Sometimes, I’m really sympathetic of religion, having been there (sorta) myself and having many friends and relatives who are still there. But sometimes, there are just no words to describe the stupid depths to which religion drives people.

First, we have the Anglican priest who believes that homosexuals should have warning labels (you know, like cigarettes) that proclaim them to be a danger to your health. One wonders if they’re only a danger to other homosexuals (or only to people with whom they have sexual congress) or to everyone, like a cigarette. If someone smokes next to me, that’s a danger to my health. If someone is gay next to me, that’s…not.

He later retracted his statements and said that it was all meant in jest and that anyone reading it would have known it to be so (although clearly not the people who first reported on it). He may well have been joking, but since other religionists make clearly idiotic claims, it’s easy to believe that he was not.

Second: the Saudi cleric who called on women to expose only one eye (no information about which one), lest they incite unsuspecting men to lust with their whorish eye make up. Apparently, exposing only her eyes makes a woman have sinful desires toward make up. I can’t wait for him to back out of this one, like the Anglican above.

In the meantime, here’s an awesome response that calls for men wearing a veil over both their eyes to prevent them from being incited to lust by looking at women. At least that one has some basis in logic—if the man is the one whose lustful thoughts are so out of control that seeing two eyes in a black form makes him horny (note: never should he be allowed to any Hallowe’en celebration—the disembodied eyes peering out of haunted house walls might drive him to rape everyone in the vicinity), it stands to reason that it is the man’s ability to see (rather than the asexual sight) that ought to be restrained.