JADB

It is a sad world when a mother-to-be will fatalistically accept being raped and consider herself fortunate that her rapist deigned to use a condom in the process.

Add to that the rapist’s apparent utter conviction that he has the right to rape the woman, since “This is not a Bruce Willis movie. You haven’t done anything wrong. But it’s your bad luck. This is the new South Africa.”

In what kind of country are criminals so brazenly arrogant that they — quite noisily — murder a woman and the proceed to ransack her neigbour’s house, pausing to rape her neighbour; quite assured that the police would never be able to touch them.

And then the South African government would like to have its citizens believe that crime’s on the decrease in their country? Not likely.

To my wife: Sorry Girl, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be going back to Gordon’s Bay again anytime soon…

Yes, I know it’s been a hell of a long time.

Yes, I know I should have gotten to my Blog before this.

No, I don’t really have an excuse. Well other than a sense of ennui. Yes, I know that’s not a real excuse…

Having established that, what would be reason enough to drag me back to the Blog, then, I hear you ask expectantly.

Before I get to that, I will have to share something which is in fairly common use in our home. Based on the saying “Go big, or go Home”, the Girl has started merely saying: “They’re obviously home!”, thereby implying the “’cause they sure went big, there…”

Okay, enough hedging. Found on “The Scotsman” is this little piece: Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer.

Now, to be honest, as a button-displaying (as opposed to “card-carrying”) Pastafarian I have long held the belief that the Creationists need to have a quiet word about the purity of their supply with their dealers, but even I would not go quite as big as that.

From the Article:

Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a “destructive myth” had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.

He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a “kind of paganism” because it harked back to the days of “nature gods” who were responsible for natural events.

To which I have to add with my tongue firmly in my cheek: “Amen Brother”.

It’s starting to look like that, if you want to be a Christian, being a Catholic might be one of the more enlightened choices around.

And the irony in that is quite staggering.