If you as a jew dont believe in god than what give us the rights to live in israel?
God gave us israel and thats why we have rights to live in israel,
If you dont believe in god then the arabs are right!!!We have no reason to live in israel.
Darling have some faith in god!!!

Not to change the subject but that scene on your site with Tony Ryder and Corey Cade is naughty and delightful and an almost religious celebration of the naked male homo body. Keep up the sizzling hot work! Bless you! Bless you!

Yes, I increasingly find it amazing that seemingly everyone in America at least pretends to believe in god. The most discouraging part is that this belief is so unthinking, theologically unsophisticated, and historically uninformed. The only hope I see is that at least in Europe the myths are waning. I suppose that fact alone speaks against the idea for most xenophobic Americans.

I would just like to point out that Jews were never persecuted in India. Other than that, I agree with everything in your post

Michael, I think your response rings hollow. Leave aside all the stuff about God and religion. You wrote a blog, a fantasy, about the rape of a 78 year old man. First of all you chose to use rape as your weapon. For those who have been raped, men and women, there is nothing funny or evocative or erotic in reading what your wrote. It is obvious in all you do, and do well, sex for you is very much about power. Rape is always about power. It is a thin line, don't cross it. Secondly, you wrote about an old man as your victim. I don't give a damn who is he, no old man deserves to be raped. If you don't believe in God, fine. But have some respect for the elderly. How can you write about raping an old man and then end today's piece with the words "I believe in people and their power -- the power to create, love and care." If that were really true, you could not have written what you did.

Michael,
Without agreeing or disagreeing with you, why don't you give this thing a rest?
Your anger at God is clear. Your anger makes God real ... to you.
Leave those of faith alone, but concentrate your efforts against faith based institutions, because in the name of God great evil is at work.
It's OK to believe in God as it is OK not to believe.
Why can't we just keep it to ourselves, private, as it should be.

Michael,
As always, your comments are all dead-on about our culture. As an atheist, I continue to be amazed that "enlightened" gay men persist in the belief that there is a god who watches over them or that a carpenter rose from the dead. People need to take your post in the spirit in which it was written. To say you are advocating actually going to Rome and raping the pope is absurd. You didn't write a call to action. You were asked a fantasy question. You gave a fantasy answer. Life is about power. The church has been raping us all, gay and straight, male and female, literally and symbolically, for centuries. Nothing wrong with what your post said. We would all be better served by looking to our own power and not waiting for some false god to bail us out.

In answer to Stephan Bertoli:

Objectively considered, God has nothing to do with whether people of Jewish extraction are entitled to some portion of land, however small, in what was the Land of Ancient Israel.

In the first place, given the archeological record of the history of Jews in the region going back for many millenia, to say that Jews have no right to any portion of land there is like saying that the Greeks have no right to Greece or that Native Americans have no right to reservations in the US.

But what takes all ambiguity out of the question in the modern world is this; many Middle Eastern Muslims, led by the Grand Mufti Hussani of Jerusalem, allied themselves with the Nazis during WWII for the express purpose of exterminating all Jewish people in all of the countries of the Middle East. There were Jews living in what today is Iraq who were descendents of the biblical Hebrews who would have been exterminated by the Arabs in cahoots with the Nazi SS had the allies not won the war.

The Nazis and the Arabs allied with them did not care a tinker's dam about whether people did or did not believe in God. If the human being had one drop of Jewish blood in his body, he or she was to be exterminated for that reason alone.

That is why the Jews deserve a piece of land in their ancestral homeland where they have a measure of self-determination and aren't left to the murderous whims of Islamic and/or other peoples.

You'd think that in 2006, people would have moved beyond the absurd and primitive separations imposed by religious lunacy. But they haven't. And fair-minded people everywhere should seek to protect innocents from religious lunacy.

YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT!!!

Why can't you work in real movies. Why just fucking gay one's !! You seem to have it all from GOD.