Returning from a camping holiday I see that the E&E letters page has been taken over with some story about girls graffitiiiing. There have been loads of letters. Maybe even loads and loads.
However, among these letters (which, invariably, are achingly obvious calls to “string ‘em up”) there remains a triplet of correspondence worthy of a brief posting.
We start with John Watts, who you may remember as one of the “bible as literal truth” group. Following his confused ramblings about whales and polar bears, a number of Exeter’s more literate writers joined forces to mock him. Today he returns to retort and riposte his philosophical foes. Sadly for John his reply remains within the same class of persuasive argument as that purported by 4-year olds, the permanently stoned and Daily Sport editorials.
It puzzles me that people can't believe in the 'virgin birth' when they can believe in cloning.
Says John. The problem here is that John seems be working to a different lexicon, one in which the word fact is slightly antonymic.
Life after death was proven by Jesus, who died on the cross, which is fact, and came back to life two days later, which is also fact.
This kind of reminds me of my A-Level Further Maths paper where I had to prove an equation of Euler or somesuch. Not having a clue, I hoped that by stringing together my falsified scribblings with words such as “hence”, “therefore” and “QED”, they would somehow be misconstrued as being right. They weren’t.
However, what do I know? In 2000 years a religion may have started worshipping the Sheep God Dolly, the members of which will write to a local rag claiming that she did once exist, whilst being roundly ridiculed by a smart-arse blogger.
Talking of sheep, my nemesis Colin Richey has been writing in again.
GAY PEOPLE SHOULD STOP THEIR BLEATING
I neither defend the rights of gays or "straight" people when I say I am getting fed up with the homosexual community continually bleating on about how they are discriminated against.
No matter how many times I read the sentence, I don’t get it. But that aside, Colin confuses me more by his use of the word straight in quotations. He does it again a couple of paragraphs later:
I firmly believe that organisations that run churches or owners of hotels and restaurants or B &Bs etc, have a perfect right to bar anyone from their premises be they gay or so called "straight" people.
Who are these “so-called straight people”? People identified by Colin as being a bit fruity? Or those who aren’t perhaps secure in their own sexuality and suppress it by writing ignorant and hateful letters to the Echo?
Finally, a ray of hope for the current problems in the Middle East. Sadly, none of our major politicians are likely to take heed of the sage advice delivered by John Phelps.
I believe the best solution to bring peace to the Middle East would be to relocate the Jewish population of Israel to one or more of the relatively sparsely inhabited southern states in the USA.
Finally some level-headed thinking on the world’s toughest problem. Take 5 million people and stick them in Alabama. Yee ha! And as John points out,
Logistically the transportation of four to five million Jews to the USA should not present an insurmountable problem.
If we can put a cloned sheep on the moon, surely we can move an entire population 4000 miles? All we need is a another roadmap and a big boat. Now where did I put Noah’s number?
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