Saturday 4 July 2009

Win a free holiday to Mecca, the Vatican, Jerusalem or Tibet!!

Turkish Game Show looks to convert atheists

I particularly like this bit:
"We don't approve of anyone being an atheist. God is great and it doesn't matter which religion you believe in. The important thing is to believe,"


Roughly translated as:
"We don't approve of anyone using free thought, rational enquiry and reasoning to come to their own conclusions as to what is true or not. Belief in God among the people is useful for the people in charge as it makes them docile, so it doesn't matter which religion you believe in. The important thing is to abandon your critical thinking, your personal freedom, your 'soul' (in a purely metaphorical sense), your integrity and your independence and instead, swallow our dogma, donate to our churches, fall in line with what our religious leaders say, and settle on easy, lazy and ultimately false answers to some of the most difficult questions we face, rather than taking a scientific approach in order to find out, broaden our understanding of the world around us, and use our increased understanding to help raise the quality of life for people around the world."


Saying that though, I might apply! How much can I win? Eternal life? Awesome!!