Q. What do they yell out in a muslim strip club?

A. Show us ya face

Ev,when you throw the unsubstanciated mud of ridicule,expect the acid tongue of criticism.The Christian religion has it's foilbles but it's philosophy has done much good in this world.

Religion represents the aspirational self and we as humans stop aspiring to be something better,we all might as well give the game of life away.

There is no good or evil,we can only move from the negative to the positive in the light of our experience and education.

Merry Christmas and appreciate what great country Australia is that affords many like you,the luxury to bite the hand that feeds you.

Arjay,
What good has religion done?
If it has done some good it means it has just fixed up the mistakes that it was responsible for in the first place.
If we did away with religion maybe there would be more love and spiritualism in the world.

Arjay, the two by far most brutal and devastating wars in the history of the human species (WW1 and WW2) were primarily conducted by Germany, Russia, France, England, America and Italy - all good Christian nations. Plus the American civil war. And that's just the wars with each other, not the ones with other nations, nor does it include the fine work of christian missionaries across the globe from those European empires and their colonising armies. But I suppose all these things are just 'foilbles' as you say.

Arjay - 'Ev,when you throw the unsubstanciated mud of ridicule,expect the acid tongue of criticism.'

My words aren't the unsubstantiated mud of ridicule, nor are your words the acid tongue of critism, in fact they more closely resemble the loose tongue of impatience.

Arjay - 'Religion represents the aspirational self and we as humans stop aspiring to be something better,we all might as well give the game of life away.'

Why do you need religion to inspire you? Just take a look at the BILLIONS of stars and galaxies on a clear night.. (preferably away from the city).. don't know about you but that keeps me going, in addition to this utterly astonishing blue-green planet that teems with life all around us and inside us, which we call the Earth.

Arjay - 'There is no good or evil, we can only move from the negative to the positive in the light of our experience and education.'

Good and evil are quite prominent in Christian philosophy, wouldn't you say? And do think Pol Pot wasn't really evil, he was just negative due to a lack of experience and education?

Arjay - 'Merry Christmas and appreciate what great country Australia is that affords many like you,the luxury to bite the hand that feeds you.'

I never payed out on Australia in ANY of my posts.. show me a single example of where I did.. Australia is an awesome country.. and the only hands that I do consider biting are those connected to people who speak before they think.

"Think twice." - (a Buddhist saying..)

Irfan, you always write enjoyable articles.

The bloke Jesus, was born around August, not December. The bible is a false account of letters and documents written more than 75 years after jesus and not by those ascribed to them. No mention of a nativity scene, nor a virgin birth. The Koran is just an interpretation of those letters.

Christmas is a foolish illusion when you take into account, it is the one time of the year when domestic and family violence dramatically increase around the world.

It is the time when traumatic accidents and death account for the most people.

It is the time when lots of so called non believers succumb to the illusion and follow the sheep into false joy, moral and fiscal debt.

It is a time when we have to put up with fanciful religious propaganda being forced down our throats, being told that all is well with the world as god is good and great.

It is the time when the deluded religious spew out their messages of how much good religion has brought to the world, yet not one of them can name the good things, except hope. Yet it's that hope the religious follow, that has constantly failed them throughout history, and continues to fail them today.

It is time when I stay home to avoid the hordes of obese whinging city slaves that invade our peace, trample, pollute and desecrate our natural clean environment. It is the one time of they year when we have to lock our cars and houses. It is the time when theft and crime in the area goes from zero to 4-5 incidents a day.

I much prefer August, very pleasant then. If I believed any of the religious crap, I would at least worship the reality and not the delusion the fools follow. So in August, I will sit down and say, poor bastard that Jesus bloke, they really stuffed up anything interesting he might have had to say.

Merry fantasy, and a happy delusion, pity about the peace and goodwill around the world

Alchemist, you're up early today saying "Bah! Humbug!" I presume you also don't believe in the weekend, a concept with religious origins (the Sabbath). The ancient Romans were scathing in their criticism of the Jewish practice of having every 7th day off as a holiday. Now of course, the weekend is universal.

I don't celebrate Xmas. However, I wish a happy safe and healthy Xmas to all my Christian friends, colleagues and fellow Australians.