I generally
have no concern for the pronouncements of film critics. I wouldn’t recognize most actors if they
introduced their selves, licked my hand, and told me how much my attendance at
their film meant to them.
There is a
growing problem in today’s world that can only be addressed by dragging some
states into the 21st century and then dragging religion out of the
political milieu. The idea that religion
has any role in modern government is grossly incorrect.
Religion,
correctly identified as a crutch by Marx, grew into being in an effort to
explain natural phenomena in a world missing higher mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biology, and other scientific disciplines that do explain, very
adequately, natural phenomena. The addition
of a priest class that made a very good living by appearing to intercede
between human kind and the sky fairies that were imagined to control the
workings of the universe; went a long way toward retaining a belief in those
supernatural deities that might intercede in the physical world if enough
supplication and sacrificial donations happened.
The general
shakedown into 5 or 6 major religions that dominate such behaviors on planet
Earth led to the sequential development of three desert-borne cults that tried
to sell monotheism, direct visitation by prophets that swap behaviors, and that
in the case of the latest developing 2, insist each is the only true pathway
into some form of paradise at some undisclosed location invisible to any not
directly invited by a deity. These two
also share the concept of endless punishment for failure to believe, to affirm,
and to behave according to a peculiar version of a badly translated collection
of bad verse and allegories borrowed from an even older collection of sky-borne
rules.
What this has
led us to is a situation in which the cult leaders of Islam have inculcated
enough of their minions with the idea that a particular prophet is such a magical power that any mention of
its name, any refusal to believe as the most radical cult members do, requires
the cult members to riot, destroy property, kill people, and generally behave
as if non cult members must be forced to behave as if they, too, believed in sky faeries and have no ability to
think for their selves or to understand that outside their mosques and meeting
halls, no one particularly cares what names, images, pictures, or insults are
linked with the name Muhammad.
To be fair, I
also could care less what similar behaviors are used when other imagined
deities are mentioned. Draw a picture of
the Jesus faerie, paste it on a dog a donkey, or a caricature of a pope or
priest who was extraordinarily evil, and ask me if I need to riot. I may fall over laughing, but I will not be
at all concerned about who attempts to insult which leader of whatever cult
happens to be failing miserably to oversee the universe.
Today’s news
tells me that riots and embassy attacks are happening in 11 nations, which
allow Islam to interfere in government.
We need to protect our diplomats and our facilities. Beyond that, we have no obligation to behave
as if we are so poorly educated as to fit in to cultures that allow fictitious
deities to interfere in our national affairs.
The
fundamentalist Muslims, Christians, and Jews who are now interfering with the
work of many governments worldwide need to be made to understand that the
United States is not founded upon any religious platform and will not limit its
citizens freedoms at the insistence of any religious fanatic belonging to any
cult. It is time for Islam and its
followers to join the 21st century, time for modern nations to
ignore the demands of any religious cult and to demand that cult members follow
the rules of law and civil order.
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