The Monthly Taboo Break

Nr. 2 in a series on displaced problems in human behaviour

Killer Religions

Religious zealots are the real mass killers, war makers and destroyers of the planet. They have been, they are and they will continue to be the major threat to world piece, either directly with their fights for supremacy under the cloak of religion or, indirectly by forging sabotage against targets of family planning.

Have you noticed how much of the never-ending horror of war, terrorism and general violence is committed by groups claiming their religious belief to be the one and only gate to truth and eternal life?

All religious beliefs owe their existence to one dilemma deep in the abyss of the human soul: The Fear of Death and of What Comes After! On this premise men have built incredible myths about humanoid gods and the promise of a happy "life" in his (why not her?) presence after death. All of the traditional religions stagnated in an epoch when the earth was the centre of the Universe and man was thought to be the crown of creation. None of the current religions seems to have acknowledged what has since happened in the world of science.

Although most religious core groups may decline violence caused by stray fractions, their own history - the history of mankind in fact - is full of glorification to those who killed others in order to expand their own credo.

None of the modern religions takes a firm standing against war and violence - at least not against that variety which is declared in their own particular favour.

None of the current religious beliefs has yet awoken to the major threat faced by the planet today: The population catastrophe. On the contrary: Most of them applaud the increase of birth rates simply because it improves their own chances to dominate the wrong-believers.

Women are the natural enemies of war. No sorrow is greater than losing to senseless war a child they have brought up with years of love. The reaction of religions is to deprive women of their civil rights. Let them be the mothers of the revolution, let them serve the men and first of all, let them bear cannon-fodder.

If women were given a better status to participate in state, social and family matters, the world would benefit in three ways:

 

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