Killing Reason
Last night I watched Killing Jesus on the National Geographic Channel.
That is, I watched as much as I could stomach. It occurred to me that if I really wanted that sort of thing I should pop along to the nearest BDSM club, where the activities depicted in the movie have the status they should have—something for consenting adults in private, not to be broadcast on public television where they could frighten children and the horses.
Why did I watch a movie that I already knew would end badly whether I watched it all or not?
Perhaps on the subconscious premise that, just as one should "know thine enemy," getting reacquainted with him from time to time might be a good idea too.
I am given to calling Islam a "stupid, savage, stinking superstition"—in large measure because it is. Watching Bill O'Reilly's resurrection of Mel Gibson made me appreciate anew how true this description is of Christianity also. We tend to think of it as a more benign force than it inherently is because civilised human beings have forced civilised norms upon it. It behoves us to remember, when justly damning Muslims for Islamatrocities in 2015, it's not that many centuries ago Christians were stoning and incinerating non-believers (and each other) with equal fervour, while the Old Testament salivates several times over gory beheadings.
Christianity and Islam are both superstitions, akin to a belief in goblins. That's why I call one Goblianity and the other Islamogoblinism. Superstitions are invariably bloodthirsty. The awareness that much more unites them than divides them is probably why Goblians have been muted in their response to the atrocities recently perpetrated by Islamogoblinites. How one longs for a Catholic prelate, resplendent in fiery red drag, to fulminate as ferociously against Islam as Bishop Fulton Sheen once did against Bolshevism! (Now there was a Goblian to be reckoned with!) It's not going to happen of course, since the Catholic Church, shamed by its paedophilia, has acquiesced like pretty much everyone else to the soft tyranny of Political Correctness.
Back to O'Lielly. I've already explained in a previous op-ed why I call him that—the lies about his own career that he peddles and still gets away with, discrediting the good things he accidentally represents. His attacks on what he calls the "Far Left" are 100% accurate and justified, but he emboldens that self-same Far Left when he shows himself to be as dishonest as they are, and he damages the cause of reason and freedom when he equates them, the Far Left, with "secularism." To be a "secularist" is to reject the supernatural—i.e., goblins, gods, ghosts and the whole superstitionist shebang. There is nothing in rejecting goblins that requires one to be a Far Left totalitarian. Quite the contrary! To reject goblins implies a commitment to reason, and a commitment to reason implies a commitment to the free exercise thereof that is anathema to goblinists and the Far Left alike.
The Goblian fable O'Lielly touts is as reliable as his claim to have heard George de Mohrenschildt's suicide shot. The idea that a goblin, out of loneliness, would create beings in its own image to keep it company while knowing it would end up damning most of them to eternal torture is as cosmically incoherent as it is unconscionably barbarous.
This Easter, may men and women of reason redouble their efforts to "kill Jesus." Not the man, since he was by all accounts a thoroughly engaging dinner companion who could do wicked things with water, but the nonsense that has been spawned in his name. Let us retrieve the sacred from the supernatural, repudiate all forms of tyranny over the minds of men, as Jefferson would have put it—and reject Bill O'Lielly's false, reason-killing dichotomy between goblinism and "secular" totalitarianism in the process. These are but two sides of the superstitionists' coinage.
