10 Things Everyone Should Know About the Middle East

As George Bush hopefully taught us, it doesn’t matter if you
think you’re doing good when you commit acts that suffering to
millions of people. George Bush thought he was being Ronald Reagan, and that
he’d be a hero. He was wrong, and he commited evil.

It’s the same with the Catholic Church. They think they’re doing a good
thing by putting the literal fear of God into people who consider
contraception. But the truth is that there is no God, and they’re just
plainly causing the suffering of millions by bringing them into a world
where they are virtually guaranteed to live lives of pain.

The folks at The Onion, as they often do, captured this in a brilliant
headline:

I grow tired of religion’s free pass. It’s a hinderance to progress at best,
and an outright cause of suffering at worst. It’s true that many enlightened
people have found ways to strip their religion of its wickedness and build
their own patchwork version that has some merits, but this fact doesn’t
vindicate the evil that’s done in the name of most religion.

Is the Middle East better off because of religion? Latin America? Africa?

No. They’re worse off. Superstition retards the acceptance of truth and
reason, and it’s time for the liberals of the world to shut the fuck up and
stop allowing people to exponentially multiply their own suffering on
account of their “personal choice”. If people are ignorant enough to chase
townsfolk down and beat them to death for being “witches”, in the year 2009,
then they aren’t making a “choice” to be ignorant any more than a child is
making a choice to play in traffic.

And in both cases, if we actually care (vs. just saying we do), we should
stop them from doing so. ::