The trial begins
by Hamlet



Richard Dawkins stood with His head bowed at the Catechision Court ready for
the charges against him to be read by Senor Sister Valentine Rostergaard.

Sister Marissa Hardvaller the Court Bailiff had already dragged Her prisoner
into The Grand Hall of the Trial Room of the Warrior Nuns from Norseland St
Agatha Convent in Eastry England by a dog collar on his hands and knees.What a
wretched sight he was half naked wearing just his underpants and looking so
weak compared to the muscular build of the Nuns!

He had his head bowed and was made to walk like a dog on all fours. As he
entered the pitch darkness of the Grand Hall he looked up from the floor and
beheld a vast golden throne right in front of him.

Seated at the top of the throne dressed totally in shiny black latex with a
long flowing cape with only Her eyes showing to make Her look absolutely
terrifying sat the Mother Superior Extremely Senior Sister Athena Lydiasdottir
To add terror to the occasion She wore and long pointed hat that made Her look
immensely tall even as She was sitting there. It was Her role to conduct the
Trial and to pass any sentence She chose on the prisoner..

Next to Her on a slightly lower throne sat the Chief Prosecutor Senor Sister
Professor Very Senior Sister Eva Harvested.It was Her role to bring the list
of charges against the accused and to ruthlessly cross examine and humiliate
him.

To the left in the Witness and Denouncement box sat Sisters Alison and Megan
who had personally captured Dawkins in all their skills as fighters beating
his goons to a pulp. Their purpose was to bring as much evidence as They could
against the accused noting every single misdemeanour so that the prisoner
would face the full punishment for all his sins and misdemeanours.

To the right crouched t on a small stool sat the defence counsel the American
atheist Sam Harris Sam Harris was an American author, philosopher, public
intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project
Reason.]He was the author of The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and
appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. In 2006,Harris
published the book Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of
The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape, published in
2010, his long-form essay Lying in 2011, and the short book Free

Sister Athena had ordered him to be the Defence counsel in the trial. He had
reluctantly agreed knowing full well that he face being sentenced himself for
the crime of Defending an atheist if Dawkins was found guilty.As the defence
counsel he had limited powers and could face severe punishment himself if he
did not do exactly what the Mother Superior ordered him to do.

Behind the throne was a vast coloured portrait of The Queen Goddess a huge
Norselandic flag and an enormous golden Crucifix.

In front of the throne stood a rack on which the prisoner would be tied naked
upright in the crucifix position where he would directly face the Chief
Catechistitor and Mother Superior Herself.

Once inside the procedure was the accused would be presented with a list of
accusations by the Chief Prosecutor whose role it was to ridicule and
humiliate the accused and tear his arguments to shreds.

The Court would also use torture to interrogate him This would be applied by
the Bailiff Sarah in this case who an expert Torturess was knowing how to
inflict the most terrible pain on Her victims having come first in Her
Novitiate in the noble art of Divine Torture. The uses of Torture was a
subject that all Nuns would have to be thoroughly qualified in order to attain
full Nunhood.

Mother Superior Athena then stood up to address the court

'Good morning Sisters and members of the press and public The first trial of
the Cathecision Court in England has begun, This trial will be relayed right
across the worldThis will be the first of its kind in which thousands and
thousand of apostates and criminals will be tried and sentenced, many to
death. In many ways this court resembles the International Criminal Court in
The Hague.

'I am an Instrument of God's Will and the Will of The Queen Goddess My Word
and every utterance is Law. There is a defence council Sam Harris l here he is
under My jurisdiction and I will only allow him limited powers and will punish
him if he shows any insubordination and I and only I will pass sentence
according to the evidence that is presented to Me.'

She then directly addressed the prisoner. She turned to Senior Sister
Valentine

'SISTER VALENTINE!

'READ OUT THE CHARGES AGAINST THE PRISONERS!'

Sister Valentine stepped forwards.

"The prisoner Dawkins is charged with blasphemy and with polluting the minds
of innocent students. The prisoner is an outspoken� atheist [] and a supporter
of various atheist, secular, and humanistic organisations. He has constantly
proposed the lies of evolution.He have insulted those with religious views as
idiots and stupid. He has propagated his poison throughout the world in
particular in his blasphemous book The God Delusion.'

How does the prisoner plead?

Dawkins screamed out in fury.

'This court is a complete farce! It shows the stupidity of all religious
beliefs! Religion is both a source of conflict and a justification for belief
without evidence. Religious faith""belief that is not based on evidence""is
one of the world's great evils and this is demonstrated by this ridiculous
court! Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think
and evaluate evidence! Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of,
the lack of evidence!I refuse to answer any questions by a court that has no
jurisdiction based on a fascist country Norseland in the Pacific Ocean
thousands of miles away. I was taken here by force while I was lecturing to my
students at Oxford without any justification at all!

;RELEASE ME NOW YOU EVIL HARIDANS!!

Sister Marissa the Court Bailiff grabbed him by the neck and slapped him hard
across the face'

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SLAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

'Don't you dare address the court like you worm brained fake!If you continue
to speak like that I will put you into strapado.That means I will first tie
your hands behind your back and you will be suspended in the air by means of a
rope attached to your wrists, which most likely will dislocate both your arms.
I may add weights to your body to intensify the effect and increase the pain.'

BEHAVE YOURSELF OR YOU WILL BE IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!!

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