By Gad ! This idea that all we need to do to live in harmony is to erase religion.
Turn out the churches, mosques, citadels, synagogues, temples and convert them to
apartments, nightclubs, bars and market halls. Or just demolish them all.
Is this really going ro end all wars and bring on Utopia ?
Lets take World War I as an example. Those teenage boys lined up to hack down and be hacked
down. Was it piety, patriotism.. No, it was social stigma which drove
them, like Neanderthals drove the hairy Mammoths off cliff edges to
extinction. World War II, which was even bigger and better than the first installment, wasn't exactly a religious war either.
But in the television series The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins claims that we're ignoring 'the elephant in the room' - the Religions, whose eradication will stop terrorism and war in a future where all bogeymen are dispelled. Its rather shallow thinking.
It makes one wonder who the biggest idiot-thinker actually is - between the religious believer, or Dawkins.
Well, they're both in clover - that's all that passes muster these days - 'paydirt'.
The only idiot is the one who doesn't turn a dime on gibberish talk.
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