It's rather ironical to hear the Vatican preaching to Asia when in its own backyard, they are using kid's glove to handle the accusations of their own men of God indulging in such acts! Wonder if the Vatican has gone off tangent in pointing their fingers at Asia when they have been resisting calls for harsher penalty or even carry out investigations if the allegations are true! Anyway we leave it to God to judge them and also take in good faith that the Church is sincere is this appeal and doing something to fight against child abuse.
Closer to home, BolehLand folks are ever so familiar with how off tangent man is with God's will. It doesn't take a maths genius or to learn it in Bahasa Melayu or English to add up the many instances of actions by our 'holy' men whose actions have been off tangent with God and even civil society. Of course, our religious people will say God's action is above that of civil society and even if the holy fellows carry out actions deemed barbaric, they are to these holy men, in tangent with God and carry out His will.
The latest we hear is from a political party who has many times been a Party Against Sanity when they begin their ritual lover's bashing on a celebration called Valentine's Day. Wonder if religious opportunists are going to use VD as an indirect Christian bashing again, accusing the Christians of advocating and encouraging pre or extra marital sex!
With Valentine's Day due in a week, PAS has again pledged to put a stop to the celebration.Its leaders, including PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hassan at-Tantawi, said it must be stopped as it would lead to immoral activities.His deputy Nik Abduh Nik Aziz wants the Government to place anti-Valentine Day's advertisements on television to discourage Muslims from celebrating the event. “Every year we join forces with various Muslim non-governmental organisations to create awareness that celebrating Valentine's Day is against the Islamic syariat... We do not want the celebration to become a trend among Muslims,” he said, adding that ulamas worldwide forbid Muslims from celebrating the day.Islamic officials in Malaysia issued a fatwa in 2005 that the day is associated with “elements of Christianity”...The Star, Feb 7, 2012.
Well, either these religious fellows only do it on a holy Thursday night is their choice but to crack the whip to control the horny hormones for a day is as ironic as the Vatican asking Asia to stop child abuses huh?
The best way is to shut down all businesses owned by Muslims starting today and post Feb 14 so that you reduce the chances of lovers buying gifts, sending chocs, flowers, even eating at mamak shops for a single or group VD outing! On second thought, you need to ban all businesses because lovers will buy from businesses opened and not run by Muslims!
If we are going to get religious and paranoid about doing anything with Christian elements, it's not VD that you need to ban right? The first is to get rid of the Gregorian calender so you won't have VD or Christmas and those many Christian celebrations. Places of worship must also be torn down because they are so visible and can weaken those who sees it. In fact, ban the religion would be easier right? No Muslim operation or with Muslim majority business should serve anything related to Christianity including turkey roast, hot cross buns, fruit cakes. That would be the best solution to protect believers from straying or their faith weakened right?
If we are obsessed with attempts to weaken one's faithful, we should not encourage any of your faithful to live in places where there are so many pagan elements around them right? All should stay in the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan and even BolehLand. Indonesia seems an exception for the time being but if the clerics have their way it will join BolehLand too in admonishing anyone seen off tangent with God right?
So to PAS and Pakatan, look at how to reduce the large number of social ills among the Muslims such as out of wedlock birth and all kind of maksiat committed by political leaders who pay the salaries of the religious moral squads too!
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As all public spaces to pose a warning 'This establishment is not responsible if you are caught on Feb 14' or 'This establishment do not serve or conduct any form of business and activity related to the Feb 14 celebration. And anyone who celebrates his or her birthday, anniversary or send roses etc should carry a disclaimer that it is in no way related to Feb 14 celebration. Better still have a halal certification like they are going to do it for leather goods.
Man always think, rather believe they know who God is and what He wants. Each great or lesser religion claim they possess the one true God, as if God needs man to do his PR, not a political party that is, for Him.
So when man dictates, more often to live out one innate trait of human beings which share alike with the animal kingdom, power to control over others to come out the stronger and victorious one so that the losers, timid and meek will bow down to the victorious and victimisation of the powerful over the less powerful. And God has been the convenient ammo and weapon to sanctify or confer unto man his dominion over others, most times even God himself.
Those who do not possess religious knowledge or schooled in a particular religion are often asked to just shut up and listen to those who have been called by God to carry out His commands and what have you,..
So we have religious institutions just like any other institution set up to wield control and power over individual beings. The simple argument is if you want to follow us and undergo that ritual of initiation call it Bat Mitzvah, baptism or sunat, once you are born or reborn into the 'family' you are forever their child of God and those who leave even voluntarily are subjected to, as the institution will say 'God's punishment'.
The Catholic Church of ole used to stone apostates, which thank God these days, this practice has stopped and deemed illegal. However, there are some religions which claim you cannot change an iota of God's law so if one leaves the family so it's 'off with his or her head', or death by stoning and what have you.
So when man is inflicted or rather punished by these religious institutions, these clerics in robes will accuse man or the sinner of being off tangent with God's will. Those humans who refused to be become addicted to or by the extremism and fanaticism of institutionalised religion will accused the religious institutions and their men in robes that their actions suggests God is off tangent with his creation. A God who is seen as an angry God, even tainted with Racism, bigotry, corruption injustice, gender bias, a God out on a witch hunt, a God who has no qualm of whipping, humiliating and beheading those who do not obey His command.
Of course, there will be those who argue that it is man who is off tangent with God. If that is so, why do we feel fear and shiver when we see these religious and moral squads cometh a knocking at our doors, or when we are having a good time with friends in open or enclosed environment? Why do we tremble with fear to speak out? On the other hand, we are disgusted and abhor those ah longs, pimps, drug lords and warlords who abuse, intimidate and enslave man.
It's ironic we shiver with the same level of fear with religious institutions and men of cloth with their rules, rituals and what have you, as well as the so called 'scums' of the earth we label these anti social elements, the ah longs, pimps, robbers etc, where money is their supreme God. We fear those who call themselves God's chosen ones and also the Godless crime lords, not that the latter don't believe and also fear God in their own ways.
The latest is we fear political leaders and their political party, the third God so to speak who uses the God of religion to sanctify their rule and power on one hand, and on the left hand, the religion of money indulging in actions that conmen does, corruption and where money reigns supreme. Such is Bolehland where halal and haram is becoming pervasive.
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