Religion

There's a reason God is never accepted as a witness in a court trial, well, someone claiming "God told me to ....". It's unprovable either way. A court room examines what can be proven with evidence beyond any doubt. Imagine what would happen if someone claiming the word of God was taken as true.

I've noticed a very strange similarity between religion, and closed source applications sold on an affiliate system. Religion as a concept appears to be the ultimate in proprietary affiliate programs; nobody sees the final product, the code is obfuscated and it's salespeople are very competitive in converting people, or damning people to hell if they notice any bugs in the code.

Why do some of us exploit the young, in brainwashing religious beliefs and indoctrination into them at an age where they can't see it for what it is? By the time they develop the skills to overlay "reality" onto any given story, they've already been used to thinking that it doesn't apply to religion", that somehow religious text is indisputable fact, no matter how silly.

A few things struck me about the Pope's visit to the UK, from the way it's funded, the complaints about being marginalised, or the anti-Christian bias in the media, to the constant denial of the real issue of paedophile Priests.

There's a constant battle between religious institutions and those who live in the current century over which laws should govern us all. The one I'm looking at today is the UK's Equality Bill, which will prevent religious institutions from discriminating against people which their dogma allows or encourages. They are outraged that they would no longer be able to condemn people and want to be exempted. I have another solution, which they may not like.