"A holy book that’s been shot! R.I.P."
There has been quite a kerfuffle over the last few days when, in Iraq, an unnamed staff sergeant bravely shot a copy of the Koran and wrote an expletive inside it.
This incident has resulted in an apology from George Bush, the sending home of the sergeant (lucky man) and the replacement of the Koran at American Government expense. The village elders have asked for the soldier to be further punished though they haven’t specified exactly what. Perhaps stoning is in order? I’m not sure that the Koran spells out exactly what to do when someone shoots it because, as with the Bible, in the Dark Ages when it was written, guns didn’t exist.
My feeling is that the sergeant should be praised for his bold action. My strong feeling is that all holy books belonging to every religion should be lined up and shot multiple times! My feeling is that if all holy books were shot the world would be a much better place. My reasons?
- All holy books would benefit from some light entering therein.
- Those who profit financially from promoting religion to gullible humans would be seriously disadvantaged by missing words. This would make what they say even more incomprehensible.
- Those who make endless promises to their flock (like life after death) knowing that they are false would finally have their fraudulent argument shot to pieces.
- Those who promote division and hatred between different groups of believers would find lots of holes in their argument.
- Those who fill the minds of superstitious people with fantasies and fear might fear a similar fate once their flock wake up to the gigantic con that all religions are.
Perhaps the armies of the world could become the HBS (holy book shooters). Yes folks, instead of shooting people, their mastery of killing could be put to good use. They could rid the world of that which continues to hold it back, which ties it to childish superstition (as Einstein once said), which divides it.
There could be festivals of holy book shooting across the world followed by wild celebrations as people are finally freed from the palpable nonsense that religion is.
Sergeant What’sHisName should be given a military medal.
Perhaps he should even be made President!
I would build the worlds biggest bonfire of them in the Vatican or build some units out of them and try and unbrainwash the more gullible of our society.
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People still cling to religion like babies to a teat, Lucy.
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Dave G,
While that all of the world religions are false and chain their followers to a life of fear, I do not think that shooting their “holy” books is a good thing to do.
It would be on par with book burning which religions and oppressive political regimes have done throughout history.
The realm of ideas must be free of any suppression. You can not kill an idea with violence.
Ideas battle in the realm of human beliefs and desires.
Bullets and fires will never stamp out an idea or belief.
The only way to fight an idea or belief is by another idea or belief.
It often takes a major life crisis for an idea or belief to be challenged to the point that the person will change their ideas or beliefs.
We may be heading that way for our religions. All three of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim religions believe in the “End of Times.” Fanatics in all three religions are chomping at the bit to get the war of Armageddon on so their particular god can clean things up and make nice with creation.
My guess is we will have the war and there will be no god coming to our rescue. This may be a terrible traumatic experience for the religious extremists and shake them to their very core. This would open the door for throwing out their religious beliefs and accepting new and better ideas and beliefs.
The only probles will be all the death and suffering that will accompany this experience.
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Seems rather a shame, David, that you are suggesting that it is inevitable that the world and most of its people have to pay such a heavy price so that various groups of religious crazies can find out that their beliefs are no more than fantasies.
If religious institutions were broken up and parents stopped from indoctrinating their children with superstitious rubbish, religion would die out very quickly. Surely this would be a better option!
(Ray, take your filthy mouth and your ignorance somewhere else. It’s not welcome here.)
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I don’t think it would be a good idea to burn all the religious books. First, they do have a degree of history about them.
I would hate to see the collection of gnostic writings in the Nag Hammadi, or the Baghavagita, and various other books destroyed. Those gnostic writings were being destroyed at one time, and were hid for hundreds of years. Now, thanks to fundamentalists, we are under threat once again from extreme censorships. Fundamentalists have turned so many people off from even wanting to explore the inner world of humanity. Maybe the native indigenous had it right by having their traditions orally handed down through out the ages.
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