Interview with Archbishop Runcible Spoon and The Resistance: TR: “I would like to ask you some questions of a religious nature” ARC: “Yes, that’s fine” TR: “What is the purpose of a monastery?” ARC: “Well a monastery is a powerhouse of prayer” TR:” Really, you mean God is hard of hearing and needs the volume turning up?” ARC:” No I don’ t mean that, how dare you?” TR:”If God can hear everybody surely he does not need a group of perverts chanting together” ARC: “errr...” TR:”Where did Eve spring from?” ARC:”From Adam’s rib, of course” TR: “Really, where is your evidence for this? How do we know that Eve didn’t really spring from God’s arse (elbow, tumour)” ARC: “HOW DARE YOU!!!” TR: “Many liberals think that we should tolerate people’s beliefs, but this is problematic. If a caveman from the stone age was transported through time and he insisted on putting light bulbs in the bath because that is how he thought they worked we wouldn’t tolerate it would we? ARC:”No” TR: “So why should we tolerate your rubbish?” ARC: “Well...errr....I warn you God may strike you down!” TR: “If there is a God, why does he let atrocities such as The London bombings and the illegal war on Iraq take place?” ARC:”Well, God moves in mysterious ways” TR: “Really, perhaps as Anthony Blair thinks of himself as a son of God he can excuse his next disaster with ‘I move in mysterious ways’ ”. end of interview - Archbishop Runcible Spoon wanders off in the direction of a nunnery