It seems popular to take a strong position against any given religion these days, but I’ve noticed that this ‘religion bashing’ trend, similar to other routines in life, are nothing more than finely tuned facades. The attack on religion is another brilliant idea that is designed to appear anti-fascist, open minded, and “secular”, but the attitude in fact takes on the exact opposite of these traits. Protesting religions and/or belief systems allows a person to feel they’re involved in some epic battle that holds deep meaning, but this very attitude has become more of a misguided religion in itself than any other religious group out there. And the amusing detail about those who hold extreme stances against the freedom of religion is that they’re simply protesting the very freedom they not only expect, but are practicing by not having a religion themselves. That is the beauty of freedom, we get to believe what we want!
It’s especially painful to hear people wining about religions, churches, and spiritual traditions when the reality is that if they claim to have no religion themselves, they should be the last people on earth concerned with these issues in the first place. Honestly, why put so much energy into it? For example, you won’t find me going around town boycotting Santa Claus and you know why? Because I know he doesn’t exist! So why put your time and energy boycotting churches, the Koran, the Pope, Buddhism, Judaism, Taoism, or anything else “preaching” to you, when you know them to be delusional in the first place?
Let me be clear that I feel it absolutely necessary to protest any form of injustice, corruption, or criminal activity found to be caused by a particular group of religious or cultist psychos, period. But with that being said, remember that there are thousands of murderers, predators, thieves, and criminals on the news each day who all have one thing in common, they don’t kill in the name of religion. They may have destroyed others lives out of passion, jealousy, greed, lust, insanity, or any other list of emotions, but since we often have no religious group to blame for the atrocities, we will just get upset about these injustices and move onto the real perpetrators; religious groups.
What do you think? Do you think people should have the right to practice their religion? What would be the perfect solution to you? Would it be satisfactory for you to have all the churches shut down and any religious texts burned that are not to your liking?
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