Only Comedians Fight Religion
Remember that line from a Bon Jovi song: “Darling, you give love a bad name.” After yet another terroristic attack, this time in Brussels, isn’t it time we said: “Islam, you give religion a bad name.” But of course, “secularism” and political correctness won’t allow that to happen any time soon. But things have gotten so bad that this Dilbert strip isn’t too far off most people’s idea of that religion anyway: Remember water boarding, that (in)famous form of torture devised by the US after 9/11? Sarah Palin, a religious nut job, who was the Vice-Presidential candidate in the last US election, had then remarked: “Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.” Upon which the comedian Jon Stewart made this brilliant remark: “That is Sarah Palin giving a speech where she is somehow conflating a sacrament of her faith with torture, in order to somehow bring the fear of God to religious extremists.” Ha ha! ...