It should be clear by now to everyone with a functional brain that ultra-religious people are all morons, regardless of their faith. Evangelical Christians, Muslim extremists, orthodox Jews; not to mention Mormons, Scientologists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc. – these are all ignorant and gullible individuals; their brain cells consumed by religious dogma.
There is a difference however, in being ignorant and gullible as opposed to being so blinded by faith that people would exploit their own children to justify their stupid cause. This is unpardonable, but it is exactly what these Jewish freaks in Israel are doing to get their meaningless point across.
Hopefully someday man will invent a pill that cures stupidity, one that will permanently rid man of the mental disease known as religious faith. This would surely make the world a better place to live. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
By Jeffrey Heller | Reuters – Sun, Jan 1, 2012
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators caused outrage on Sunday by dressing children as Holocaust victims to protest against what they see as persecution of devout Jews seeking gender separation in Israel.
A boy wearing a cloth cap and the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew was the centerpiece of the Jerusalem protest late on Saturday.
His hands were raised in surrender and a yellow Star of David inscribed with “Jude,” Jew, in German, was sewn on his jacket. The image mimicked a memorable photo of a terrified Jewish boy during a roundup in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto in World War Two.
“Nazis, Nazis,” some of the protesters shouted at police.
Other children and young men were dressed in replicas of striped concentration camp uniforms at the protest attended by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in traditional black garb.
“Prisoner uniforms and yellow patches with the word “Jew” written on them in German are shocking and appalling,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement.
“The use of yellow patches and small children raising their hands in surrender crosses a red line which the ultra-Orthodox leadership, who are largely responsible people, must not accept,” he said.
EMOTIONAL DEBATE
Israel is in the grip of an emotional debate over attempts by Jewish zealots to impose and enforce gender separation in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and other public places.
Much of the controversy has stemmed from ultra-Orthodox men trying to force women to sit in the back of public buses in deference to religious beliefs against any mixing of the sexes in public.
President Shimon Peres has described the debate as a battle for the soul of the Jewish state.
The issue jumped to the top of the public agenda in Israel nearly two weeks ago when an eight-year-old girl complained on television that ultra-Orthodox men spat at her on the way to school, accusing her of dressing immodestly.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has political alliances with ultra-Orthodox parties but is facing mounting public anger over such incidents, has vowed to crack down on zealots who harass women.
Posters at the protest accused the “Zionist entity” of carrying out “an unprecedented attack on the ‘Haredi’ community,” referring to ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Some groups within the ultra-Orthodox community do not recognize Israel, saying such a state can only be established with the coming of the Messiah.
“You will not be able to impose on us sinful (Western) culture. We will remain faithful to the laws of Holy Torah,” read one protest sign at Saturday’s demonstration.
Speakers at the protest singled out an activist, jailed for vandalizing a computer store he deemed heretical in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, as a victim of what they called government persecution.
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s national memorial to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis, said the protesters’ use of Holocaust imagery was a “profound insult” to survivors.
“This is totally unacceptable and degrades Jewish values,” Shalev said on Israel Radio.
(Editing by Andrew Heavens)
A real asinine idea and one I am glad I won’t live to see, if indeed such a pill is ever created as such a pill would then be “customized”. Knowing man’s nature the way I know it, I have no doubt that a nation’s leader would proclaim it mandatory that, not just men like you or I, but the general population, take that the pill – judging us with brain cells consumed by our own thoughts and perspective, whatever they may be – so as the Flock’s every thought comply with the Shepard’s values, whatever they may.
Yes, the world would be a better place to live in, but not a world I would like to live in. If there is one freedom that the most oppressive of governments has yet been able to abolish, it is the freedom of thought – whether those thoughts be normal, obsessively serious, conservative, feeble minded, stupid, liberal, asinine, religiously centered, retarded, puritanical, obsessive compulsive, just plain happy-go-lucky, revolutionary, humane, or screwed up and whacked out. It is the one freedom that makes man who he is, whether man is liked or not.
GhostRider Wisdom…that’s my story and I’m sticking to it