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. In a world where progress in recognition of minorities is overshadowed by irreversible damage to the environment and Malthusian population problems and where an entire continent, Africa, is dying, what does the Timothy plan do?
It boycotts Amazon for having a gay employees group, protests against a breast cancer scanner being donated to a Planned Parenthood group and describes Cosmopolitan as “one of the most blatantly aggressive soft porn magazines”. The fund has no problem with companies who destroy the environment or make weapons, however
I find much of the Bible immoral, by today’s standards, and don’t subscribe to its message any more than that of Amun-Ra. But reading it, the one overriding aspect of the New Testament is that it its fairly anti-violence and very socialist.
To pretend to be a Christian and decide to become a mutual funds manager, is slightly amusing in an ironic way. To donate to the Timothy Fund means that you have missed the entire essence of the message of Christiany and are perverting it to your own ends. In short, you need to RTFB – read the fucking bible.
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