Sunday Sermon:Pitch Black Into Naked Religion

Introduction

This is a ten-year-old story from my blog that is getting a lot of hits. It is a bit all over the place but you might find it entertaining.

Sunday Sermon: Pitch Black Into Naked Religion

Apologies for this being slightly ranty rather than positive, although it's just some things that have recently crossed my mind brought to the fore by last night's dream. Given the nature of the post, I thought Randy Newman's "God's Song" would be appropriate.

I slept well last night but woke up from a dream that I remembered some of. It didn't finish, and nothing bad happened but it was a pre-disaster scenario which could be dealt with with certain precautions. This is the dream as it happened. Basically, I was is a Pitch Black scenario (Pitch Black being the best sci-fi "B" Movie since Alien starring Vin Diesel as Riddick). I was in the deserted outpost building with the knowledge from diaries that were strewn about that the previous occupants had been wiped out by the inhabitants of this planet. I was with a group of people who sounded like Eastern European Bond villains, and they had returned from a reconnaissance trip with what looked like tatty Russian dolls about two feet high. I knew from the diaries that these were eggs of the vicious creatures that had destroyed the previous occupant. I said that we had to get the m outside immediately. Then the argument started.:

Them: "How do you know they are dangerous?"

Me: "Look at the evidence, there has been violence here and the diaries have drawings of eggs and descriptions of the creatures that hatched and probably killed them all"

Them: "How do you know that these are the same"

Me: "Even if they're not we should err on the side of caution, and leave them outside then we are safe and we can observe with a lesser amount of danger"

Them: "We think they are cute, so they're staying"

Me: "That is not a good idea, being cute in a hostile environment is not a sensible objective stance to take"

Them: "They're staying, we think they'll be fine"

Me: "What do you base that on?"

Them: "They look cute"

Then I woke up, and thought, this argument is a lot like religious faith (Mainly Creationists) vs Science. Science always questions itself and that's how truths are discovered, and extreme religion uses this to deny science while refusing to question its own belief. I know it was a laboured tale to illustrate a basic point but I've met many religious people who use it as a moral supportive code and do not force it others or question others beliefs. My problem is when religion is used as a bludgeon to spread ignorance (ie Creationism).

Anyway, the second vaguely religious point was something I noticed from this Facebook post here. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden they were happy, God was happy and all was great until Satan got Even to eat the apple and they discovered SHAME and started wearing makehift clothes which got God angry and he chucked them out of the Garden. So using that scenario wearing of clothes is and obvious sign of Satanism, because God wanted us to be naked.

So why is there such a furore when we see a nipple, willy or pussy or bum? If God's will were to be carried out we should all surely be naked. Actually, there is the practicality of weather and keeping dry and warm, and let's face clothes can make a person with the most unappealing body look good. It's that that if we see someone "exposed" there's far more uproar than a knifing or shooting, so if you do see someone either laugh, appreciate or ignore, don't act like a Daily Mail reader.

OK that's my Sunday Sermon, have a brilliant day everyone, I'm enjoying my holiday (and fully dressed)

Conclusion

Thank you for reading and hope you have not found my words and pictures too offensive.