All the main religions have an old book written by men who had too much time on their hands. All include making women second-class citizens and other atrocities. But burning them won’t make their followers go away.
Right… both derivative of the torah which is derivative of the religions that came out of the Tigris–Euphrates civilizations. Religions, being a social control mechanism, are modified by the environment it has to operate in. The Tigris-Euphrates flooded irregularly, so getting the harvests planted and reaped required strict control of the population and a lot of finger pointing when things went bad. Then, as now, they can’t blame system failure on the leaders, so we end up with cranky old male gods with the manners and morals of a spoiled child. (The last was a Heinlein reference.) Basically the infighting between the three religions are an argument about whose version of the fairy tale is most correct. I prefer not to play…
“When the world can come up with discovery of a deity whose existence withstands rational debate then we can all bend the knee to said deity if that’s what they want”. Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett’s take on gods.In my world I’d ban all religious tomes for the nonsense that they are. Sweden should have rounded up all those protesting and packed them off to their own countries. There’ll certainly be another flare up in the future from the usual suspects.
Article 18 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (subject of today’s Zen pencils, www.gocomics.com/zen-pencils?ct=v&cti=1780971) says:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
It would be nice if it had explicitlyincluded freedom FROM religion!
Odon Premium Member 11 months ago
I’m sure someone has done a comparison of those two books looking at the craziness included in both.
gopher gofer 11 months ago
really. why would you want to burn either, other than just to be a d!ck…?
ibFrank 11 months ago
How much of the Qur’an is the same as the bible?
Grandma Lea 11 months ago
from the Old Testament the Bible, Quran, and the Tanakh; New Testament the Bible and the Quran are very close in their presentation
akachman Premium Member 11 months ago
All the main religions have an old book written by men who had too much time on their hands. All include making women second-class citizens and other atrocities. But burning them won’t make their followers go away.
Random Nick Premium Member 11 months ago
Right… both derivative of the torah which is derivative of the religions that came out of the Tigris–Euphrates civilizations. Religions, being a social control mechanism, are modified by the environment it has to operate in. The Tigris-Euphrates flooded irregularly, so getting the harvests planted and reaped required strict control of the population and a lot of finger pointing when things went bad. Then, as now, they can’t blame system failure on the leaders, so we end up with cranky old male gods with the manners and morals of a spoiled child. (The last was a Heinlein reference.) Basically the infighting between the three religions are an argument about whose version of the fairy tale is most correct. I prefer not to play…
Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago
I agree with Carlin the Great in regards to religion.
Flashaaway 11 months ago
“When the world can come up with discovery of a deity whose existence withstands rational debate then we can all bend the knee to said deity if that’s what they want”. Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett’s take on gods.In my world I’d ban all religious tomes for the nonsense that they are. Sweden should have rounded up all those protesting and packed them off to their own countries. There’ll certainly be another flare up in the future from the usual suspects.
toondel5 Premium Member 11 months ago
Article 18 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (subject of today’s Zen pencils, www.gocomics.com/zen-pencils?ct=v&cti=1780971) says:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
It would be nice if it had explicitlyincluded freedom FROM religion!