“In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.”
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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
