The northlondonhippy

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the pub­li­ca­tion of cer­tain car­toons in Den­mark (and now many other Euro­pean coun­tries), which have upset some of our friends in the Mus­lim world.

No doubt, you’ve also by now heard about the ferry that sank in the Red Sea while trav­el­ling to Egypt from Saudi Ara­bia. The pas­sen­gers were mainly the very reli­gious, return­ing from the Hajj.

You have also have heard that these car­toons, which satirise the Islamic faith have spurned vio­lent reac­tions in the Arab world and some fairly scary demon­stra­tions here in the west.

Now there are some that might draw some con­clu­sions over these unre­lated events, sug­gest­ing that god didn’t like how the Mus­lim world was react­ing to these draw­ings by send­ing them a fairly clear mes­sage in the form of a ship­ping disaster.

But not me. I would never sug­gest such a thing.

Why?

Because I reject the con­cept of god. Because god, if he did exist, prob­a­bly would have a sense of humour. If you don’t believe me, just look at your­self naked in the mir­ror sometime.

If there was a god, he wouldn’t get angry about car­toons. He wouldn’t sink a ferry either.

I think we’ll dis­cover some­where along the line that a human error of some sort caused that ferry to go down.

Any­way, if there is going to be an all-seeing, all-knowing, all pow­er­ful god, I’d nom­i­nate myself in the role. I’d be a great god, you’d all learn to love me!

So don’t be sur­prised when peo­ple far cra­zier than me start mak­ing this con­nec­tion between the car­toons and the ferry. They will and yes, Pat Robert­son, I’m glanc­ing in your direction!