I've just been to workhouse no2 so that's out of the way. I'm feeling like shit so told the man chapter and verse. Poor him. While I was there the person from social services tried to contact me. She wants to see me on Tuesday, which will be great, but the appointment she's offered me clashes with my first counselling session. With a bit of luck she'll be able to see me a little bit later.
Today's news is very worrying indeed. We have now started bombing another country, and that is going to cause untold suffering to the civilian population. The people are not a problem. Their religion is the problem. It is religious beliefs that have brainwashed a large number of people into becoming extremists. That religion is completely intolerant, even in its 'moderate' forms. I fear that it will be impossible to educate those people out of those beliefs, since those very beliefs will condition how that education is received.
And while we are on the subject, the religion of the Western world also produces extremists. We have the 'pro-life' fanatics across the water, and other secret organisations whose views are based on religious beliefs, and who murder.
Religion's apologists will bleat on about how these people have taken things out of context, or that they have misunderstood. Rubbish. I bet these individuals would have no difficulty whatsoever in producing the exact scriptural passages that 'justify' their behaviour. In the past I have been asked to 'Think of all the good things that religion has done'. That is the exactly the same argument as 'Think of all the autobahns that Hitler built'. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
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