Thank GOD I am an Atheist!
admin on Apr 12th 2008
I think it is probably time I stopped watching the news. Every time I watch I re-affirm the knowledge that the human race is doomed to extinction. In the movie Men In Black there is a quote that goes something like this. “A person is smart, People are stupid” I’m sure I butchered the quote, but its close enough to get my point across. Watching the news just makes me realize how little the collective human intelligence amounts to. The strength of a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Likewise the cumulative intellegence of the human race is only equal to the stupidest person.
Through most of last week the news was going on about some polygamist compound the police broke up. Apparently they got a phone tip from some little underage girl who was forced to “get married” so some bastard could rape her under the guise of his religeous beliefs. The very concept baffles my mind. I remember a similar story in the news where some mormon kids from B.Y.U. were expelled. They were going to Nevada to get married so they could have sex without breaking thier religeon’s rules, and then having the marrige anulled the next day.
The whole concept of a religeous belief is supposed to help guide people who may have trouble making the right decisions without guidance. There really isn’t much point to it if you decide to do what any intelligent person can obviously tell is wrong and then obfuscate the religeous rules until you justify what you are doing. I guess I’m just old fashioned, but I believe that you either choose to do good or do evil. The choice you make doesn’t change if you wrap up what you are doing with a bunch of religeous crap. Its still either good or its evil.
What upset me enough to take the time to write this post on my blog wasn’t the whole polygamist thing. They’ve been caught and stopped. One can only hope that sufficient punishment is dealt out. The thing that got under my skin is the stupid lawyer who was on the news trying to say they needed to throw out all the evidence because the “rape” took place in a temple. Some Legal mumbo jumbo that could have a misconstrued legal basis. I’ll go back to my statement before. Either you chose to do good or you choose to do evil. I don’t care where there is a loophole in the law anyone with even an ounce of self respect would have realized that the argument was just plain wrong, and would never have uttered a word.
For this and this alone I belive the Skumbag lawyer should be tried as an accessory to rape. If he is honestly low enough to actually make that argument knowing full well that the police had a warrent and had found evidence within the temple, he truly is an accessory to rape. Truthfully I know they wouldn’t be able to convict him. In all reality the law only really fits in about 95% of the cases. There is always some a-hole who figures out to do something so stupid that the law just can’t have enough caveats to cover it. I used to belive it was the judges job to fill in for that other 5% with common sense. After the McDonalds coffie cup incident I can’t even belive in that.
The only way I’ll ever find peace with this is if some kind soul decides to handle the situation Al capone style. The Skumbag lawyer can take a dirt nap along with all his bastard rapist buddies. Then maybe someone who chooses to do good can find a loophole in the law to let good old Al off the hook since he would be the only one doing the right thing. At the end of all this, All I can say is Thank GOD I am an Atheist. My mind just can’t handle all the backward religeous rules that make right wrong and vise versa whenever the situation demands.
For the record: At no point does forcing a fourteen year old girl to have sex with you ever become right no matter how many bibles you bend her over!