Thoughts

I've just been outside for a fag, and realised how much better I feel today. Both ears are completely unblocked and I can breathe through my nose. Perhaps that's why my mood has improved.
While I was outside I started thinking about the horror that is the Middle East. It is run by regimes that seem hell-bent on brutalising and mistreating their own citizens. Of course the monster behind it all is religion. Religion teaches people to blindly obey, whether or not the things they obey are right. It's the same sought of blind obedience that allowed the likes of Hitler to do all the terrible things he is remembered for. Religion also preaches that people should obey those in authority. In Victorian times religion used to instruct the long-suffering poor to show deference to their 'betters'. That's the same thing really. Religion is immoral. It keeps people oppressed. And it serves itself. No wonder it fears the education of the common man.