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As I’ve mentioned in the past I currently work in hospitality, and it does mean at times I have to take deep breaths and suck it up when confronted by an acutely moronic customer. I wish I could say that these times are rare.

although it’s ok to hate the ones on channel 10, all right thinking persons should do so.

I was listening to one of the last editions of The Religion Report on Radio National the other day on my way to work (see the November Issue for my outraged rant about the axing of this program).

This particular program was discussing the concept of Love Thy Neighbour, which is the summation of Christianity. For those of you who thought Christianity was all about casting homosexuals to the burning hellfire and getting all horrified about fellatio, I refer you to Matthew 22:36 – 40.

Religious persecution has been responsible for some of the greatest slaughters in human history. Somehow, your belief that perhaps the Pope wasn’t in control of your day to day affairs was enough reason for me to round you up with thousands of other heretics and put you to the sword.

I don’t get religion, I really don’t.

I don’t just mean the convert-or-die jihadists or the bible thumping televangelist nutbags, because no-one outside their own little cults ever really gets them.

They didn’t know this for a fact, but there were apparently well-informed shamans or priests who said it was so. They believed it because they were told.

I believe the sun’s going to come up every morning, and I believe that it’s because the Earth is a huge spinning ball of rock orbiting the Sun, which is a massive ball of burning gas. I don’t know this for a fact, because I’ve never seen the Earth from space, but I believe it because plenty of people have seen it, and there are dozens of cool devices that have travelled all over the solar system taking pictures. I believe it because they told me, showed me and proved it to me.

If this is a crutch, mine is broken.

Okay, I agree that that picture floating aroud the internet of George Dubya and chimpanzees pulling EXACTLY the same faces IS incredibly persuasive evidence for evolution; however, it's just not quite enough for me.