I hate stupidity. Actually, I don’t hate it, I loathe it. I’m of the mind that any modern teenager should be sat down and forced to watch Idiocracy, and perhaps even Religulous, purely so that we, as humans, can stop the rot and decline of our mental faculties which are succumbing to a plague I have dubbed “spastic syndrome”.
Why am I telling you how much I hate stupidity? Because quite frankly, I’m fed up.
I’m fed up of pandering to the masses of misguided morons because they, the great unwashed, believe that rumor is truth. I’m fed up of being Politically Correct and walking on egg shells in the fear that I may hurt someone’s feelings. I’m fed up of being beholden to religious institutions that are hundreds, if not thousands of years out of date. I’m fed up with the fact that in the year 2010 a majority of Americans believe that Hong Kong is in Japan (who can also be convinced that all Hong Kongers live in pagodas and ride to work on the backs of Pandas). I’m fed up with the slow rot of the earth and the destruction of the environment when alternatives for a cleaner world exist.
I’m. Fed. Up.
One of the biggest irritations in my everyday life is religion. I’ll be up front with you right now; if you tell me that you are a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, I will call you an idiot. It’s not because I feel there is anything inherently wrong with those beliefs, but more to do with the way in which those beliefs, and the organized institutions surrounding them, are affecting life in the modern world.
Personal God? That’s completely OK with me. Trying to live your life by the 10 commandments? I guess you could do worse. Adhering to the Golden Rule? I’m down with doing unto others. Creating social mores and political systems/parties based on text that was written by men in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE? You, sir, are a fuckwad.
One of the scariest instances of religion having a direct consequence on the real world can be seen in the recruitment of Sarah Palin to Fox News. On first blush this is nothing to worry about (simply the continuation of extreme right wing views that Fox has long espoused), but on further investigation the truth behind Palin’s motives and her reasoning for staying in the public eye are enough to make me almost shit myself in fear. Almost. When I’m not pointing and laughing.
Sarah Palin is an Evangelical. For those of you who have been living in caves for the last decade (say hi to Osama for me), Evangelicalism is the dressed up way of saying “Modern Christian Fundamentalism”. You may remember those Taliban and Al Qaeda guys, they are Muslim fundamentalists; Evangelicals are the Christian equivalent – and there are, quite literally, millions of the fuckers, all over the world.
Think about that for a second. If Islamic fundamentalism is bad, why is Christian fundamentalism any better? The short answer is: it is not. The long answer will take some explaining.
To understand why I loathe evangelicals you need to know what they believe in. Quite simply put, an Evangelical Christian believes in the literal interpretation of the bible. That is to say, they think that the bible is an infallible document which lays out the predictions (100% accurate of course) for Mankind’s future, as well as giving us the real story of how the world was created (Creationism FTW!).
Sure, you may say, plenty of people believe in the bible. My response to you is to take another look at the above paragraph – Evangelicals don not just believe in the bible and the Christian God, they believe in the LITERAL interpretation of the bible. As in, the bible is the final word on all topics. Literally.
I’ll let that sink in for a second.
This is the reason that the evangelical movement is anti-science, anti-homosexuality, anti-modernity, anti-choice; because the bible says these things are wrong. Why would you listen to a rational evidence based argument when an 1800 year old book has told you that an invisible sky man made the world in 7 days? Because, you are told, simply believing in it, and submitting to Jesus means that you get to go to heaven. Not only do you get to go to heaven, but angels will come down and pluck you into the sky while all the wicked people are dying of radiation poisoning below – you can then jeer. Morally acceptable times all round. Apocalyptic Evangelical Cults, so you can be a dick before the afterlife.
Not that being a dick during the rapture has any purpose, because with Evangelical belief you can be a dick right here on earth – as long as you have accepted Jesus. This is why the USA is currently mired in war, and why Iraq was a prime target during the Bush years – because Bush and most of his cronies are Evangelicals. As long as they believe it doesn’t matter. This is perhaps why in Hong Kong most of the upper echelon tycoons are also evangelicals, none of that Catholic/Anglican “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for the rich man to go to heaven” here… They have belief and can consequently go to heaven rich! Lets all go to the Ark Park.
Evangelicals are one of the overriding reasons for the existence of the state of Israel - If Israel does not exist, Armageddon cannot happen. So the Christan Zionists are happy to lend their support to a Fascist, Suppressive, Cruel regime - because hey, the belief system fails if the end time doesn't happen.
No good works, no repentance of sins, and blatant hypocrisy. All you need is to believe. Going back to my original thought, this annoys the ever loving shit out of me.
I know i haven't said enough on the subject, but i should probably be getting back to work.
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Worth pointing out that some of the stuff that evangelists believe actually sin't in the Bible. Homosexuality barely comes up. If it was that important, surely Jesus would have mentioned it, if not banged on about it at length. He didn't. He clearly didn't care, so why should we?
The Bible itself is a very curious document. When I find myself arguing religion with evangelical fucktards, I often find that they quote bits at me. But they only quote the bits they've read. They haven't even read all of the stuff they claim to believe as infallible truth! I have read the whole thing. Cover to cover. And it's quite seriously fucked up in parts, deeply weird, and self-contradictary. If I were an infallible being, I'd write a better book. In fact, I'm not an infallible being, and I could write a better book.
Now, I'm a physicist. I only make claims I can back up (apart from the one about my penis, but i digress...) with real, tangible, repeatable evidence. And if it's shown to be wrong, I change my mind. Meanwhile they cherry-pick the bits they like out of a Bronze Age text. And wonder why I look at them with a mixture of pity and disgust.
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