July 7, 2010 0

On Sharia and the fanatics of Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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Among all other countries that are blights upon the Earth, and there are many, I believe Saudi Arabia and Iran to be among the worst. If you a resident of these countries, I pity you. That is not to say that there are not good people in either country – there are many of them, and I applaud them for being brave enough to remain in their countries despite the fanatics and zealots that they’re surrounded by. The worst offense, in my eyes, is their punishment of women – there are countless stories of rape victims being publicly shamed and lashed with no punishment meted out to the rapists. The Sharia law that these countries have implemented are crimes against humanity, and they must stop.

There are some people that deserve death, and in my eyes, fanatics such as the political and religious leaders of these two countries are worthy of it. It is for people like these that I sometimes wish there is a hell, even though I know there is not, because eternal torment is the only just reward for people such as these.

I would also like to write about the Hijab, the muslim dress that covers most of a woman’s body. No matter how many Muslim women say that it is empowering, or that they enjoy it, they are lessering themselves because of it. A woman who becomes a stripper because she feels that it is empowering is deluded and foolish, similar to Christian women who believe their only purpose is to bring Christian babies into the world. Despite that, I believe women should be allowed to wear the Hijab, if only because it’s their right. They should never be forced to, or made to feel that they must or face reprecussions. Many women have had acid thrown in their face because it was uncovered, a crime that should be punishable by death.

Back to the topic of the leaders of Iran and Saudi Arabia – there are only a few ways I can think of removing them from power. In Saudi Arabia there are 25 guns for every 100 citizens, and in Iran there are 5 per 100. In Saudi Arabia, revolution could possibly bring about change, but it’s far from likely – in Iran it is even less likely. A more logical solution would be the surgical assassination of extremists in both countries. This would cause the least political blow-back, but it would do little good in the long run – there will be plenty of extremists to step up and take the reigns of their psychotic leaders. Cut out only a small portion of the cancer and it will grow back anew, and, in this case, more angry for having part of it removed.

Picture this, however – a house is infected with poisonous spiders. Pretend there is no pest control in this hypothetical world – no poisons or fumigation. One approach would be to take the valuables and belongings from the house, and then burn it down. In this case, the valuables would be the intelligent and rational people, the men and women who don’t throw acid in women’s faces and then rape them. The spiders would be the rest of the citizens, the zealots who are brainwashed past the point of no return. Fire is an integral part of the boreal ecosystem – the forest would grow back, better than before. Obviously, this option is unfeasible – it would be extremely difficult to transport millions of people out of these countries without alerting the leaders. However, not impossible. I do not advocate this measure except for the most extreme circumstances, however.

Another solution would be the conquest and annexation of these two countries, different from the quagmire of Iraq and Afghanistan. Sharia would be overthrown and we would rule in place of the leaders – at least, until the next generation grows up and is able to lead with a clear head – as Senators and Congressmen. The crimes against humanity committed by the leaders of these countries, time and time again, has proven that they are unfit to rule themselves. The first priority would be the education of the next generation, to teach them, and convince them, that their ancestors were wrong, and allow them to learn and to think without the judgmental eyes of their leaders upon them.

All of the solutions I have mentioned are unsavory, because I can think of few others that would be effective – there are no easy solutions to this problem, only hard ones. Arguing for the sanctity of life is all good and well, but naive. Some people should simply not contribute to the human gene pool, and, on top of that, are too far gone to be anything but mortal enemies to those that would see reason, justice, and freedom prevail.

July 5, 2010 0

On atrocities comitted by the Christian religion.

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Christians have committed many atrocities in the name of God, nobody can claim otherwise without ignoring the truth. Sure, there are many Christians that are good people and that don’t push their religion on others, but the Christian religion is, without a doubt, an evil force in the world. If a Nazi also happens to be a good man, one who has never personally killed any Jews, and has never done any wrong, does that excuse the fact that he’s a Nazi? That his “cause” has tortured and killed and raped millions?

Jesus of Nazareth was, as far as I can tell from history, a good man. He never hurt anyone, condemned gays to death, murdered anyone, or raped a “non-believer” in the name of god. He went into the temples and protested the commercialization of the process, and yet today churches make millions from believers, their priests and bishops live in mansions and make a living piggybacking off their religion, would not Jesus be ashamed?

Jesus believed that men and women were equal under the eyes of god, it was only later prudish Christians that developed the sexist ideas that women are unclean and sinful, which led to the persecution and degradation of women everywhere over Christian history.

We can not ignore the instances of genocide in Christian history, happening even just a short while ago with the Serb genocide of Bosnian Muslims. Many peaceable Christians will argue that genocide is from the Old Testament and that the New Testament decries it, but this does not matter. The Old Testament is still half of your bible, and millions have been slaughtered because of it. If the Old Testament is wrong, why not simply strike it from the bible altogether? Of course, this would removethe argument against homosexuals, even though the argument against gays is already ludicrous. If homosexuals should be denied a place in our society, you should also be stoning disobedient children, refraining from eating shellfish, as well as a few dozen other archaic, asinine rules that no Christian follows. Christians that are against homosexuality are simply homophobic and prejudiced, something Jesus fought against. Gays are not corrupting our society, Christians are.

The Pope recently lied to Africans, claiming that condoms don’t protect against AIDS and that it actually makes it worse. This could cause millions to die, and it’s akin to a war crime. The Pope is nothing more than a criminal and a monster in my eyes, no better than Popes in the past that caused murder on a mass scale. It also doesn’t change the fact that everyone ignores, that the current Pope was once a Nazi. He must find the organizations very similar. The Church is also responsible for the completely failed concept of abstinence only education and ruining the lives of many teen girls by denying abortions and humiliating the girls that do seek them, even rape victims. The psychotic suppression of sexuality is comical in light of the perversions of the Catholic church, including the systematic rape of little boys. Their stance against abortion, that “life is always precious”, has not stopped them from murdering many in the past, including the murder of an abortion doctor. The radical Christian and Republican news organization, Fox News, even applauded this murder. I see an obvious parallel between FOX News and the news organizations in Rwanda that eventually called for genocide. If you think FOX News is harmless, consider this: the Nazis started out persecuting Jews by mocking them in comics and other medias. Everyone knows how that turned out.

If anyone reading this is Christian, know this: you may be a wonderful person who helps people on a daily basis. But that does not excuse the fact that you are a part of a criminal organization that has caused horrific things to happen in the world. Religion, not just Christianity, is a crutch for those afraid of death. I wish there was an afterlife, I really do, just like I wish for a million dollars to fall out of the sky. But I don’t think it’s going to happen. You need to live your life without being a part of this horrible organization and take solace in doing good deeds instead of praying to a god that is probably not there. Any god that condemns people to an eternal hell simply for not believing is not a just god. Neither is one that has the power to cause much good in the world, if he existed.

As Bertrand Russell said, “My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.”

I would also like to note the recent popularity in the radical Christian Right, as recently they’ve gone so far as to rewrite history, in the case of Texas. What they’re doing is deplorable, they’re changing history to suit their religion and their party by pretending that this nation should only be a Christian one. These people deserve to be in jail.

I would also like to address the radical Christian who murdered a Jew outside of a museum. I would draw your eyes, also, to the “Tea Party” protesters who protest everything our current President does. They claim it’s because of taxes, but what about the massive costs of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars? It’s my opinion that the Tea Party, composed almost entirely of white Christians, are paranoid racist radicals and have been stirred into action by the lies of FOX news. We shall see how long it takes for FOX news to begin calling for murder, especially since these Tea Party protesters have already marched on Washington with guns. If any other group did this, they’d be gunned down by the army.

July 4, 2010 0

Steps toward a utopian society.

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Economic inequality is the inevitable byproduct of almost all societies, save for egalitarian societies in which there is usually little to no money at all. We’ve come to accept this as just how the world is, but we can always strive for change. Because I live in America, the country with the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world, I will apply my ideas to American society in an effort to imagine a more Utopian society.

The first change would be to make higher education free, so that entrance into prestigious colleges is based only on test scores instead of financial means. Some of you may argue that this would cause the quality of schools and teachers to deteriorate, but the better teachers would gravitate towards the schools with more intelligent students, and more tax money would be appropriated towards the better colleges.

However, if everyone is educated in specialized areas, how will America fulfill its need for cheap labor? Who will work the low wage, menial jobs that nobody wants to do? First, there will always be many people in America that lack the intelligence to do well in college. Second, with an increase in intelligence of the general populace, there will be increases in technology that make unskilled labor less needed. For example, in the past a large percentage of the population were agriculturalists. Now less than 1% of the population works on farms.

Another cost of unskilled labor would be prisons – America spends over 60 billion dollars a year to imprison over 2 million inmates. The current prisons are incredibly ineffective, with taxpayers earning no return. Dangerous criminals such as rapists are often out in a few years while harmless ones, such as many drug offenders, are sentenced to extraordinarily long prison terms. We could organize prisoners into more effective work groups in order to get some of our costs back, but they would, of course, have to be supervised. I’m also of the opinion that imprisoning dangerous criminals is not working – people such as rapists and dangerous murderers should be executed. There is no rehabilitation for them. Drug use should also be ignored – if someone hurts only himself and no others, then I believe they are well within their rights.

If one was thinking of the betterment of society, one would also come to the conclusion that redistribution of wealth is very much needed. I’m not talking about a society where everyone makes the same amount of money, but a society where yearly income over a certain amount is appropriated by the government and redistributed to the lower classes – maybe over a million or so. Republicans may cry, “socialism,” but what is so attractive about greed? Does one really need several private airplanes to enjoy life? One principal of America is that anyone can rise to the top, but very, very few actually do – almost everyone that is born within a class marries and also dies within that class. This has little to do with ability and much to do with wealth – poor people don’t have the funds to attend college, and wealthy people inherit their fortune without doing any real work. We’ve acknowledged that monarchies are wrong – the son of the current president should not succeed him. So, why is it different with wealth? Inheritance over a few million should be redistributed to the less lucky citizens – people that inherit wealth are rarely productive citizens of society.

The age of the internet has changed the world in many ways, and I propose that we limit the power of the current leaders in government – the senate, the house of representatives, and congress, and turn to the people directly. With the internet available to almost everyone, everyone could now vote on issues with minimal effort and organization on the part of the government – using a website. The current elite politicians would still be elected and still make decisions, but their power would be limited to mostly an advisory role – proposing the issues that the people would decide and then putting them into place. This is the only way the people would ever truly have a voice, politicians pandering to people to get elected and then serving their own agendas has not worked in the past, and it will not work in the future. Some would argue that many of the people today lack the knowledge and intelligence to make decisions that would affect all, but if the changes in the education system I proposed were made this would not be a problem.

There are many changes that would follow these in the creation of a Utopian society. If we wish to halt the degradation of society we must take action, before the extremist views of a few rich men are allowed to destroy everything we have. If the lower and middle classes were more educated and held more power, there would be less religious fervor, less prejudice, and less manipulation of the weak and stupid by politicians. A cultural renaissance would follow.