Annoyance and Superiority

Annoyance and Superiority

Slowly your need to unwind yourself publicly is becoming tiresome and obscene, even to yourself. After all, you already have your blog. Isn't that sufficient for you?

Anyway, today a twinge of annoyance briefly swept over you because of the issue of the alleged Islamization of Europe. You felt annoyed because of your self-conferred sense of superiority and understanding of the matter. You fancy that you understand why such an admittedly annoying public Islamic demonstration of faith would get on the nerves of the native Christians. The funny thing is that both the Christians and the Muslims (and all alleged religious folks who are keen to wear their religion on their sleeves) fail to examine the absurdity of their own beliefs. Each is only capable of seeing the oddity and bizarreness of the other's beliefs and practices. Religion should be a private matter between the believer and his God, whatever in what terms the believer conceives and perceives his God to be. But since Man is a social animal, he needs the reinforcement and solidarity of his fellow men, thus religion always has public spectacles with its usual rites and rituals to instill in the adherents and believers the sense of communion and that he is not alone in his beliefs and therefore his beliefs must rest on solid ground instead of self-delusions and self-hypnosis and a failure to think to the core of the matter: of why he believes in something that logically and rationally he knows cannot stand to the rigorous tests of scientific principles of verification and validation and that religion is just an aid for humans to get through life with a minimum of existential anxiety and a maximum of hope.

Wissai