Yes,
exactly that, stop talking about religion when a crime is committed and remove
so called ”hate crime” laws. A crime is a crime irrespective of what the (religious)
target was; an individual, a business or a religious institution. As long as we
continue using religious labels we will only increase divide and there will
always be individuals and organizations taking advantage of it. Always exposing
religion in a plethora of situations is counterproductive, religion is a
private matter between an individual and “God”. “God” never asked for display
of belonging or righteousness through the wearing of symbols or dressing
according to the demands of a religious leader or institution. According to
most religions, the core of it boils down one simple thing, creating a relation
between deity and self. A religious institution apart from compassion and
charity should serve this purpose only, which is helping individuals come to
terms with that relation.
When we
openly display symbols for our belief and grouping us together under the label
of a religion we make ourselves prey for evil causes, evil people and evil
leaders.
In my
country Sweden it started to look like we were on the right path, splitting off
church from state, removing religious procedure and one-eyed education about Christianity
from education, leaving it up to the individual to decide; and it became very
much so until a steady and growing stream of refugees and immigrants, mostly Muslims,
starting to pour in over the nation’s borders. Sweden is supposed to be a secular
state even though there still are a number of religious remains from the times
were the majority of Sweden’s population would consider themselves as
Christians, at the end of the school year going to church or the celebration of
the Saint Lucia in December. We now have living symbols of religion on the
streets and laws and courts are changing to incorporate parts of Sharia, still
thinking that everyone is equal under the law. It is a grave error from
politicians and law-makers letting this happen.
Secular
states like Sweden are easy prey either for religious fundamentalism on one
side and nationalism on the other and this is exactly what is going on over her
right now. Is it bad to be afraid of change, well if we can define the bad and
the good but the problem is we can’t, as no one is educated enough on the
subject.
Religion
should not show on the streets and not in the civil administration of a
country. Is this possible to achieve?
Please get acquainted
with the concepts of religion by reading something by Karen Armstrong. Doing it
is a much easier way than having to read the Quran, The Bible and the Sutras of
Buddha, I would trust her.
#shariah #Islamophobia #immigration #IslamicState #religionofpeace #ReligiousViolence #SecularTweets
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