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And now, The Skating Atheist.

I love Noah's die tribes and wish I had his talent for ranting, but if I did, I couldn't recall one for him because that's his special reserve section that only he can pull off the way he does.

But like him, I can talk fast and I can get angry and I can try to express my frustration and anger when I come across something that's not just stupid but affects people close to me.

You see, I live in a country where I can be put in prison for not going to a particular place of worship.

Hell, I had to be called the Non-Amy Steve and Skeptical Podcast because I can be put in prison in the country where I live in just because I'm telling you that I can be put in the prison in the country where I live in for not going to a particular brand of death cult that I apparently must go to.

But after several years into this state of affairs, what still really knocks me sideways, what really shocks me is the fact that the country where I live in is united kingdom.

Yes, in old Blighty, a judge believed he had the right to tell me it had to attend Catholic Mass.

Not only that, but I have to force my children to attend Catholic Mass, regardless of the fact that some of us thought the European Convention of Human Rights protected all of us from such a decision making.

And this is not an atheist thing, it's a human thing. You see, I've never been a Catholic and we're having to go to Mass where we cannot attend the alternative.

So this decision is just wrong, regardless of whether I'm an atheist or a member of some other religion or denomination.

Fuck it, it'll be wrong even if I were a Catholic. I'd get them a lost cause, but if my sons want to be Muslim or Sikh or even Catholic, I would happily take them to the house of worship they chose.

Well, not happily, perhaps, but definitely I would support their freedom of thought and freedom of choice.

Now it's easy to look at this judge with hate or anger to call him an idiot because of the Catholic and that he decided we would have to follow his faith of third-of-physian.

But this guy didn't physically know better than me and no worse than me.

I don't know what degree he was forced to Catholic matter the child or how his religion has trapped him in the same way that's trying to attract my children.

Yes, he's a fool, he's plain wrong and he perhaps should not be allowed to do his job.

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