Of course yesterday's update wasn't my first topic of choice. Most probably those that died in the "technical failure" would have preferred it not to have been either.

No, the update I was going to put up yesterday was another quite trippy co-incidence. Last Tuesday I was watching Mughal-e-Azam and had got to the part where the son of the Emperor is cast out of the palace for getting hammered on wine and balancing whores on some super-size, sacred scales of justice. Give him a break, he's 12, he's experimenting! I confess I found the film a bit dull at this point and my 'Concentration Kid' had already skipped off to the park to play on the swings. Considering my next blog update as a more worthy use of my mind-waves I started to think of an analogy to use for the irony in banging my head on a 'Mind Your Head' sign. I likened it, weakly, to writing, "Danger - sharp" in tiny letters on a sword edge and slicing your nose off as you bring it near to read. Time in the film had since skipped forward about 10 years and very shortly we got to a scene showing the exiled son, in his tent after a battle, writing a prayer in his own blood on the edge of his sword....dum dum daaaaa! It's ONLY a co-incidence!! I am not the Messiah!! Go away!!

......"how shall we go away my Lord?"

A thought has just occurred to me whilst considering this update. Would the devoutly religious fundamentalists, for example the Islamic suicide bombers, consider a society of atheists an easier target when it comes to spreading fear? Atheists have no 'Eternity in Heaven' comfort blanket to get them fearlessly through life (neither do the "faithful" actually if you want to be picky about it). Probably, one could argue, we atheists cherish the current life more so than those that consider it simply a practice run for the afterlife. I don't like this hypothesis: it's a weakness for evil headcases to exploit. Maybe, using the principle of cut-out soldiers on the battlements at night, atheists should put up a fake faithful front to these nut-jobs in order to disguise this potential chink in our armour? I might post this in the Dawkins forums to see what replies I get.

Remember kids, don't have Faith, have certainty.