..:. Cracking My Vainpot .:..

I'm sad that people prefer comfortable blinding lies to cold hard reasoning.

I'm sad that people like being told what to do, rather than exercising their own cognitive faculty.

I'm sad that believing in something without a single ounce of evidence is considered virtuous.

I'm sad that personal faith *has* to be respected regardless of whether or not such a belief system deserves it.

I'm sad that America is reviving and exporting stone-age stupidity and the world is eating it up.

I'm sad that people still believe in the power of prayers despite counter-evidence.

I'm sad that faith curtail curiosity.

I'm sad that religion is divisive.

I'm sad that Islam's culture of fear is winning.

I'm sad that nobody stopped the fundamentalists from abusing their religious freedom and taking away others' liberty.

I'm sad that religious moderates are complacent about their extremist counterparts.

I'm sad that democracy can turn collective prejudice into blatant repression of minorities.

I'm sad that religion is allowed to intrude politics, control people's private life and distort the education of our children. 

I'm sad that in a country founded by people escaping from religious persecution, you have to say you're a Christian to run for president.

I'm sad that in a modern everyone-is-equal society like Britain, people of different religions want a different set of laws.

I'm sad that however ridiculous and so obviously fake Mormon and Scientology are, people still got tricked into it.

I'm sad that children are indoctrinated even before they know which religion to choose from.

(I'm ANGRY that I've been Baptised at birth.)

I'm sad that everyone thinks their god is bigger.

I'm sad that missionaries go around the world and distroy local cultures.

I'm sad that, implicitly, all believers want others to be eternally burnt in Hell.

I'm sad that most people are too lazy to think.

http://www.thediplomat.ro/reports_1207.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7234291.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7239005.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/dec/16/religion.world

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4887668.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17book.html

Another year, another Martin Luther King Day in America.

This day always makes me sad as well as angry. Just reading about the African American's struggle in the past, looking at black-and-white pictures of public water fountains for "colored people" brought me tears. Everytime I listen to Billy Holiday's "Strange Fruit", a cold chill comes down my spine. I sincerely hope that Obama will win the presidential election, and show conservative white America that, ready or not, your racism is out!

Although blacks are not yet as equal as whites, they are, at least, more equal than gays. Can you imagine people nowadays saying things like "Being black is against nature/a disease/against the Bible" or that "Making black as an equal would be a direct challenge to social stability" but without any retribution?? Well this *is* still happening to us gays.

For a nation's embassador to travel with his gay partner, the latter would have to be "employed" as a house boy. When different races are now free to marry each other, Americans would go so far as amending their Constitution to stop gays from getting the same rights that are granted to everyone else.

Justifiably, gay right is said to be the last unfinished arm of the civil right movement. Too bad that unlike being black, which you can't hide, gays can always hide in the closet.

When you saw that rainbow flag icon on my blog, did you crinch? Was there even a fleeting moment of embarrassment? Were you worried ever that someone walking pass may have seen it on your computer screen? Well if you do, WE have some work to do.