Happiness and Rage...
The beloved 'ding have won again! Beat blood and thunder Sheffield United with an ultra quick-fire goal (16 seconds to be precise) by Kev Doyle, followed by a sweet strike by Seol. Which currently means we're doing better than Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham mwa ha ha ha. I realise we've met none of the big'uns yet, but let's live the dream!
Now a quick rage on current affairs - namely this Pope and Islam shenanigans. Two little things I need to get out:
1) The media - will you please stop, so regularly and so tiresomely, misquoting, and taking out of context, what people have to say about each other. Inciting conflict, hatred, ignorance and panic, for the sake of a good story, is about as responsible as chucking bricks off a motorway bridge. Bahh!
2) Religious types (and dare I say it, particularly Islamic ones) - why oh why are you so f****** humourless, so very reactionary, so very keen to be wronged?? We are all welcome to personal faith, I'm sure, but why must God be such an unsmiling old tyrant? It's almost as if the scriptures that you pore over with such zeal, were written hundreds of years ago by a bunch of ignorant, misogynistic... oh hang on...
Now a quick rage on current affairs - namely this Pope and Islam shenanigans. Two little things I need to get out:
1) The media - will you please stop, so regularly and so tiresomely, misquoting, and taking out of context, what people have to say about each other. Inciting conflict, hatred, ignorance and panic, for the sake of a good story, is about as responsible as chucking bricks off a motorway bridge. Bahh!
2) Religious types (and dare I say it, particularly Islamic ones) - why oh why are you so f****** humourless, so very reactionary, so very keen to be wronged?? We are all welcome to personal faith, I'm sure, but why must God be such an unsmiling old tyrant? It's almost as if the scriptures that you pore over with such zeal, were written hundreds of years ago by a bunch of ignorant, misogynistic... oh hang on...
posted by TheMightyDing at 22:58
3 Comments:
The more I think about religion, the more it makes me want to headbutt a brick wall. Personal faith, no problem, but this utter reliance on out-dated, misogynistic and badly translated texts, just drives me up the wall!
Islam naturally suffers under the weight of colonial history, but as you say - also the fact that many have been brainwashed by Saudi 'doctrine'. The fact that the Saudi royal family ship out their firebrand cock-and-bull 'Islam', whilst making good on the excessive wealth procured from dealing with the west, makes it even more vomit-worthy.
absolutely shocking generalisations about islam here.. :o
Blimey my first attempt at current affairs blogging has caused some debate...!
Well anonymous, I fear denying that imported Wahhabi Islam is not having a profound influence on many young Muslims in the UK and elsewhere, is foolish indeed.
And as to humourless amongst "religious types" (not just Muslims) I truly think that those who devote themselves wholeheartedly to a belief system have a higher chance than average of a sense-of-humour bypass. Fair enough, I'm basing that on a scientific study of one, but I'm willing to stand by it until proved otherwise.
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