When I got home this evening, my wife was all happy because she had made a CD for a work colleague’s parents. They had to be conferenced in on a call so they could play a sample to find out who a song was by, they liked it so much. Whereas I had been writing the misanthropic anti-religious rant below. Sometimes I am such a miserable git. So I’ve put a strike through the post – and am listening to the CD, and its making me happy. When others do stupid things in computing people say RTFM – read the fucking manual. For some people the bible is their manual but they clearly haven’t read it. CNN has a piece on mutual funds run by religious extremists which pose as ‘socially conscious investing’ a phenomenon which originated with anti-Apartheid groups. These funds, such as the Timothy Plan, have strange priorities….

More evidence that religion in America is a potentially dangerous disease: “Today’s atheists play the role that Catholics, Jews and communists have played in the past they offer a symbolic moral boundary to membership in American society” “From a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in