The British Humanist Association has published what it hopes to become a truly seminal work, The Logical Pathway to Utilising Humour as a Rational Weapon Against Ignorance and Superstition.
Leading light Jonathan "Obnoxious" Meades explained that "Degraded as it is, it is essential that we add this 'comical' tool to our soul annihilating armoury. As with life in its filthy wholeness, there is no secret to humour. Its function is to puncture false pretensions to dignity in man, who is merely an eating, shitting and fucking animal machine, and who owes what merits he possesses entirely to his accidentally acquired reasoning powers."
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Weird. I dont see why one has to be a Humanist and one, moreover, who believes that we masterpieces of nature are nothing but an 'eating, shitting and fucking animal machine' in order to believe that humour is a marvellous potent corrective to tyrannical modes of thought.
In any case, what has he got against shitting?
Again, this is merely an essay in satire. I did see a few minutes of Meades in a couple of programmes of his recently, & the position I've shown I'd say very accurately portrays Meades' personal position of obnoxious, loveless, arrogant ignorance, whilst being convinced of his wise, virtuous understanding- nay knowledge- of pure truth. Which isn't in any way to say all humanists...etc.
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