Religion is evil, and I'm sick and tired of people making apologies and excuses for it. There is one religion, for example, that would kill me if that were within its power. It is the controlling power in those countries where it is prevalent. In those countries human rights are an unknown concept. In those countries people are treated with the utmost savagery. If one criticises the government then one also criticises god, so one is therefore executed as a heretic. Reader, if you can imagine your most terrifying nightmare and multiply the terror a million fold, then that is what life is like in that culture for anyone who doesn't conform with it. Some of those countries are described as 'moderate'. They are not. The only difference is that they don't execute people for quite so many 'crimes'. That religion has the effrontery, the arrogance to describe itself as the religion of peace and good.
Then we have religion in our own country, which has by now lost the iron grip it once had on people's lives. It is seen as benevolent, philanthropic and wise. What a load of bollocks. It still believes in those same Old Testament texts that are behind the wanton barbarity of the other religion. It's all hypocrisy, even a lie, yet some people don't seem able to see through the delusion.
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