Before & After & Inbetween

...I've been offended by the pope!

"As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and his destiny"
Pope Benedict XVI in the UK

No, atheism does not make you an amoral, unethical misanthropist out to slaughter world populace any more than faith makes you a morally sound, ethical philanthropist out to save the world populace by default!

If you want to read up more on this speech of intolerance and its long debunked equation of "secularism and atheism = lack of virtue and morality = Nazism", Bad Astronomy's Phil has a good summary here.

Those of you, who actually visit me at Insanejournal might have noticed that I started to adapt the layout there to please my mutant eyes. Those who know me well might have already guessed what that means:

From now on, I consider AKK @ IJ my main journal, where any spontaneous posts, comments, memes, polls (yes, I can have polls there!), etc. go. It will also be the first spot I check for comments and the one I recommend to my friends and for feedback from my homepage.

( elaborate, not-polite, vulgar rant about this decision )

You can find a feed for my Insanejournal at akk_ij
(or use the bookmarklet in your browser: http://akk.insanejournal.com/data/rss/)

I will continue fic-related posts and announcements in the respective communities here. I'll also check my friends list, but if the grey entities decide they don't like my works and TOS me, I won't bother to jump any loops (or appeal), I'll simply be gone for good.

In case you now consider me an egotistic beast because of this:
I own a ficus benjamini with personality issues, who'd like to have a word with you.

Thank you for your attention. Hope to see you soon elsewhere. :)