Religion is like Pornography sez PZ. Indeed, they both leave a nasty aftertaste. No amount of sugar coating can rectify what happens to be a fundamental perversion of the intellect. PZ is taking the offensive one step further. The offensive is necessary when you consider how entrenched religion is in our society and minds.
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Context. It can make all the difference in the world. The word "suck" can describe the action of a vacuum cleaner or a sex act that was illegal in the state of North Carolina until 2003.
Last week's Casual Fridays study was the most popular ever: Despite its grueling 58-question length, over 750 respondents completed the entire thing. We got so much data on foul language that I probably won't finish writing all of it up today.
This is a warning. The clips below are offensive. The second one I've had sitting on my text editor for a couple of weeks and had decided it was too offensive to use in the Sermonette. Whatever some of you may think (assuming you think), this space is not designed to be offensive to religion.
Thanks for that link, which I've just quoted here
It's refreshing to here support for atheism from someone in a society which is commonly regarded by outsiders as being inherently spiritual. Whatever the hell 'spiritual' means.
Although I should say that I picked that analogy specifically because I think we should also be tolerant of pornography, in the same way: it doesn't make you a better person, but if it floats your boat, OK. Let's just make sure the participants aren't abused in any way, and maybe we should help parents keep it away from kids.
Edward (of the first comment): That is funny...India has more than a billion population of a species that also farts (apart from being "inherently spiritual"). Point is, I guess you have met the wrong samples from India... ;)
Just to drive my point, I could put links for some of my blog posts here, that trashes "religion", but then it would become a "shamless plug"... ;)
PZ: I guess it should be the other way... we should keep those parents who indulge in "pornography" away from the children...
It seems a good opportunity to mention the Carvaka and Lokayata, an Indian atheist and materialist movement preceding the classical age of Greece, and lasting at least 2000 years.