Rational people have only to listen to the first 25 seconds of this video to realize why some choose to fly airliners into buildings, blow themselves up at markets, behead adulteresses, shoot doctors in the back, or deny gay couples a little joy in their lives.
When GOD becomes the TOTALITY OF EXISTANCE, WHO ALONE MATTERS, to which EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING MUST OBEY AND BELONG, and for whom WE LIVE ONLY TO GLORIFY. When such totalitarian fervor is preached, chanted, sung, or shouted from pulpits and minerates, trouble follows, like the surge before the wind causing the most lasting damage. Damage to all things seen and unseen.
In the Old Testament, the Ten Commandments ask us to give God one day a week, about 14% of our time. Established religions expect us to give them about 10% of what we earn in tithing.
But when religion completely takes control of the human mind…
Before I get in too much trouble I defer to Herman Melville who has a better way with words.
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in, then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.” Ishmael – From Moby-Dick
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