Discrimination
All religions make the bold claim that theirs is the true religion and the way to salvation. The "holy books" of the bible, the quran, and the torah we are told are the spoken word of god. The truth, The way, and especially how to treat your fellow human being. If you read these books and I seriously urge you to do so you can read for yourself and judge what they aspire to be and what they are trying to convey, very quickly it will become apparent that these books are littered with great detail how to subjugate and discriminate your fellow man, and at all times your fellow woman.
Society has evolved and moved forward. The human race has started albeit slowly to grow out of it's infancy. Slavery, once the norm in Society with people bought and sold by like cattle is a bygone practice that is quite rightly reviled, yet these good books instruct a follower of faith how to treat a slave and when they can be beaten, sold or killed.
women are firmly put in their place in the "good books" and treated as second class citizens with instructions ranging from keeping silent in church and how to defer to their husbands to when it is permitted to stone them to death.
The vote for women so long denied had been fought by heroic people who had grown up with the zeitgeist of the day that they were the fairer sex and should be beholden to both the husband and god. Even today in a some countries women are still denied the basic right to vote and in some cannot even work or drive! The struggle for equality is a continuous, long, hard battle even in our so called civilized western world.
Sex and sexual orientation of one's self is a favourite topic of religion and is the subject of many imam, clergyman and priest's rhetoric as the dogma of their diatribe is veraciously spouted. Basic human rights of the individual are irrelevant. Religion would have you controlled and subjugated not only with the mind but your body also.
Racism, once so prevalent in the church only rears it's ugly head in a very few countries now as all races are now seen in churches throughout the world. but their was a time when the very thought of a non- white priest or even a bishop was frowned upon by these peace loving all forgiving Christians. This may be in part because the subject of race is not one that is mentioned in religious text.
It is very self evident on reading the religious texts that discrimination is rampant and ingrained in the religious psyche of both the hierarchy and to a degree a lot of its followers. it is also self evident from the news stories around the world that the faithful have taken it upon themselves to interfere and discriminate in the lives of anyone that does not follow the code of their god by trying to instill their version of how everyone should live,breathe, love and die.
In the west The grip and stranglehold that religion has is being challenged as ordinary people stand up for their rights demanding that they themselves determine how they shall live and that it not be decided by a single book of superstition written in a time when people were poorly educated, most unable to read or write, democracy very rarely practiced and to challenge or defy the teachings of the church often had the serious consequence of shortening your life. In the 21st century So many Islamic states are at that point in time right now with the state controlling the compulsory following of worship to Allah. Religious law dominates and human rights come second if at all. The people are instructed how and what to think, when to worship, who they can love and when with sharia law observed at all time. Death is all to often the answer if people wish to live a different life to that of religion.
The faithful want to be able to go about their business in peace and enjoyment following that faith. The most basic of human right is freedom to think and do as you believe, without interference from others. No one has the right to tell anyone what to believe or how to live ones life. Most normal ordinary people ( certainly in the free world) would agree 100% with that statement, I know I certainly do!.
If it was left there then no one would have any problems with religion. The respect that religion thinks it deserves might be more forthcoming. There is however one glaring problem to this premise which arises when religion and the faithful want to to adhere to a religious belief or practice that interferes in the lives of others either because it is written in their holy book or they have been indoctrinated to believe a point of view by their peers and the hierarchy of their given religion. As a result, they think this gives them privilege over the rights of others. To the religious, their faith always takes precedence over any individual, organisation government or even the law.
The religious hierarchy especially those of Islam and Christianity openly talk and push their rhetoric of discrimination and sexism claiming it is the word of god and must be obeyed and followed to the letter of religious law, that it is above the law of any country or man. It isn't!
Society has evolved and moved forward. The human race has started albeit slowly to grow out of it's infancy. Slavery, once the norm in Society with people bought and sold by like cattle is a bygone practice that is quite rightly reviled, yet these good books instruct a follower of faith how to treat a slave and when they can be beaten, sold or killed.
women are firmly put in their place in the "good books" and treated as second class citizens with instructions ranging from keeping silent in church and how to defer to their husbands to when it is permitted to stone them to death.
The vote for women so long denied had been fought by heroic people who had grown up with the zeitgeist of the day that they were the fairer sex and should be beholden to both the husband and god. Even today in a some countries women are still denied the basic right to vote and in some cannot even work or drive! The struggle for equality is a continuous, long, hard battle even in our so called civilized western world.
Sex and sexual orientation of one's self is a favourite topic of religion and is the subject of many imam, clergyman and priest's rhetoric as the dogma of their diatribe is veraciously spouted. Basic human rights of the individual are irrelevant. Religion would have you controlled and subjugated not only with the mind but your body also.
Racism, once so prevalent in the church only rears it's ugly head in a very few countries now as all races are now seen in churches throughout the world. but their was a time when the very thought of a non- white priest or even a bishop was frowned upon by these peace loving all forgiving Christians. This may be in part because the subject of race is not one that is mentioned in religious text.
It is very self evident on reading the religious texts that discrimination is rampant and ingrained in the religious psyche of both the hierarchy and to a degree a lot of its followers. it is also self evident from the news stories around the world that the faithful have taken it upon themselves to interfere and discriminate in the lives of anyone that does not follow the code of their god by trying to instill their version of how everyone should live,breathe, love and die.
In the west The grip and stranglehold that religion has is being challenged as ordinary people stand up for their rights demanding that they themselves determine how they shall live and that it not be decided by a single book of superstition written in a time when people were poorly educated, most unable to read or write, democracy very rarely practiced and to challenge or defy the teachings of the church often had the serious consequence of shortening your life. In the 21st century So many Islamic states are at that point in time right now with the state controlling the compulsory following of worship to Allah. Religious law dominates and human rights come second if at all. The people are instructed how and what to think, when to worship, who they can love and when with sharia law observed at all time. Death is all to often the answer if people wish to live a different life to that of religion.
The faithful want to be able to go about their business in peace and enjoyment following that faith. The most basic of human right is freedom to think and do as you believe, without interference from others. No one has the right to tell anyone what to believe or how to live ones life. Most normal ordinary people ( certainly in the free world) would agree 100% with that statement, I know I certainly do!.
If it was left there then no one would have any problems with religion. The respect that religion thinks it deserves might be more forthcoming. There is however one glaring problem to this premise which arises when religion and the faithful want to to adhere to a religious belief or practice that interferes in the lives of others either because it is written in their holy book or they have been indoctrinated to believe a point of view by their peers and the hierarchy of their given religion. As a result, they think this gives them privilege over the rights of others. To the religious, their faith always takes precedence over any individual, organisation government or even the law.
The religious hierarchy especially those of Islam and Christianity openly talk and push their rhetoric of discrimination and sexism claiming it is the word of god and must be obeyed and followed to the letter of religious law, that it is above the law of any country or man. It isn't!
It is for man (human beings) to decide the laws and direction of society. Not a Superstition, myth or deity.
Fight religious interference and discrimination wherever and whenever you see it.
News stories such as these below are all to common and happening on a weekly basis, the law having to step in to stop discrimination by the religious faithful.
Fight religious interference and discrimination wherever and whenever you see it.
News stories such as these below are all to common and happening on a weekly basis, the law having to step in to stop discrimination by the religious faithful.
Muslim chef Hasanali Khoja has lost his claim for discrimination against the Metropolitan Police Agengy (MPA). He complained that he was forced to handle pork products and cook sausages and bacon. Mr Khoja accused the Metropolitan Police of failing to consider his Islamic beliefs by handling pork products as a catering manager at a police station.
Under Islamic law Muslims are banned from eating pork, however 2 witnesses told the court that they had seen Mr Khoja eat bacon rolls and sausages. This begs two important questions. Mr Khoja had at some point applied for a job as a chef and got that job with the MPA. The job of a chef is to cook. He was cooking food for employees of the police service. Now putting aside the obvious reason why Mr Khoja lost the case...he lied and was found out, why would any person gain employment where they would obviously be expected to do something that was against their beliefs? Any organisation or workplace in this country employing a diverse workforceand having meals prepared on site by a chef would expect to have meat on the menu, and the chefs job is to cook it! plain and simple. |
Christian owners of a seaside guesthouse acted unlawfully by refusing to let a gay couple share a double bed. Peter and Hazelmary Bull did not allow civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy to use a double room in their Cornwall B&B because it would be "an affront to their faith".
However, a judge at Bristol County Court said the couple were breaking the law by denying the men a room.Mr Hall and Mr Preddy were each awarded £1,800 in damages. The couple said they were extremely happy with the outcome of the case. "When we booked this hotel we just wanted to do something that thousands of other couples do every weekend - take a relaxing weekend break away. "We're really pleased that the judge has confirmed what we already know - that in these circumstances our civil partnership has the same status in law as a marriage between a man and a woman, and that, regardless of each person's religious beliefs, no-one is above the law."Mr Preddy booked a room at the B&B in 2008 and Mrs Bull assumed he was bringing his wife with him. When he arrived with his civil partner Mr Hall, the pair were refused a double room by the manager Bernie Quinn, who instead offered them seperate single rooms. A month before Mr Preddy booked to stay at the B&B, Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, had warned the Bulls that a notice on their website about who could and could not stay was illegal. |
The notice read: "We have few rules but please note that out of a deep regard for marriage we prefer to let double accommodation to heterosexual married couples only."Ben Summerskill, from Stonewall, welcomed the ruling.
He said: "You can't turn away people from a hotel because they're black or Jewish and in 2011 you shouldn't be able to demean them by turning them away because they're gay either. "Religious freedom shouldn't be used as a cloak for prejudice."
Mrs Bull has argued that even her brother and his female partner were not allowed to share a room in her house due to her strict religious beliefs."Our double-bed policy was based on our sincere beliefs about marriage, not hostility to anybody".
Again you run a business. A business requires you to follow certain laws it is not open to interpretation based on what you believe it is there to protect people . The Law is the law end of. What people do is nothing to do with religion and all to often religion is used as a cloak for prejudice or to try and evade certain laws or rules by declaring religious freedom.
He said: "You can't turn away people from a hotel because they're black or Jewish and in 2011 you shouldn't be able to demean them by turning them away because they're gay either. "Religious freedom shouldn't be used as a cloak for prejudice."
Mrs Bull has argued that even her brother and his female partner were not allowed to share a room in her house due to her strict religious beliefs."Our double-bed policy was based on our sincere beliefs about marriage, not hostility to anybody".
Again you run a business. A business requires you to follow certain laws it is not open to interpretation based on what you believe it is there to protect people . The Law is the law end of. What people do is nothing to do with religion and all to often religion is used as a cloak for prejudice or to try and evade certain laws or rules by declaring religious freedom.