The Atheist Commando

So yesterday, being Easter Sunday, I took part in my annual Easter tradition of spending 15 minutes in the car park of my local big shopping centre.  It always gives me a good laugh to watch the streams of cars and people arrive at the front door of the two major supermarkets on the estate and then scratch their heads in amazement when they find them closed.  "Sorry, its closed" I said to one Muslim woman. "Its Easter Sunday and in case you have forgotten, Britain is still a Christian country". I'm not sure her English was good enough understand me, but the very old English guy certainly did.  "Of course its closed mate" I said to him. "Its Easter Sunday, shops are legally required to be closed on Easter Sunday".  "Really?" He said "Well how long has that been going on then?" Well, perhaps he has not lived in the UK much. However, I have lived here all my life and I've always known that. No one expects big shops to be ...

I came across this annual recently and it reminded me that I used to devour the TV21 comic that came out every week. This was published by the makers of Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlett, all the shows I used to love watching as a kid.  These puppet shows were all set in the 21st Century, where everyone lived in gadget-filled houses and wore sharp suits and angular glasses, while driving flying cars. Life it seemed was going to be great when we got to the 21st Century. It was going to be modern and enlightened.   Well, here we are. Already in the first quarter of it, and what do we have?  No sharp suits, just loose tracksuits produced by slave labour in countries like Bangladesh. Gadget filled houses? Well, yes we have them.  I have two laptops, four tablets and several Alexa devices. But the houses are still pretty ordinary.  But do we have enlightenment? Sadly not. Thanks to weak minded politicians, we are still dominated by religion.  And ...