am i the only one burning out on the steady stream of news reports about some enclave of religious fundamentalists rotorootering their baby girls' reproductive organs out or giving their infant sons venereal diseases through oral copulation or murdering all their breeding age women just because some men are heterosexual?
it's not that i want to see these things happening, it's that there's nothing i can do about it. in fact, there really isn't anything i should do about it. these people are living their lives the way they choose. it's no more my place or business to try and change them or tell them they're wrong than it is their place or business to tell me.
if we have reached a point in human history where that sort of adherence to fear and shame in the name of religion has become incompatible with the survival of whatever part of the species it afflicts... if religion is what causes a group of people to stop engaging in reproduction, whether through social pressure or physical violation, then that's just evolution. the environment has changed. if they are unable to adapt they're going to go extinct, and we're not going to have much choice but to let them.
i'm not forcing religious people to do these things to one another, and i'm having a very hard time not applying what i understand about the nature of reality to this just like i do to everything else. i don't feel good about it, but there comes a point where my inability to do anything but feel bad begins to interfere with my ability to be a productive member of my own society.
if religious people could understand the kind of toxic despair they're causing in the world, we wouldn't have to have this conversation anymore. until then, i just don't think i can afford to care about what they do to themselves and each other. i have a life to live, too.
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