Britain versus The Pope

[BeBMan]

But religious people never committed suicide!

[Kidlicious]

@ the idea religion is what stops you from killing yourself.

Have you ever heard the song "Losing My Religion?"

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

So Michael Stipe has the definitive answers to the meaning of life now?

I will now sum Kid up in 4 words-

Mental, mental, chicken oriental.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ages that were "well noted for virtue" tended to seem that way due to nostaglia rather than factual basis.

Imran gets a cookie.

Surprised that Laz would believe in historical progress.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You haven't been paying attention.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Does he ever?

[Ben Kenobi]

I was certain he was a Hobbesian.

I'm rather disappointed that historical filth was simply a way of showing how we are so much better today than folks back then.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I would be too. If that was true. Which it isn't.

[Ben Kenobi]

So why are you asserting that rising levels of agnosticism are at all significant? You've been relentless at showing that the levels of faith from before are inaccurate.

If this is true, then people are about as faithful as they always are, which is not very.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This sums up up your problem, Ben. You are looking for a grand, unifying message and moral underpinning the Filth I write.

There isn't one.

I randomly amass huge quantities of stuff about the funny things people did with their genitals, or the most hilariously outrageous tales of human corruption, because it makes me laugh in a number of ways. Then I share them. There is no underpinning philosophy beyond that- it's just muckraking for giggles.

Your point about levels of faith is completely moot because I've never done a Filth about it. Sure, I've written about corrupt Popes and Priests, but then again I've written about corrupt Kings, Emperors, Viziers, Premiers and every other type of ruler too. They're all targets. Their respective levels of faith don't interest me. At heart I'm an apatheist- I only take an interest in religion because it keeps getting forced into the secular world- as in this thread's example.

[Ben Kenobi]

Well fair enough.

You still do strike me as a Hobbesian.

I quite enjoy your 'Filth' columns irrespective of the target, I always learn something new.