How Beliefs Influence and Interact With Our World
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It's a common argument I hear people make: 'Let people believe what they want to believe', insisting that religious beliefs are personal, they are benign they have no consequences to everyone else. Therefore, the beliefs of one person are his alone and it is no one else's business. This argument immunises religions from criticism and critique. In my book the Tyranny Of God, I discuss the consequences of these attitudes and argue that the beliefs of a person impacts on everyone else. But when thousands of people suffer everyday because a group of individuals believe it is their god's will, or because it is what they believe based on nothing else but their faith, then their beliefs become everybody else's business. Here, is a collection of news and current affairs I see every day to highlight the huge influence of religion in our lives and in our world. |
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"Nigeria?s interim leader ordered the Army to restore order today in the central town of Jos where nearly 200 people have been killed in three days of clashes between Christians and Muslims. Sectarian clashes have erupted with deadly regularity. Hundreds were killed in separate incidents in 2008, 2004 and 2001 as Christians and Muslims battled one another on the streets, shooting and hacking each other to death and setting fire to homes and religious buildings." (Source)
COMMENT: When there is little to divide people, they have religion. Religion is divisive.
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'Bin Laden' is alive and well and living in Spain
Monday, 18 January 2010 11:06 | 
Written by Marquez Comelab | 
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The FBI put out images of their most wanted terrorists including Osama Bin Laden using highly sophisticated technology... so they say.
As it turns out, they just cut and pasted features of a Spanish politician on a layer of Bin Laden's. The politician saw the photo and contacted the FBI. The FBI admitted that their cutting-edge technology was not so cutting-edge after all. Very embarrassing.
If you look at the two photos though, I don't know how the politician was able to recognise his features. (Source)
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Filipino faithful hail Black Nazarene
Sunday, 10 January 2010 10:00 | Written by Marquez Comelab | | |
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Watch this video of thousands of Filipino men scrambling to touch a black statue of Jesus Christ. They believe that this statue has powers and they are trying to take some of it home. These men come here because they attribute the statue as being responsible for getting them their new jobs and for giving them babies.
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Muslims bomb churches for using the word Allah
Friday, 08 January 2010 23:13 | Written by Marquez Comelab | | |
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- Airport: Man yells he wants to kill all Jews
- The Nimble Terrorist And The Nimbler Intelligence
- Democracy Is the Greatest Revenge
- Christians in exodus from hostile home
- 'Marry single mums instead of young virgin girls'
- Demon worshipper kills four in PNG
- Geert Wilders In The UK
- US Church conducting Bible Burning
- Malaysian court orders Muslim lovers caned for sex
- Melbourne terror suspect hates Australians
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Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
REVIEW
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
- TONY SMITH (AUSTRALIA)
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