Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Religious Convictions and Modern Life

Lot's of upset in society due to daily mass shootings. The latest being 100 people in a club in Orlando Florida. Turns out the guy (1 man) was a Muslim, hated many groups, but especially gays. Pretty horrible, anyway you slice it.

The attitude displayed by the fringe "religious" folk underscores a big source of the problem. Texas' own Lt. Governor (he who does not deserve to be named) was quick to tweet a bible verse, suggesting the shooting victims had it coming.

The do-nothing congress continues in their hot streak of Doing Nothing (well, they always have rhetoric to spare) .

But, back to religious groups who are fighting (politically) to preserve their right to smite people not of their own persuasion. Every religion that refers to "The God of Abraham" has a long list of nasty things to say about "others". "Others" being anybody who isn't 'one of us'. Oh, the other 10,000 belief systems probably have plenty of faults, but I am going to keep it to the "Big Three" for this discussion.

I'm thinking people who are attracted to the idea of behaving badly under sanction of the Holy Book (whichever one you choose) represent the sad, sick part of society - ours or any.

Western society, North America, Western Europe, etc. have plenty of these people although in the minority and just tolerated  by the majority. Your third world countries in the Middle East - Northern Africa, etc. seem to have sanctioned these nasty scripture passages into civil law, and created whole sick, dysfunctional societies.

So we have examples of life under religious dictates. Kinda makes you want to ban religion (ha, just kidding folks!). Perhaps the real answer is to make critical thinking cool, and reactionary behavior totally not cool.


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