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The Disservice takes a dim view of most religions with a few notable exceptions (sock-gnome worship is encouraged). Islam takes centre stage many Sundays for no other reason that it promotes ugly, horrible things. Today’s little gem is the proper way to beat your wife and stay on the down-low with allah all at the same time.
Apparently, as long as you are not beating her about the face or breaking bones, its a WIN all the way around. Folks, I realize this theme may be getting old, but the sad fact is that unless we continue to bring the injustices to light, keep the evil firmly in the spotlight, it won’t go away.
We are working toward equality and freedom for women in the West, despite the cancerous religious dogma that conspires against them (thank you religious-right wingnuts).
Darkmatter 2525 is quickly becoming one of my favourite youtube video producers.
Hallelujah! The faith healers of the world prey on the misery and hopelessness of others. Watch the fail in action as the power of the christian faith heals the sick, mends the crippled and gets everyone ice cream and unicorns for the car ride home.
For a dogma based on uncritical belief and an adherence to magic, I guess believing in faith healing is not such a big step.
The correlation between religion and the capacity to do monstrous deeds is again shown by the following clip which describes a few of the honour killings that have happened in Canada since the turn of century. Most certainly patriarchal cultural norms play factor, but it religion that puts the icing on the cake, the ultimate enabler for evil malicious acts.
Canada is a secular multicultural country and to maintain the level of freedom available to the citizens of this nation, the rule of law must remain firmly grounded in reason and rationality. Let it be known that practices whether they come under the aegis of religion or cultural norms will not be tolerated if they violate this countries laws and/or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
When the religious compare their dogma of choice to science it is almost always a grand misrepresentation of what science actually is. One can break it down for them categorically for instance:
religion – requires a belief in magic and the supernatural
science – requires a dedication to finding the evidence and testable facts about our existence.
As a person who is solidly in the second camp let me assure you, I have no need to “believe” in science. One cannot believe in science as one does religion, it is a false equivocation from the outset. My belief in gravity has no effect on whether gravity applies to me or not, and as hard as I might pray to the gravity gods, I will still be attracted toward the center of the Earth(this works for religious prayer to as well in terms of efficacy).
But what would happen if science was actually a religion. Dr.Dawkins investigates this premise in this video
The world wide atheist community has stood up for Damon Fowler. Providing over 20, 000 dollars toward his post-secondary education. What heinous crime has Mr.Fowler committed that resulted in threats to his person, public defamation by his teachers and being kicked out of the family house? Expressing his rights, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, to have his school free of the perversity know as the christian religion. Greta Christina writes about the entire sordid incident, I recommend you read the entire article. I post an excerpt here to illustrate how deeply ingrained the religious rot is in the United States.
“Damon Fowler, an atheist student at Bastrop High School in Louisiana, was about to graduate. His public school was planning to have a prayer as part of the graduation ceremony: as they traditionally did, as so many public schools around the country do every year. But Fowler — knowing that government-sponsored prayer in the public schools is unconstitutional and legally forbidden — contacted the school superintendent to let him know that he opposed the prayer, and would be contacting the ACLU if it happened. The school — at first, anyway — agreed, and canceled the prayer.
Then Fowler’s name, and his role in this incident, was leaked. As a direct result:
1) Fowler has been hounded, pilloried, and ostracized by his community.
2) One of Fowler’s teachers has publicly demeaned him.
3) Fowler has been physically threatened. Students have threatened to “jump him” at graduation practice, and he has received multiple threats of bodily harm, and even death threats.
4) Fowler’s parents have cut off his financial support, kicked him out of the house, and thrown his belongings onto the front porch.
Oh, and by the way? They went ahead and had the graduation prayer anyway.”
Good Times to be had down south. I’ve just wondered though, why isn’t the Tea Party all over this? I mean, this is the US CONSTITUTION that is being violated here, where is the uproar?
**Update: Check out Darkmatter’s video on the subject as well.
Religion is one of the factors that constantly works against civilization and the values of the Enlightenment. Belief in magic and the supernatural, a wish to return to the Dark Ages is remarkable exercise in puerile wish-fulfillment. Strong argumentation, relentless morality and ridicule are the only answers to the plague of religion. The purulent immorality of religion, the suppurating chest wound of humanity, must be expunged.
Christopher Hitchens stands against religion, and in this video shows what must be done, and redone to combat the forces of the anti-rational.
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