Opium of the people

It was Friday morning (just gone), had a busy day ahead of me but it was nearly the weekend and had a bit of a spring in my step, well as much as I could muster at 8 in the morning, listening to Britney on my Ipod; cold but happy. That is until I set eyes on a certain advertisement on the tube..you know the adverts that I'm talking about, if you live in London you tend to miss them, they are normally advertising phone offers giving you 100 minutes to phone Uganda for just £5! YAY! Anyway this one was different...


This is obviously not taken on the tube - it's the same message on a London bus.

How depressing is that? Don't get me wrong I'm not the most religious in the world (I've not been to church since I decided that the vicar at my church was actually the devil in disguise and also I learnt that being gay wasn't the most accepted of things) but I am by no means a fully fledged atheist, I guess I just don't really think about it either way - I'm probably more ignorant than anything else.

I hate having religious folk ram the bible down my throat and it's common knowledge that religion has caused many a war in the past and continues to do so but for a lot of people (including some of my family and close friends) it is still something that keeps them a float, something that helps them deal with life and all the manure it throws at you sometimes.

I don't get what an "atheist campaign" is setting out to even achieve? Are they hoping Mrs.Smith, 72 years old who has outlived a lot of her friends will look up and think"gosh they have a point, I'm not making any more jams for my church fete...oh no...all these years I've been fooled" - what would that gain?

What makes it even worse is that it smuggly states at the bottom that the adverts have been paid for by public donations - is there not a more needy cause?!

Anyway I am at risk of going into rant mode and well I don't want to, I don't want this blog to turn into some sort of political sounding board - I think you can all gather that's not me, it would also make me no different to the atheists or religious nuts.

I just want world peace and everyone to get on and...actually my mate Martin has just got here so I want to crack open a bevvy..."There might be a God, there might not be, so stop preaching either way, have some more free minutes to Uganda and have a great day" - Now that's what I want to read on the way to work.