It has been a while since the last rant; I seem to have been bathing in the ever enlarging sea of apathy, along with most of the rest of the world. Sometimes it is easier to drift along with the tide. People often ask atheists why they care so much about religion and why they cannot just ignore it and get on with things. It is easy to bury one's head in the sand, and so, though there is nothing that I can actually do, I feel the need to express my horror and disgust at what happens in the name of religion.
This week, a fourteen year old girl was shot in the head by members of a pernicious group of muslims. Her crime was to want to go to school and to support the rights of girls and women to have an education. If there has been a public outcry, then it has not been well reported. Such crimes take place on a daily basis is some countries and are considered acceptable because they are perpetrated in the name of a god. These people are so deeply indoctrinated from birth that everything they do is determined by the vile doctrines that control them. Education is the biggest enemy that religion has, and it is no wonder that governments are so glad to support religions, whatever brand of nonsense they subscribe to.
This week there was a documentary on TV about a group of fundamental creationists, who were taken on a road trip and confronted with evidence for the process of evolution. It was a scary program in that five, reasonably intelligent adults, when confronted with hard facts that contradicted their faith, were unmoved. For them, Noah's ark was real, dinosaurs and men cohabited, the world was created a few thousand years ago and that humans were created, from.......what? For them, Adam and Eve were the first people, they had two sons, Cain and Abel, one of whom killed the other. So where did the rest of the people come from. The bible doesn't give any help there so that was brushed aside. To many people the bible or the Qran is the absolute truth and everything written in it is fact. Having seen these five, and realising that they represent a huge and growing number of people throughout the world, it is terrifying to think of so many who have abandoned their powers of reason. Such minds can be so easily led by the charismatic and manipulative church leaders, many of which have ulterior motives.
Only recently we learned of the death of the leader of the Moonies, who most people would describe as a lunatic sect. To the members of that following, the self proclaimed representative of god, was just that and they were quite happy to follow his every word and to fill up his bank accounts. He died a very rich man, and I am sure that there will be others stepping in and collecting the contributions from those whose minds have been damaged.
I can see little difference between these so called extreme groups, and the rank and file followers of any denomination.
This week, a fourteen year old girl was shot in the head by members of a pernicious group of muslims. Her crime was to want to go to school and to support the rights of girls and women to have an education. If there has been a public outcry, then it has not been well reported. Such crimes take place on a daily basis is some countries and are considered acceptable because they are perpetrated in the name of a god. These people are so deeply indoctrinated from birth that everything they do is determined by the vile doctrines that control them. Education is the biggest enemy that religion has, and it is no wonder that governments are so glad to support religions, whatever brand of nonsense they subscribe to.
This week there was a documentary on TV about a group of fundamental creationists, who were taken on a road trip and confronted with evidence for the process of evolution. It was a scary program in that five, reasonably intelligent adults, when confronted with hard facts that contradicted their faith, were unmoved. For them, Noah's ark was real, dinosaurs and men cohabited, the world was created a few thousand years ago and that humans were created, from.......what? For them, Adam and Eve were the first people, they had two sons, Cain and Abel, one of whom killed the other. So where did the rest of the people come from. The bible doesn't give any help there so that was brushed aside. To many people the bible or the Qran is the absolute truth and everything written in it is fact. Having seen these five, and realising that they represent a huge and growing number of people throughout the world, it is terrifying to think of so many who have abandoned their powers of reason. Such minds can be so easily led by the charismatic and manipulative church leaders, many of which have ulterior motives.
Only recently we learned of the death of the leader of the Moonies, who most people would describe as a lunatic sect. To the members of that following, the self proclaimed representative of god, was just that and they were quite happy to follow his every word and to fill up his bank accounts. He died a very rich man, and I am sure that there will be others stepping in and collecting the contributions from those whose minds have been damaged.
I can see little difference between these so called extreme groups, and the rank and file followers of any denomination.
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