I have kept the secret for fourteen years. I remember the exact day when I discovered that I was finally becoming physically what I had been becoming ontologically for the previous quarter-century : June 6, 2003; I was 66. On Friday, the sixth day of the week in the sixth month of the year, I discovered that I incarnated the Beast of the Apocalypse, whose number is 666.
The first thing I noticed, in the shower at six minutes past six that morning, were the two tiny excroissances on my shoulders and the more visible ones on either side of my forehead. But it was my feet that shocked me the most : they were turning into cloven hoofs !
It’s not easy to hide morphological modifications like these. But I had time to get ready to adapt to what I could see would soon be the body of a demon. My face and hands remained unchanged, though both bear the signs of the four score I now have behind me. When I’m Home Alone, I kick off my oversized shoes and doff the crazy hat and cloak I wear in public. When I’m writing a post for my Blog, I need to be comfortable . . .
This is not the sort of thing one brags about. I mean for my family and (few) friends, it is hard enough obliging them to put up with my anti-social, public atheism. They would keel over if they saw me in all my diabolical glory.
So why am I Coming Out like this now ? The reason is simple. I have written the above to string alone those arch-enemies of me and my Blog, who, reading this up to this point, have been rejoicing in this revelation of my true identity, which, be it said in passing, confirms what they have believed all along : a Franciscan priest could not morph into a militant atheist unless he were possessed by the Devil. And if the Devil exists, then so does God. Q.E.D.
Sorry, chaps, but the Devil, the Father of Lies, made me do it ! I have neither wings nor horns nor cloven hoofs. I’m just an ordinary Joe, like you, who had the good fortune to discover forty years ago that the myths of the world’s religions are as outrageously incredible as the one I just invented. On s’amuse comme on peut : people get their jollies in the weirdest ways.
RIDENDA RELIGIO
Blind Faith: Blind Folly 
Incroyable!
You almost had me convinced – but then you probably have some idea of the depth and breadth of my gullibility – like you I swallowed the Jesus myth, hook line and sinker, into my early twenties.
It would be interesting and possibly instructive to do a “credibility accounting” for the three great monotheistic religions. My guess is that Christianity would have more red ink than the other two.
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Took me forty. It’s never too late.
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Of course there would have more red ink for bible than for koran as bible count ? x 100 more pages
But red ink in bible will concern little stories, not stupid orders as in koran
I have an important question too. God is very used for curses in France and elsewhere also.
When we are angry : “bon dieu de bon dieu »
When we are surprised, amazed, frightened ; “oh mon Dieu”
What can replace ?
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Obscenities in any language are a common substitute for blasphemy. Putain ! Bordel ! I thought you knew that, nom de Dieu ! As for stupid orders in the Old Testament, read the Book of Leviticus …
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Laroche makes an important point nonetheless.
The Koran probably takes the kake when it comes to exhortations to Muslims to violence against those who don’t share their religion.
I think there are few if any similar exhortations in the New Testament.
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The Right Honorable Thom is right again !
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Few or none ? The fact that Franck does not answer precisely make me think that there are NONE lol
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As far as I recall, there are no such exhortations in the New Testament to do violence to others, but Jesus Himself was pretty fierce with the Scribes and Pharisees – and with people who refused to believe in Him. Remember “weeping and gnashing of teeth” ? “I have not come to bring peace but the sword” ?
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