These are the captions of the two photos above that crossed the wire today:
Shiite Muslim men cut their heads with swords during a ceremony of Ashoura held in Nabatiyeh, March 13, 2003. Shiites in Lebanon commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by his rival over 1,400 years ago. More than 150,000 Lebanese packed the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday, chanting 'Death to America, death to Israel,' in a mass rally called by Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group.
You know, I'm not a big fan of religion. My thought is, if there are 100 different religions out there, then at least 99 of them are wrong. And I'm not about to argue who's right or wrong, because no one has any proof. I think most teachings that apply to sex and gays and abortion are antiquated, and I'd rather live my life based on what I understand to be ethical in 2003, not what someone penned thousands of years ago. The Golden Rule? I love it. No meat on Fridays? That's fucking retarded.
Anyway, it's a fact that a lot of horny people and a lot of gays and a lot of people who've had abortions are contributing a lot more to the world than those who are bleeding themselves and wishing death on America and Israel. I believe, frankly, that the world would be a better (safer) place without people who practice such rituals. They scare the shit out of me. As a American who values freedom, I support their right to engage in any activity that does not threaten others. I'm not sure that these people are non-threatening. People who bleed themselves and wish death on America, for the sake of religious duty or otherwise, are, in my opinion, frightening. I kinda wish these people were dead.
Perhaps we could wish for someone's bloody hand to slip and cut a little too hard a bit lower....say....around the jugular.
Posted by Da Goddess at March 14, 2003 2:48 AM