You can always rely on the religious fruitloops to provide some light relief.
A UK Independence Party (Ukip) councillor has become the latest member to cause uproar, after blaming recent storms and floods on an act of God after the Government decided to legalise gay marriage.
“I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same sex marriage Bill,” wrote David Silvester, who quit the Conservative party in protest at David Cameron’s decision to support same-sex marriage.
“But he went ahead”, he continued, “despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.”
The Henley-on-Thames councillor said the country had been “beset by storms” since the passage of the bill, which he blamed on Mr Cameron acting “arrogantly against the Gospel”.
Yeah, right, because a mythical deity invented by bronze age tribesmen really does punish a whole country for the decisions made by one individual.
Unfortunately, this crank will be held us as an example of Ukip as a whole – so there’s a kind of irony there. Farage has his work cut out, I think.
And, no, whatever one’s view of gay marriage, it didn’t create the storms, FFS! As one comment below the line points out, the inconsistency of such hogwash is easily dismissed:
It is curious that Belfast and many other parts of Northern Ireland had massive rainfall and that there was a great alert about flooding in Belfast, and yet there has been no equality of marriage legislation passed in Northern Ireland.
However where I live, in Brighton & Hove, there are many gay people who wish to be married and yet there is no flooding.
Quite so, but such logic is beyond those who look to magical beings in the sky for answers to the great questions of life, the universe and everything.
As I said at Harry’s Place (the blog) “He’s entitled to his opinion, no matter how nutty it is. After all, there are some out there who still believe in multiculturalism, diversity, socialism and other failed dogmas as well. Hell there are some who continue to believe islam is a religion of peace, all evidence to the contrary…”
Indeed, and he should be ready for the ridicule that follows.
In fairness to Mr. Silvester, his deity of choice does have something of a reputation for punishing entire populations for the behaviour of just one person. Just ask the ancient Egyptians how much influence they had over their pharaohs’ whims.
Then again, this is the same deity who allegedly got some poor *married* woman pregnant – making Christian* views on adultery more than a tad hypocritical – and then failed utterly to pay a penny towards child maintenance. Oh, and he put his son through torture, before telling him that although being nailed to a cross would kill him, this would only be a temporary setback: unlike his fellow victims, he’d feel as right as rain in about three days.
(Which also makes the whole “died for our sins” bollocks a bit hard to take too; in what way did he actually “die”?)
* (and Islamic, given that they believe in Jesus Christ too. They just consider him another prophet, like Moses or Mohammed, rather than some kind of demigod.)
Not only that, after dying and coming back to life, he could fly, for he ascended into the firmament. Good trick that. Or complete hogwash depending on whether you believe all that superstitious piffle or not.
Just looked out of the window and it’s raining. Again.
Damn that Boy George, damn him, I say!
Are you sure it’s Boy George and not George Michael, or the now departed Freddie Mercury – oh, or Elton John…. The list goes on…. There’s an awful lot of sinners to smite, it seems.
I think he is delightfully bonkers, but he is far less scary that Ed Miliband, who really does believe some of the stuff he comes out with makes his suitable to run our country.
Oh, I agree, Marxism is a very, very dangerous religion.
OXYMORON
ALL religions are dangerous – & based on blackmail … so of course communism is dangerous.
So are all the others.