Punch `em in the throat!

Huzzah! A review of Dawkins’ new tv show which makes my heart all warm n’ such.

Welcome to a dangerous new era – the Unlightenment – in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They’re everywhere – reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about “chakras” and “healing energies”, praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping these people round the face till they behave like adults, we encourage them. We’ve got to respect their beliefs, apparently.

Well I don’t. “Spirituality” is what cretins have in place of imagination. If you’ve ever described yourself as “quite spiritual”, do civilisation a favour and punch yourself in the throat until you’re incapable of speaking aloud ever again. Why should your outmoded codswallop be treated with anything other than the contemptuous mockery it deserves?

More and more I’ve been seeing people willing to defend the Enlightenment, the single greatest achievement of human culture, against the pomos and religious. Still, it’s just scattered articles and barely broadcast TV programs. Even if they include the word “codswallop”, they still aren’t enough and we’re losing. Presumably we need nukes. I’ll work on it. I think I can pull off fission. If anyone can do fusion leave instructions in the comments. I know you need that maulti-laser thing for the thermonuclear ones so I’ve been stocking up on laser pointers.