So here’s the problem: what allowances do we have to make for God in things like democracy? Medical advancement? Football??

Well, it’s Saturday, so we need to be profound. No point fucking about with the trivia when there’s big shit to consider.

In Iran they’re having what they loosely call ‘an election’. What the rest of the world and apparently about 70% of Iranians call ‘a joke’. Because to stand for president over there you have to be ‘approved’ by a committee of guardians. Who, basically, tell everyone who God would approve of. Because they know. So anyone who might, kind of, actually make life a little more easy, or even more bearable for that poor, long-suffering population, is immediately rejected. Or murdered. They do ‘rejection’ in a big way over there. And you end up voting for… (drum roll…) THE GEEZER WITH THE DRESS AND HAT AND BIG BEARD!!!! Hail the new president. Looks just like the old one. Sounds just like the old one. Increases the long list of “you can’t…s” to eliminate a few more freedoms and, see ya in 5 years.

Gene therapy, genetic engineering, contraception, terminations and a whole array of other massive advances are generally ‘banned by God’. It’s not a question of mere ethics, they have non-religious committees to do all that. But when the result comes, it inevitably goes against something, somewhere in the bible, Koran, Talmud, holy book of someone, and gets mired down in a moral maze. Bit like euthanasia. Everyone loves the idea of it for themselves, but God’s not happy about it, so as yet, they won’t even discuss it in parliament.

Only football bucked the trend. They never used to play on Sundays. The Sabbath, for Christians in a Christian country. And then, less to do with multi-culturalism, much more to do with Sky tv and commercial opportunity, God was voted down on that one. Well, ‘that God’ was. My God was pleased because he won’t go to football on a Saturday but could now go to see his beloved Spurs on a Sunday.

I’d just like to say in His defence, God’s not really the problem. It’s a question of who interprets what they think their God would like according to how extreme they want to take it. Once you start forcing the will of God onto people you risk ending up like Iran. Where they’re so unbelievably religious they’re prepared to kill, maim and torture in the name of a God who would send them all straight to hell for doing so.

More importantly, England couldn’t even beat Scotland last night. In fact, were lucky not to lose. I mean… I mean… Scotland. Holy shit. Different ‘holy’, obviously.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx