Religion is dangerous.

One can arrive at that conclusion just by reading the sundry magic books and see the horror that they proscribe.  Rape, slavery, torture and genocide round out biblical and koranical ‘solutions’ for societies problems.  A rational being must question the veracity and utility of texts written some two thousand years ago.  How does bronze age wisdom ‘fit’ with modern times and the challenges we face?   Put simply, there is no fit, yet these fictive texts possess remarkable traction with many people.  One must credit the church’s programs of propaganda and the institutional indoctrination of the young for religions’ unfortunate longevity.

I think the problem that religions are facing today is that the mendacious rosewater the major religions have been using to mask the river of shit routinely fed to the devout masses now simply fails to hide the intrinsic cruelty and barbarity that is inherent in religious belief.  The one thing that religions cannot tolerate is careful rational examination.  The Internet allows for the safe uncensored debate of almost any religious issue; and subsequent analysis is then generally free from religious reprisal.  People can freely discuss the merits of the magic books openly and are not meekly accepting any particular religion’s claims at face value.

The Internet is where Religions come to die, because their rotten structures can be exposed for the malicious structures that they are.  One of the more diabolical religious practices comes from the ‘religion of peace’ otherwise known as Islam is the so called honour killing of women who bring shame to their families.  To expunge this shame, women who are raped, violate arranged marriages or even dress inappropriately can be killed to restore ‘family honour’.

People who say that Feminism has ‘achieved its goal’ really need to open their eyes and take a look at the world around them.  Patriarchy thrives within the suppuratingly rotten edifice of religious belief.  The struggle for women’s rights in far from over because things like this still happen within our supposedly civilized society.

“The father and brother of Aqsa Parvez, 16, have pleaded guilty to killing the Mississauga, Ont., teenager in 2007.

Muhammad Parvez and Waqas Parvez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday and now face automatic life sentences.”

Father and son, both religiously frakking deluded embark upon the grizzly task of cleaning their families’ honour by killing Aqsa Parvez.  It make perfect sense after all, she went against her Father’s wishes.  And what were the great stains against the Father and the Son?

“Aqsa Parvez wanted to get a part-time job and be allowed to dress and act like other teenage girls in her neighbourhood… [Furthermore Aqsa] “did not have a door on her bedroom, her freedom to talk on the phone with friends was restricted, she was required to come straight home from school and expected to spend her evenings and weekends at home as well.”

Wow, just like in the Old Country where Men were people and Women were slaves.  And we do know the consequences for habitually disobedient chattel women:

“On Dec. 10, 2007, Aqsa was taken from the school bus stop by her brother at approximately 7:20 a.m. It was just 36 minutes later that her father called 911 and told police he had “killed his daughter.”

Police arrived and found Aqsa on her bed.

“She was fully clothed and had her jacket on. She had no vital signs. There was blood coming from her nose,” according to the statement.  She was pronounced dead later that evening.”

Aqsa had been staying away from home, she had known before that her life was in jeopardy, and had taken refuge at friends houses and a shelter.  Her demise was hastened by religiously addled relatives who convinced her to go home again.

“In an interview with police, she says her husband told her he killed his youngest child because “this is my insult. My community will say, ‘You have not been able to control your daughter.’ This is my insult. She is making me naked.”

A big hat tip to Islam for being so frakking rational.  Religion enables this sort of gross violation of human rights, and needs to extirpated from rational secular democracies such as ours.