Dark Thoughts

I was listening to "God Told Me" by Paul Kelly on Triple J this morning, and it got me to thinking about the role that God plays in so much of the violence around the world. God seems to be one of those unquestionable things. Everything else is up for scientific scrutiny, but not religion, for some strange reason.

Many violent acts around the world are done under the guise of god's word, or as the voice of Allah, or some other deity. These acts that are so fundamentally opposed to the religious views and teachings of nearly every religion on earth, are done in the name of some hitheto mythical deity. Listen People, IT'S NOT GOD TELLING YOU TO DO THESE ACTS!!! The voices you hear in your head aren't god, they are your own deranged psyche willing wanton death and destruction on the world.

Unfortunately when someone gets to a position of power and starts talking about voices in their head, or a direct hotline to god, laughing at them for the fool that they are is pretty ineffectual, and if they have big guns, then it can be downright deadly. Why are religious wacko's afforded more respect than any other wacko who hears voices.

"My imaginary friend, Milko told me to kill those people!" - Man get's locked up indefinately
"God told me to kill those people!" - Man get's elected president or becomes a hero...

If that's the way it's gonna be, then god told me that you must all send me money to upgrade my studio. Music is a thing of beauty, inspired by god don't y'all know...