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If the Devil is six then God is seven
Feb. 1st, 2006 09:50 amWoo fucking hoo. The Muslim world officially hates Denmark and Norway, thanks to some Danish depictions of the prophet, facsimiled in a Norwegian (ultra-Christian) paper. In some places, they burn poorly rendered Danish and Norwegian flags and mill around streets and scream a lot because of that, Danes and Norwegians working in afflicted areas are evacuated for their own safety, and it's a general violent mayhem. Muslims in Norway want the dormant blasphemy act revoked and altered to fit their needs.
See, this is exactly why I loathe organised religion. It creates its own problems, and, amazingly, creates more problems than it solves.
If not someone at some point had gotten it into their head that pictures of god(s) and prophet(s) and such were Bad Things, and worked it into Islamic dogmas, this would not have been an issue. Unfortunately, someone did, and the result is that Muslims all over the damn planet throw tantrums because some artists drew what they imagine said prophet looked like.
All the rubbish in this or that religious practice about not eating lobsters and not lending money and not spilling thy seed upon the ground and not mixing wool and linen and lying around with your arse in the air a zillion times a day and no meat on Fridays and no milkshake with the hamburger and not cutting your hair and not drawing pictures and not putting up curtains in your house and not listening to music and shaving your body but for fuck's sake not your face, it pisses me so incredibly off.
Whatever god you believe in, he/she/it doesn't bloody care.
He/she/it doesn't give a damn about your eating or shaving or drawing habits, because mankind created religion. Religion came to partly to explain baffling natural phenomena, partly for some shrewd people to gain power over their fellow men and women. "Oi, you can't have the juiciest part of the pig, that's taboo to everyone but the chief and the priesthood". "Oi, you can't shag your neighbour's pretty daughter because the priest wants in her pants-equivalents". "Oi, you can't draw a picture because I say so".
I find all this uproar over a few drawings maddeningly irrational and petulant. Unfortunately, it's also quite dangerous.
Did you find this disrespectful? Believe me, it was meant to be. It's about organised fucking religion.
See, this is exactly why I loathe organised religion. It creates its own problems, and, amazingly, creates more problems than it solves.
If not someone at some point had gotten it into their head that pictures of god(s) and prophet(s) and such were Bad Things, and worked it into Islamic dogmas, this would not have been an issue. Unfortunately, someone did, and the result is that Muslims all over the damn planet throw tantrums because some artists drew what they imagine said prophet looked like.
All the rubbish in this or that religious practice about not eating lobsters and not lending money and not spilling thy seed upon the ground and not mixing wool and linen and lying around with your arse in the air a zillion times a day and no meat on Fridays and no milkshake with the hamburger and not cutting your hair and not drawing pictures and not putting up curtains in your house and not listening to music and shaving your body but for fuck's sake not your face, it pisses me so incredibly off.
Whatever god you believe in, he/she/it doesn't bloody care.
He/she/it doesn't give a damn about your eating or shaving or drawing habits, because mankind created religion. Religion came to partly to explain baffling natural phenomena, partly for some shrewd people to gain power over their fellow men and women. "Oi, you can't have the juiciest part of the pig, that's taboo to everyone but the chief and the priesthood". "Oi, you can't shag your neighbour's pretty daughter because the priest wants in her pants-equivalents". "Oi, you can't draw a picture because I say so".
I find all this uproar over a few drawings maddeningly irrational and petulant. Unfortunately, it's also quite dangerous.
Did you find this disrespectful? Believe me, it was meant to be. It's about organised fucking religion.
