Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay -robert frost-
Friday, June 01, 2007
- 5:29 pm
well here goes. a bit more in the fight against the repression of religion.
i can do little other than express my tremendous disgust at the verdict of the lina joy case in malaysia. this joy woman apparently lost a case to remove the islam on her ic and replace it with her new religion, and will now possibly face a charge of apostasy under muslim religious law, i.e she faces jail time and a fine. the defence? "you have to respect the rules and conventions of the religion"- utter rubbish considering the fact that islam wasnt a selective choice on her part. being born into a religion is a most damnable thing, considering the fact that you have no choice in the matter. many people are breathing huge sighs of relief, saying that the will of the majority has been upheld; and this reveals a huge flaw in the workings of democracy. how dare they measure the choices and rights of another individual by their standards; how dare they punish and bind her to their beliefs because they feel that thats how it should be. perhaps theres more than just a little to be learnt from the old USSR, which removed religion from the societal mainframe. dont you dare tell me who i can or cannot worship- or force me to believe in any religion at all. as a staunch atheist i am very pro-choice; and so this malaysian refusal to allow this singular individual the basic right to freedom of worship strikes me as very wrong; completely abhorrent. i respect the right that people have in choosing their own beliefs, their own religion and seeing religion pressed upon a person who by all accounts has no faith in it is completely ridiculous. shes leaving the country soon, and all power to her for doing so because this just shows us how backward and repressive malaysia is as a country.
it was once said that when one person is self delusional, its called insanity, but when a large number of people are self delusional it is generally referred to as religion and i subscribe to that school. personally i believe the various religions are just a collective bunch of fairy tales used to bind people together, control and use them. mormons take 10% of your monthly income and this other stupid christian organisation takes 20%. yes, god wants your money to spend on his cadillac and women. but thats just what i think. if you believe otherwise, then by all means do so! i couldnt care less. but i feel outraged when it is pressed upon a person because i tend to wonder what i'd do were i in that persons position. id probably leave the country and decry their backward institutions and values. ridiculous.
then again, when you're surrounded by intellectual degenerates you tend to withdraw into your own world and glean what comfort you can from within the confines of your mind. heres looking at you, NS.
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