Despite my increasing revulsion for religion and the many religious zealots around, I must commend religion on its grasp of the mind—including that of some of the most intelligent people and those who call themselves moderates.
Surely, religion is the only tool which can make the smartest person in the room fail to use reason and if you want turn a good person into evil without objection, just employ religion. It works everywhere, try it in North Korea, Israel, Iraq or Nigeria and you will get the same result, writes CHRIS-VINCENT on BrutallyUncensored.Com.
In today’s religious communities, there are two obvious groups of people—the fundamentalists and the moderates—and many enlightened persons who for reasons of comfort, indoctrination and a hope of a better afterlife cannot question their faith automatically become moderates.
The moderates believe in many of the 21st century governing principles such as democracy, rule of law, human rights, women rights, gender equality and the many others—all made possible by the increasing notion of secularism and not by any efforts of religion. In fact, religion has always been the main antagonist to the development of these worthy principles.
Since most of the above beliefs sharply contradict some of the required behaviour expected and imposed by the two main monotheistic religions-Islam and Christianity through their Holy Books, the fundamentalists who claim to live by the true meaning of the words find the moderates who are regularly compromising not any better than the unbelievers.
And the moderates somewhat sees the fundamentalists as those unchanged by contemporary development—and as those reading the texts with no amount of flexibility, eventhough flexibility or elimination is not an option when it comes to the religious texts.
So there is this central tension between these two assemblages of believers who are in one sense the same people, following the teachings of one Holy Book—and in another, they define the internal inconsistency and the extent that one is ready to go to accept the barbarism of their Holy Books.
Few weeks ago, a Member of Parliament in the West African democratic country-Ghana boldly suggested in parliament during a Bill deliberation that ‘adulterous women’ should be stoned—and that this punishment which is being used in many religious States who regard themselves as ‘States of God’ should be adopted in Ghana.
From every angle of the country, he was met with attacks—and both the religious and non-religious condemned him for his suggestion and ‘supposed’ contempt of women. His fellow parliamentarians struck him down and I can perfectly imagine the isolation he faced until he later came out to apologize for his ‘not 21st century’ statement.
Here, there is a clear consensus that, stoning of anybody—be it a woman or a dog to death should not be part of our civilization and we must treat with gross contempt, any attempt to have us consider this.
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