For anyone reading this who has read any of my other posts you would be forgiven for believing all I ever do with my life is hate. If you do believe this then yes, I do spend my time hating alot of things but there is also so much I love about the world, music being one of them. I've decided to just take a small amount of your time to enthuse about two musicians that I believe deserve much more recognition.
Firstly, we have John Grant. John Grant used to be in The Czars (a band you should also look up) before they split in 2004. He's a man who's had a less than perfect life having been both a cocaine addict and an alcoholic due to him being a homosexual in a Christian family. He's an absolutely fantastic musician with an ability to write beautiful songs like "Outer Space", heartbreaking songs such as "It's Easier", hugely witty songs in the form of "Jesus Hates Faggots" and from what I've seen in interviews strikes me as quite a stand up chap as well. Please pick up his solo album and even look up The Czars as well. He's really really great.
Now, I know very little about Denis Jones' past and if you look for his songs on youtube you'll be hard pressed to find anything worth watching quality wise but if you have Spotify his entire second album is on there. This guy is beyond words live but his albums are also good and are really worth a buy. He loops himself and his guitar while using effects pedals to create not only impressive but also truly beautiful music. Please look him up.
Both of these musicians deserve your money alot more than plenty of other musicians and deserve to be loved by ALOT of people. As I've said John Grant's solo stuff (and some of The Czars) is on youtube and both John Grant and Denis Jones are on Spotify. For anyone interested in buying their albums you will most likely be able to get all the albums mentioned somewhere on the internet. Please give them a listen. Thanks.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Yet Another Chance For Daily Mail Readers To Be Ignorant
Not long ago a Christian couple lost their ability to foster children in court due to their "views on homosexuality", or as I would call it, their moronic homophobic opinions based purely upon traditions that have been passed down through generations and rewritten for many many years. This post is purely my opinions on this particular news story. I want to specify now that this is in no way aimed at bashing Christianity because the majority of major religions preach a ridiculous outdated view of homosexualiy and therefore it is bashing all of them. Before you ask yes, I am an Atheist.
Owen and Eunice Jones were told that their views on homosexuality would be in conflict with the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 (common sense and decency to the smart people reading this) which is exactly what their views would do. The couple said they were not willing to tell a child that Homosexuality was morally right. How there was any further argument I do not know. This wasn't an attack on any religion whatsoever, this was the law intervening on the possible poisining of a child's mind into believing they were some how better than other people because of their sexuality or even worse, feeling conflicted and disgusting for years to come as they themselves were homosexual but were brought up in an enviroment surrounded by homophobia.
The Daily Mail obviously wrote a well thought out unbias article with the headline "Christian beliefs DO lose out to Gay Rights: Judges' ruling against devout foster couple". DID YOU HEAR THAT GUYS?? SOME WELL MEANING PEACE LOVING CHRISTIANS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO FOSTER CHILDREN PURELY FOR THEIR OUTDATED RIDICULOUS BELIEFS! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO?? NEXT THEY'LL BE TELLING ME I CAN'T CALL PEOPLE PAKIS ANYMORE! The comments on The Daily Mail website were equally hilarious. Rocketto from Italy vomited the words "Upside-down world" onto the comments page which gained the equivalent of 1046 likes on the Daily Mail website presumably because it was comprised of less than 10 words, the amount that an average Daily Mail reader can stand before they get bored and start looking for something racist. Tom Norton ended a comment of his with the phrase "The gays are not in charge of the world. God is" which only helps my argument even more Tom so thank you very much for that one.
I think the main point to be taken from this news story is that we must now be able to admit that we live in such a society that is further thinking than the traditional values followed by religion, Christianity being the particular example this time. Many would argue that regardless of what these children were told or taught at a younger age they would then themselves get out into the world and realise they'd been fed evil tripe designed to persecute and belittle other groups within that world. But sadly this isn't the case is it. People will always believe whatever they want aslong as they are stood by in a majority and that will always happen, especially within our lifetime, when it comes to religion. These two people, regardless of how well meaning, should not be allowed to look after children because they will teach them utter bollocks. It's silly to even consider them as candidates for looking after children when they would not teach them the right thing to think. There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and homosexuality is neither below or above heterosexuality. That is a fact. Surely this should not be debated.
To see one of my friends also spout off on this subject go to http://woolengeographer.blogspot.com/. He's a smart lad. You'll like him.
Owen and Eunice Jones were told that their views on homosexuality would be in conflict with the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 (common sense and decency to the smart people reading this) which is exactly what their views would do. The couple said they were not willing to tell a child that Homosexuality was morally right. How there was any further argument I do not know. This wasn't an attack on any religion whatsoever, this was the law intervening on the possible poisining of a child's mind into believing they were some how better than other people because of their sexuality or even worse, feeling conflicted and disgusting for years to come as they themselves were homosexual but were brought up in an enviroment surrounded by homophobia.
The Daily Mail obviously wrote a well thought out unbias article with the headline "Christian beliefs DO lose out to Gay Rights: Judges' ruling against devout foster couple". DID YOU HEAR THAT GUYS?? SOME WELL MEANING PEACE LOVING CHRISTIANS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO FOSTER CHILDREN PURELY FOR THEIR OUTDATED RIDICULOUS BELIEFS! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO?? NEXT THEY'LL BE TELLING ME I CAN'T CALL PEOPLE PAKIS ANYMORE! The comments on The Daily Mail website were equally hilarious. Rocketto from Italy vomited the words "Upside-down world" onto the comments page which gained the equivalent of 1046 likes on the Daily Mail website presumably because it was comprised of less than 10 words, the amount that an average Daily Mail reader can stand before they get bored and start looking for something racist. Tom Norton ended a comment of his with the phrase "The gays are not in charge of the world. God is" which only helps my argument even more Tom so thank you very much for that one.
I think the main point to be taken from this news story is that we must now be able to admit that we live in such a society that is further thinking than the traditional values followed by religion, Christianity being the particular example this time. Many would argue that regardless of what these children were told or taught at a younger age they would then themselves get out into the world and realise they'd been fed evil tripe designed to persecute and belittle other groups within that world. But sadly this isn't the case is it. People will always believe whatever they want aslong as they are stood by in a majority and that will always happen, especially within our lifetime, when it comes to religion. These two people, regardless of how well meaning, should not be allowed to look after children because they will teach them utter bollocks. It's silly to even consider them as candidates for looking after children when they would not teach them the right thing to think. There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and homosexuality is neither below or above heterosexuality. That is a fact. Surely this should not be debated.
To see one of my friends also spout off on this subject go to http://woolengeographer.blogspot.com/. He's a smart lad. You'll like him.
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