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The intro to an article I wish I had written.
How is that a man can leave a 140-page manifesto describing, in explicit detail, how much he hates women, why he hates women, why he thinks women deserve to be punished, and precisely how he plans to punish them — and then his subsequent killing spree is attributed to everything but misogyny?
Honestly, I’m sure it’s tempting to shy away from that painful truth. It’s comforting to pretend that future killings can be prevented just by making mental health care more easily accessible, or by locking up all the guns. Just like it’s comforting to pretend that rape can be prevented if women just wear modest clothes and cover our drinks. Acknowledge that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was grounded in misogyny, and we have to acknowledge that preventing such tragedies isn’t about changes in laws —- it’s about changes in society, in a culture that supports the idea that women are objects and sex with a woman is a man’s god-given entitlement.
Misogyny is the issue.
[ed. Trigger Warning for child abuse.]
Christianity doesn’t have a clue what love is. It starts by fucking up the notion beyond all recognition right off the bat. God’s “love” is so great that if you swear eternal obedience and submission, he won’t torture you until the end of time, even though he knows full well you deserve it, you despicable mortal you. This ultimate perversion of love makes it possible for christians to say any atrocious action could be done “out of love”.
At it’s mildest, you have your run-of-the-mill bigots and misogynists, smiling sweetly as vile hatred pours out of their mouths. Middle of the road, we get people like the West Borrow Baptists who don’t bother with the duplicity of smiling or making the vitriol sound nice. They tell people flat out they deserve to burn and suffer endlessly in hell. Out of love, of course. The last step is to go beyond words to express christian “love” and demonstrate it physically, to the point murder if need be.
‘To Train Up a Child’ is a horrendously vile book, authored by a loathsome duo of wretches that the world would be better off without. That bears demands repeating. Michael and Debi Pearl, the repugnant writers of this appalling book, should not exist; the utter obliteration of their influence on our society would be an immeasurable boon. The teachings in their book, which include such deplorable tidbits like telling parents to starve and beat their children to break them into obedience, has resulted in yet another child’s murder.
In a story that caused a nauseating sense of deja-vu, another set of parents have been convicted of murder. The parents, looking to their faith for guidance on how to raise their children, took to heart the teachings of Michael and Debi Pearl and their ‘No Greater Joy’ ministry. As a result, 13 year old Hana Williams died after three years of abuse.
Malnutrition, hypothermia, severe beatings, all part of the program that has lead to at least three cases of parents killing a child while adhering to the advice from the Pearls. I say ‘at least’ as that’s how many I’ve read about. I can only imagine the actual number of horror stories that have resulted from the malicious filth spread by these “loving” christians.
Is it a fringe element, just a few nutcases following a pair of backyard loons? Nope. The Pearls run a very successful ministry, bringing in an estimated $1.7 million a year. They are also the tip of the iceberg. Evangelicals adopting foreign children in order to ‘save their souls’ are an infestation of child abuse and neglect. The christian ‘spare the rod’ doctrine is as mainstream as it can get and it’s killing kids.
Christianity is vile, its idea of love is deplorable, and its witless followers are a threat to the innocent. Because monstrous brutality for your tyrannical “god” isn’t just old testament stuff, as many apologists would have you believe. It is born-again and murdering children for the glory of jebus!
Fuck.
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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.
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