Religious Delusions

I am sure that during the last few days Richard Dawkins has been tearing his hair out while running around saying to everyone "I told you so!" Religion has been indulging in another rush of madness that we are supposed to take seriously, while nobody has the guts to say "Bollocks" to the lot of them. I don't know where to start. We seem to have a collection of stories that just prove that much of what Dawkins says to us is right. Although it is belief in religion that is the problem rather than belief in God.
Perhaps I will start with Stephen Hawking who has suggested in a book to be published this week that God did not create the Universe. This may or may not be true and frankly I would not have thought that 150 years after Charles Darwin it made much difference to religious beliefs - except to fundamentalists - but then fundamentalists are coming more and more to the fore in every variation of the God Delusion. Hawking says that it is possible to conceive of multiple Universes that can co-exist and continue to co-exist. This has been widely condemned by religious leaders here, there and everywhere.
At the same time a small fundamentalist Christian Evangelical group in Florida is suggesting that on 11th September we should have a Burn the Koran day to commemorate the destruction of the twin towers in 2001. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Centre - that was, until yesterday, unknown to all of us - believes that the Koran is an evil book and we should demonstrate our opposition to its existence. His proposed action has been condemned around the world and by President Obama. Of course, various noddy governments in the Middle East and other areas have publicised Pastor Jones's mini-group and encouraged their brain-washed masses to take to the streets and burn American flags, etc. Pastor Jones is an odd character and like most fundamentalists, ever so slightly mad. His version of Christianity requires him to go around with an armed escort and to sit at his desk with a gun at the ready. He is a nutter and he should have been ignored. As it is, his infamy has gone round the world. Of course everybody is screaming about insults to Islam, etc. etc. A nutter wants us to burn a book. Please, please, just print some more and carry on.
As this Koran story was doing the rounds, we received some helpful advice from the Vatican. For years it has been clear that the Islamists have been encouraging Muslims everywhere to breed to help in their plans to overwhelm the world. The Catholics have been at it for years as well. Now, a spokesman for the Vatican has suggested that Catholics should get to work breeding even more to counter the Islamist surge and catch up. This is particularly important in Catholic countries where, mysteriously, the birth rate in the indigenous population is static or has been falling. Now at a time when the world is struggling with economic problems, where 65% live on the bread-line, the last thing we want is for religious loonies to invite us to increase world population as fast as possible. Still, I suppose we have to remember that in 1994 is was an unholy alliance of Muslims and Catholics that in Egypt scuppered the UN conference on population control. These fundamentalists are still living so far in the past that population control does not matter. Has any of them got a clue as to how we will control climate change and feed everyone while they knock out more and more babies to exacerbate all our problems.
Richard Dawkins suggests that God does not exist. It may or may not be true. What is true, however, is that religionists exist everywhere and never will they see the error of their ways. A long time ago, I suggested that the 21st century was going to be one when Islam spread like a disease around the world and Islamic fundamentalism would be at the root of almost all the wars that were fought in every region of our planet. It is more than 800 years since the Crusades took place, when Christians were pitted against Muslims. Have we learned nothing in those intervening years? It certainly seems that we have not.
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