The Fallacies We Hold Dear

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As with any doctrine crafted by man, religion has proven to bear the same moral inadequecies exhibited throughout human history. In many of man's holy books, there is evidence of murder, genocide, revenge killing and worse. There is ample justification for crimes of moral turpitude, and still more justification for punishing the same in fascinatingly barbarous ways. Just as humanity has evolved in thinking, so has the interpretation of religious text, but, with the caveat that any alteration in religious text changes what the attributed creator figure meant to say. 

One of the most literal religions is Islam. Created by an Arab religious, social, and political leader who the world knows as the prophet Muhammad (whose image remains censored for some reason of hadith-er), Islam dominates the lives of entire populations thought the middle East of Asia, Northern Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia. As the regular Muslim would say, it is a way of life.

With such lofty proclamations comes the responsibility for them. As many a terrorist has proclaimed as they wreaked mass murder upon innocent citizenry "Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them," Allah instructs the Prophet Muhammad (Quran, 9:5). He continues: "Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites! ... Hell shall be their home, an evil fate."

In other words, visit violence upon those who don't believe, or who poke fun at your religion, an odd command considering that Allah by being all powerful would actually not deign to provoke some lowly fella into fighting his battles. 

Not that Christianity is any better, having in its purview a god with an unhealthy obsession with infanticide¹'²'³, genocide,² sexual proclivities, abortion⁶ and other human affairs. Reading the Christian Bible may actually be more revolting than reading the scrolls of Tómas de Torquemada based upon the absolutely petty grievances that this benevolent creator seems to bear.

He drowns all life because he's pissed off that humanity has "turned away from him" and then somehow, through the incestuous procreation of the family if 8 that survives the flood, he repopulates the earth. If one were to read the Bible as a story book, they would clearly see who the evil protagonist is (news flash, it is not Lucifer). In every respect, the Abrahamic religions preach that god created man, then man offended him by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, then god cast man out of paradise, have the human death, pain during childbirth, provoked the hitherto peaceful animals to be violent and so on. 

The level of implied control and vengeance here would make an abusive partner blush. And yet, there are billions who believe this crap and live by it. Many Christians today don't advocate a literal interpretation of the Bible, but still others do. This is especially evident in the developing Christian world where religion has bled over into public policy and curtailed social development. 

Religion, despite its attractive face is like a tomb filled with festering carcasses. It might look innocent, even beautiful from afar, but is the most malevolent of all human creations.









¹Psalm 137:9 ESV / 
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

²1 Samuel 15:3 ESV /
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

³Isaiah 13:16 ESV /
Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

⁴2 Kings 15:16 ESV /
At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant

⁵Exodus 1:16 ESV / 
“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

⁶Hosea 9:11-16 ESV /
Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.


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