WE DEMAND

We demand that the blight of religion (if it’s a religion, it’s “organized”) be utterly eradicated from the face of planet. This will necessitate the immediate removal from every church, synagogue, mosque, temple, ashram, cathedral, etc. of any and every self-styled “representative of god on earth” including nuns, priests, ministers, rabbis, mullahs, ayatollahs, etc., and their forced (if necessary) dispossession of all the enormous wealth and power they have accumulated throughout centuries of domination and exploitation. Let the wealth and the buildings be used for the creation of playgrounds, abortion clinics, free pubs, libertine sodalities, or whatever the individuals who take hold of them for their own purposes, rather than those of some mythical spook in the sky, desire.

We demand that the pope – that shrunken, shrivelled, ex-Nazi would-be masturbator who personifies more than any other the domination of death over life in this world (and who, if we are to believe him, has never known the splendors of physical love, even at his own hand) – make nothing less than a full, public recantation, an open declaration of his and the church’s central role in two thousand years of human destruction. We demand this not just for all of the those who have died for their refusal to kneel before inquisitions, missionaries and crusaders, but for all the individuals who have ever anguished over any expression of their natural and innate desire for the most intimate human contact and glorious sexual satiation; for all the individuals who have ever been brow-beaten into surrendering their curiosity, their autonomy, their humanity and their individuality to the demands of others’ sanctified and sanctimonious hallucinations.

We demand that the final smashing of religiously-induced sexual repression be ushered in, in Topeka, Kansas, by the public staging of an orgy at the Westboro Baptist Church, involving Rev. Fred Phelps, Madeline Crabb, Michele Bachmann, Archbishop John Nienstedt, Sarah Palin and the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all fucking until their teeth fall out. We demand extravagant sex play involving every conceivable variant of oral/genital/anal contact and every conceivable combination of the so-called “sexes.” We demand that the self-identified men start the orgy in flimsy, lacy negligees to be ripped off in pieces as passions rise. We demand that the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in reciting the most lurid passages from Philosophy in the Bedroom as encouragement to those fucking. The orgy will be videotaped as it is going on and shown live on the internet. We demand that this orgy go on for at least twenty-four hours since these god-haunted fanatics will need at least that long to fully break down their character armor.

We demand freedom for all of the prisoners of religion throughout the world, and particularly those who were imprisoned for having the spirit to refuse all imposed spirituality. And while we’re at we demand the destruction of all prisons, since they are the most explicit expression of imposed morality.

The essential premise of religion has always been the annihilation of the individual; and so we, as individuals, demand the annihilation of religion.

MARQUIS DE SADE BRIGADE-2011

 (This is an update of a list of demands made by an earlier embodiment of the Brigade in the June 19, 1978 issue of Fifth Estate. Though Infidels for Christ has a slightly different strategy than the Marquis De Sade Brigade, we are highly sympathetic with their ultimate aim and with their style, so we decided to post their demands.)