10/01/02: Religion is a bunch of fucking bunk.

[Xugumad]

perth
i dont expect anyone to agree with me, but i do expect people to respect the choices i make.

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- H.L. Mencken

And some people will tell you the truth: your wife is ugly.

The 'choice' made will be respected when those who associate themselves with Christianity and who seem to have considerable influence in US politics stop backing racist, sexist, homophobic, violent, murderous policies.

I don't believe that they are the ultimate image of Christianity, and I find it abhorrent that they have become the public face of American religion, the same way that I abhor that violent Muslims seem to have become the public face of Islam.

The day the last abortion doctor has been shot or bombed, the day science is not suppressed in favour of dogma, the day religion does not cause death and suffering, the day women are not mutilated, beaten, or killed because of supposedly religious reasons, the day that primitive people are aided in preventing death, rather than lectured and left to die, that very same day, the voices of dissent will fall silent, and Christianity (and religion in general) will be accepted as the voice of progress, rather than oppression.

Until then, I - as a Christian - am ashamed to be associated with people who actively pervert everything that is good and commendable about the Judeo-Christian religion, and organized religion in general. Abandon dogma, whether it is Judeo-Christian, Muslim, or otherwise. Western civilization has moved towards progress, enlightenment, and tolerance - dogma is a throwback to an age we fought so very hard to leave behind.

X.

PS: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen." (Falwell on 9/11; his later apology was a transparent sham)