Sunday morning telly.

If it's one thing I do a lot when I am off work or lounging around, is watch telly. Especially shit television. I can't help but be fascinated by all these people who go off in search for their dream home, and people finding things in their attic and being told it's worth hundreds only to find it sells for £2.50.
The television I hate though, is a program called The Heaven and Earth Show, designed to fill the religious slot without actually being too religious. It is an absolute piece of lamentable television in that it is sort of supposed to be about religion, (labeled religious broadcasting) but they are afraid of mentioning any specific religion, so everyone on there is supposedly bit nice and sort of spiritual and open to other peoples ideas. That's not what religion is about. Religion is about saying "this is my idea , I'm right, and at best people who have not got that idea should try and adopt it and at worst we should send a crusade against them to kill them all." And years ago that is what would have been said. The Heaven and Earth Show is a tour around a Cathedral before showing how to cook chocolate brownies for the local fate. They make spectacular biennial points, with presenters who are offspring from the goody two shoes nursery. What you really want is an angry Muslim cleric, instead you get some half dead 'celebrity' who goes off on a project to learn about Buddhism, but so afraid are the producers to call it by its name, they patronise us by saying the presenter is going for 'a bit of me time.'
Give us some one who will make a good point, 'hang on you believe that, that's bollocks.'
The Argos Christmas catalogue is more spiritual then this program. Next they will show a woman wearing a crucifix and pixelate the cross in the event it may cause offense.
And everything in this programme is fair game, you can have someone saying they believe in ghosts and nobody says anything to challenge this, they are merely asked in what way ghosts help them. Sod off with your ghosts, you're insane. If they actually had some religous person on the show, it might look slightly better. Sit a ghost believer next to a Cardinal and you have something worth watching, until then, it will remian luke warm dishwater with bits of hideous 'nice' bullshit talk floating in it.
Two words have become two very creepy in the past five years. Respect, which is over used mostly in politics and the Daily Mail, is culled from a South Central American Black African word, a word which for understandable reasons was developed for the 'self'.' We have abused ut and made it a slogan for the Tory campaign of empty promises.
The other word is offense, it is now common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that,' as if that gives them certain rights when it is merely and no more then a whine. It has no meaning no puropose it doesn't deserve to be 'respected' as a phrase.
"I am offended by that," well so fu**ing what.