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experience. Maybe you prefer dreams. Maybe you want your head to go to that special place where God wreaks vengeance on anyone whose lifestyle you don’t personally happen to approve of, and where Jesus strokes you like a puppy dog. Well, if that’s the case then you might as well take drugs, because you’re already on the most dangerous drug there is.
    Absolute certainty is a drug that can make people do the strangest things. It’s the devil’s drug, and you don’t want to be around anyone who’s on that stuff, because they’re no longer in control. You can see it in their eyes, the drug is controlling them, so that suddenly no action is too callous or too spiteful or too cruel to be justified.
    And if you get hooked on it, and if you keep taking it, you too could wake up one day so full of righteousness that suddenly the only thing that makes sense to you any more is somebody else’s death.
    And you’ll realise that your mind is no longer your best friend.
    So if somebody offers you absolute certainty, they’re going to make it sound attractive, and you will be tempted, but just say no. Your mind, and your children’s minds, will thank you for it, and that really is an absolute certainty. Peace.

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Religion in the UK
    April 17, 2007
    Hi everyone. I’ve been asked by ptolemi* to say a few words about religion here in Britain.
    ont color="#000">Well, as you probably know, we’re a Christian country like you are in America. We’re not quite as Christian as you are because, after all, you’ve still got the death penalty, but traditionally we practise a form of Christianity almost as psychopathically disengaged from the message of Christ as you do, although nowadays we’re more of a multifaith society. And what that means in practice is that everybody wants respect but nobody wants to give any, so we all get offended at the drop of a hat, or a turban – it doesn’t make much difference. Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews. Everybody, it seems, has some sort of beef (except the Hindus, obviously).
    Everybody complains in Britain that religion doesn’t get enough respect, and yet there are sixteen churches within a ten minute walk of my house, not to mention mosques and temples and synagogues and all the other assorted wendy houses of the soul that cover this land from top to bottom like a plague of boils. And yet religion doesn’t get enough respect?
    It pays no tax on corporate profits, it’s allowed to indoctrinate children from birth, yet it doesn’t get enough respect?
    Well, excuse me, but even the royal family doesn’t get quite that much respect, and they’re treated like royalty.
    A third of all the schools in Britain are single faith schools, financially supported by the government.
    Teachers are against this. In fact, just this week teachers demanded a ban on all faith schools because they encourage segregation and prejudice, so naturally the government is creating even more of them, because our prime minister is a well-known Christian hypocrite who has publicly endorsed the teaching of creationism in schools.
    Meanwhile, schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons, in case Muslim children who have been taught to hate Jews feel compelled to say something anti-Semitic. We don’t want to embarrass the Muslim kids by showing up their parents as hate-mongering bigots, because that would be disrespectful to their faith.
    I’m just wondering how long before we start referring to it as the Holocaust theory, for the sake of community relations.
    Christians, meanwhile, are becoming a lot more vocal here in Britain because they’re worried about the growth of Islam. They don’t want to see the country swamped by a new foreign religion. They’d rather keep the old foreign religion, the one that stole the pagans’ festivals and burned them all as witches in the name of Jesus the merciful.
    The Church of England is doing its best to keep the flame alive, so to speak. The Church is very much