A critical look at islam
I don't want to turn this into a religion blog -- I would be ranting about cartoons all the time (I am Danish, after all) -- but just after I posted the atheism talk by Dawkins, I saw this post at the skeptical alchemist: Is moderate Islam a lie? (part I)
Now, before you start threatening my life for insulting the religion of peace (and by the way, Islam does not mean "peace" but "submission", just thought I'd clear that up for you) let me make it clear that Islam is not being picked on in particular here. It is just the religion discussed in the post I spotted.
I would like all religions to get out of my face. Islam annoys me a lot these days, because a lot of muslims refuse to make religion a private matter. I don't care what you believe. Go ahead and worship Jehova, Allah, Santa or Zeus, but stop trying to force your beliefs on me! Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion, damn it!
I'll stop my ranting now. I've already spent more time on religion than it really deserves...
May 28th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Did you like the post? I am curious :)
I find it quite annoying that people keep denying the obvious for the sake of political correctness: a lot of cruelty is sanctioned to be God's will in the Bible, as well as in the Quran - and I am sure in other religious texts too, apart from maybe the Buddhist ones...
I think we are far away enough from the times of the Hammurabi Code to understand that certain approaches to law and social order are better left in the past - where they belong.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:22 am
What I hate most is not that religions sanction cruelty -- so does ideologies -- what makes religions much much worse is that, for some reason, we are asked to respect them. Why? It is fine when I question communism or nazism, but if I criticise a religion I am somehow infringing on human rights. That is crazy!
At least the Hammurabi Code introduced a common law where the rules and punishments were made clear. That was a great achievement, I think.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:00 am
kuffar, be silent!!!! you're racist too.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Ah yes, confusing religion with race is popular in Denmark as well. Personally, I feel that it is okay to discriminate against people incapable of looking up the word in the dictionary ;-)
May 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
While there can be no doubt that religion has helped introduce some sort of reason and common sense in the way we behave now a days, the time for strictly following a code of conduct based on myths and legends should be at an end. Religion is good for some people as an anchor point in their life, but should not be pressed on anyone beyond the following of a faith.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Ah yes, confusing religion with race is popular in Denmark as well. Personally, I feel that it is okay to discriminate against people incapable of looking up the word in the dictionary ;-)
keep looking things up in the dictionary...will be hard when they jail you for HATE CRIMES!!!
May 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Anathema! Anathema!
There is one and only one supreme GOD: the holy spirit of the Funnel
I am a worshipper of the Funnel, when you pour water in a Funnel the spirit of the Funnel make the water abide by its holy powers, gather to the center an run down in an orderly fashion.
However beware of ever offending the holy spirit of the Funnel by handling it upside down, it will take a sour retribution on your insolence by wetting mercilessly your feet.
P.S. Curiously the words "worshipper of the Funnel" seem to be shunned by Google but not by Yahoo, there is a conspiracy against his holiness the spirit of the Funnel, for sure...
May 30th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Good post. I sometimes wonder, after reading about how Muslims operate in the societies they own, if it is even possible to have a "neutral commons" in regard to religion in Islamic lands.
I just say "thank the Gods for America's (relative) secular society" ;)