Don't Mention The War!

If you have ever seen the brilliant sitcom, Fawlty Towers, you may remember the scene where Basil (John Cleese) keeps talking about the war to a bunch of German customers. He then goes into the kitchen to announce to the rest of the staff, “Don't mention the war! I did once but I think I've got away with it!”

I had a conversation today (more like an argument) with a man who thinks that you should keep quiet and not say things that will upset people. Sorry, but everything you say and do will upset someone. I was ranting about the news today, about the mindless troglodytes Isis or whatever they call themselves. They had a child shoot a man in the head at point blank range: this is nothing more than fascism. They hate everything that is not them, in fact, they even hate what is them! 

The man I argued with said that these people don't represent the majority of Muslims. Sorry, they do! Like all religions, it's based on ignorance and fear. It worryingly claims to be the final religion, so no more can follow. This is a religion that was supposedly told to an illiterate war merchant by God! He then remembered every word, which he then passed on to his devoted, blinded followers. The religion is, like all religions, intolerant to free speech and free thinking. Why would a supreme being be bothered about who you slept with or what you ate, or on what day you ate it? This religion is a rehash of all the other middle-eastern religions. If you are part of it, you agree that to leave it is punishable by death! That if you are gay, it is punishable by death, and to call the so-called prophet is also punishable by death! These are facts about this religion. If you believe this religion, you also must believe these bigoted, retarded views of life! Like all religions, children are indoctrinated from birth, and like the Jewish religion, the Muslims practice genital mutilation on their male children. To circumcise a child for no reason is mutilation!

The man that I was arguing with today said that I shouldn't speak out about this religion, as there could be dire consequences. This is strange because the very same thing was said to people in Germany in the thirties and Forties. We have to speak out: we have to show our outrage that such barbaric acts could be tolerated in the name of anything! If I were writing this blog in the thirties I would be writing about the catholic church, which aligned itself with the Nazis. You know the church I mean, the loving, peaceful, turn-the-other cheek religion, that didn't only turn a blind eye to the massacre of millions of innocents but, by aligning themselves with the perpetrators, sanctioned the killings.

Having been through all they have endured, not only in the thirties and forties but throughout history, you'd think the Jewish nation of Israel would be the most forward thinking and tolerant country on earth. But unfortunately they behave like their tormentors when it comes to the problems with Palestine. The Old Testament, as it is known in the Christian religion, is full of genocide, where races are decimated in the name of their God. To be fair to them, their God only tortured them while they were alive - he left them alone once they died. It was that peace-loving carpenter that introduced eternal damnation and suffering!

I get really angry when people tell me that we need religion for our morals! Where are the morals of all these people who kill in the name of a so called supreme being? The supreme being that gives children bone cancer! Lets women live as second class citizens. Lets millions die a slow painful death of starvation. Remember he/she is an all knowing all seeing being, therefore it knew before these people were born that they would suffer and die this way! This supreme being also lets young children shoot another human being in his name and does nothing about it! I don't want to be part of any such practice, if your loving and tolerant God is going to punish me for eternity because I'm not prepared to worship him, then so be it, as they say!

It amuses me when people say they distrust those with no religion. Everyone on Earth is an atheist; no one worships Zeus or Venus any more, or any other of the thirty thousand gods that have fallen out of favour. I just don't worship one more God than you, if you are a believer.

I am sick of people hiding behind religions to commit acts against humanity, ALL RELIGIONS force people to live abnormal lives. The restrictions placed on the followers are not normal, and the hate and fears it teaches are also not normal. We as humans are unfortunately predisposed to a bit of the supernatural. We love the idea of an afterlife and of a supreme being that answers our every prayer, except for the ones where your loved one is dying of a horrible insidious disease which he gave them. There is no rationale to gods, demons, ghosts or bogeymen, we just want them to be true. We practice rituals to please them which at best are quite silly or at worst are a mental illness.

Throughout history there have been crusades, where one religion feels they must inflict their stupidity on others who are usually blissfully happy without their fearful gods. We here in the west are the worst offenders of this, but now a new group of hateful, bigots is trying to oppress people with their beliefs, and we cannot go back to the thirties, where we turned a blind eye to people being massacred in the name of a retarded ideology. We cannot be afraid to speak out against these people and if it offends people, then they, too, are part of the problem. How can a reasonable, intelligent person not speak out against such a fascist mindless bunch of killers?!