{"id":295,"date":"2013-11-20T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:30:48","slug":"d-o-n-e-defenders-of-the-new-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"D.O.N.E. \u201cDefenders of the New Enlightenment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWE are D.O.N.E. with Religion. But why? \u201cWhy all the fuss, what\u2019s all this religion bashing about?\u201d Many of my very liberal Xian friends and colleagues ask this question. <\/p>\n

WHY? Because there are people in chains, mostly women and gays, all over the world due to religious thought; either the chains of cultural repression, restrictions on behavior, ridicule, however minimal and concealed or undeniably obvious and crushing.
\nOR they endure actual physical abuse, even death: All<\/strong> for religious ideas<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at misogyny for now. A few examples today will suffice.
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1. Islam and women. Check out the heartfelt piece at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Christianity and women:<\/p>\n

Women can\u2019t be priests. Did Jesus say that somewhere? Many liberal Xian sects of course say NO and allow women to become ministers and pastors. They are restricted in most religions to being second class citizens; Judaism, Xianity, even the supposed spiritually \u201cenlightened\u201d and less repressive Buddhist religion has its monks exclusive to men, and in some sects, the thinking is as primitive as any found in the Old Testament as they will not let women near the temple during their \u201cunclean\u201d period lest they somehow defile it.
\nOnly religion allows, upholds, and propagates this base level of ancient and crude thought. People sometimes take exception to my use of the term \u201carrogance<\/em>\u201d of religious thought. It is arrogance that allows religion to continue to dwell in absurd primitive ideas, usually to the denigration of some group, women in our examples here.<\/p>\n

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AND women of course are responsible for the Fall, and it is really just best for men to do without them altogether according to the rants of Saul\/Paul.
\nRead any of the New Testament writings of Xianity in the Epistles ascribed to Paul of Tarsus (I refuse to call that son-of-a-bitch a \u201csaint\u201d). His shitty attitudes toward women written nearly 2,000 years ago have set women back ever since; the most influential of which are found in the Pastoral Epistles of Timothy which Biblical scholars both secular and conservative agree he didn’t even write.<\/em> The fact that we even read these primitive, uninformed, and oppressive authoritarian writings is ridiculous in the modern age. They have no basis in reality and no business being yet revered in our modern world. Yet even liberal Xianity glorifies this monster whose writings, whether actually his or merely those in his name, have set women\u2019s freedoms back 2,000 years. <\/p>\n

Just another reason why we’re D.O.N.E. with religion: Let’s put these primitive and cruel old books on the shelf where they belong.<\/p>\n

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WE are D.O.N.E. with Religion. But why? \u201cWhy all the fuss, what\u2019s all this religion bashing about?\u201d Many of my very liberal Xian friends and colleagues ask this question. WHY? Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,7,4],"tags":[96,53,95,94,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}