Bob The Baptist

Ever since knitting last Tuesday I have been thinking about a group at the table next to ours. We were at the Coffee Bean and there was a man who looked like a modern day version of John the Baptist and a table full of Narcotics Anonymous dropouts. Well, after all Rehab is for quitters. But I digress. We were looking at my Tarot Cards and we were trying to be civilized and not talk loud to interfere with the religious group, yet he kept talking louder. You know your typical Lounge Lizard Larry at a dive bar.

He was ranting on about the Book of Daniel and the NA dropouts would pop off questions like there were in a think tank! It really bothered me first because obviously these are vulnerable people and can be easily manipulated and secondly because we are constantly being barraged on television about religious terrorists and quite frankly, I don’t see the difference between us (Christians) and them (all others) anymore.

And then, as I often do, I dwelled on it for days like a dog with a bone and then I read online where Michigan wants all girls by age 12 to be required to have the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer. Yeah for modern science! Ninety percent of all cervical cancer is caused by the HPV Virus. Ninety freaking percent people! This vaccine is wonderful news for women. The Bill in Michigan hasn't even been passed yet and already the Concerned Women for America oppose this new bill. How can Concerned Women for America oppose a freaking bill to protect women? Why would a rational people not want to protect their children?

Because they are not rational people they are religious people and I bet you the Concerned Women for America is ran by a man and he can't handle the thought of little suzie getting her freak on.

Okay, so let's say she saves herself for marriage? (Which btw, is a crock. If you don’t fuck other people how will you know if you mate is any good? I'm kidding people. Please don't start a coalition on my behalf) Anyway, so she saves herself for the blessed wedding bed and he’s slept around, Einstein? Or she gets raped? Or gets slipped a rufey? Or reacts to her basic human needs and has sex? OH MY GOD!!!

Like Bob the Baptist at CB it’s completely irrational behavior. Behavior that is based on opinions that come from a BOOK that some read and view as a beautiful piece of literature and others believe in it verbatim and will let you die because of it.

Osama Bin Laden , a wealthy, intelligent, educated man who lives in a cave has a book too!

Scientific advances are a good thing people. Trust me, I know. I have epilepsy "the Holy Sickness" "the falling down sickness" the disease with a thousand names". The only other disease with more saints was the plague. Some previous treatments were trepanning, (where they drill holes in your skull to let the demons out) insane asylums and sterilizing. Eugenics started in America and Hitler copied us, that bastard. Now we get surgery or medication and can drive, vote, smoke in public and fuck like rabbbits before marriage. muwaahahahahahah.

Dammit, I lost my train of thought again.