Same here; my work PC is severely limited.
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Religion is the result of evil, more than the cause. It’s the result of ignorance and lack of critical reasoning. Of course, after you have the religion, it causes even more, organized, institutional evil.
Religion doesn’t cause “incredible amount of misery, oppression, bigotry, hatred, inequality, sexual abuse, slavery” so much as validate and perpetuate it.
But this splitting hairs. Humans abhor ignorance and fill the vacuum with institutionalized fantasy or outright falsehoods. The human biome is suffused with religion or religious fictions. To say religion is evil, is to say humans are evil.
Time to play “spot the oxymoron.”
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what a time to commit to the fifth pillar.
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I’m not Irish, but the phrase old hag (cailleach) has some supernatural connotations of its own in Irish culture, no? I know it does in Gaelic culture with which Irish culture has a lot in common. That phrasing made the whole conversion feel strange (ok stranger) to me.
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“Own the Crone”
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Yeah, that is a really wonderful album. It’s a shame that phase of her didn’t last just a bit longer. As I would have loved for her to have done another album like that, of either more covers or perhaps even some original songs in that style.
Cue the music… all two minutes and four seconds of it:
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Agreed. Well spotted.
She looks happy.
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Maybe we’ll get a Qawwali inspired album from her… that could be all kinds of awesome!
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She has spent her life running from her demons, but since they are inside she can never get away from them. I hope she finds some peace.
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I’m pretty blind to subtler Gaelic cultural connotations, so thanks for that perspective.
(sorry… out of likes…)
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All Muslims = abusive to women. Got it.
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My personal creed is that no organized religion provides an answer (again, that’s me: I know many religious people who are doing fine). However, I do hope she finally finds some peace.
I’m in Ontario, so I’ve grown up with many Muslims, some who remained Muslims, many drifted away to secularism. That said, most devout Muslims I know are generally happy people, no more and no less than the rest of the population. If Islam helps her find the peace she’s been seeking, all the better.
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“Remember, when you are running from yourself: No matter how far you run, there you are.”
–Buckaroo Banzai
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“Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don’t be mean; we don’t have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
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“feminists…getting stoned all the time”
When was this exactly? You say “all the time” – I’m guessing that’s not hyperbole and there’s probably a stoning of a feminist as we speak.
Stoning of course does occur in some Muslim majority nations. It may surprise you that it does not happen in most. It can also be argued (and has been argued with solid evidence) that stonings and burkas are the result of local pre-Muslim cultures, colonialism, and other factors such as the British installing the Sauds to rule the Arab world. Iran/Persia has long been a Muslim majority country, but it’s only after the fundamentalist Islamic revolution that woman were required to cover up. Pakistan, a majority Muslim nation, had no tradition of hijab but some rural areas are enforcing it due to the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban incursion from Afghanistan, which also didn’t have that tradition until the Taliban – armed and trained by the US – took over.
Oh, and stonings really don’t target feminists per ce, just innocent people in general and being a feminist and knowing that not all Muslims are misogynist women-hating terrorists is not a difficult position to take. I mean, you don’t want to go all fallacy of relative privation on us, do you?
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