religion 8 March 2008
Religion is dangerous and so are teapots but who knew that both could collide in such an astounding (and tragic) way – saw a little piece in the paper today about a woman in Malaysia who was recently jailed for two years for belonging to a cult that worships a 20 foot high teapot. The pot apparently symbolises the outpouring of goodness, so it’s a very benign cult, but jail it is for the poor worshipper. The writer of the piece did mention that Bertrand Russell once compared faith in God to believing that there was a teapot orbiting the sun – you might believe totally that this was true but you would need something more to convince anyone else of it. No help for the poor Malaysian woman there, either.
