I give below a quotation from the book "God Delusion" written by Richard Dwakins:


"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"

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Last year a father killed his daughter in Canada because she was not keeping the traditional dress code of an Islamic culture. The sixteen year old girl's name is Aqsa Parvez and she was studying in one of the Toronto schools. The only mistake committed by the innocent girl is that she has not kept the family dress code. She must have defied the old traditional way of covering a girl from head to toe. Her father may be an ardent follower of Islam and his holiness must have been violated by the girl's appearance. He must have committed inward sin when he looked at his own daughter in western dress. What a father! The father must have from an Asian country had migrated to Canada for searching for a livelihood and his own native pious country and its traditional culture must have persecuted him many years ago. So, he might have took refuge in a western Satanic country. He must have become a rich and then his religious bigotry has come back in his mind forgetting all the past miseries and misdeeds of his mother country whose culture he has to keep it up at any cost even at the cost of his own daughter. The whole Islamic nation and other third world country will eulogise such a father who stands for high morality; but the real fact is that he is very jealous in his heart. If he did not like the western way of life he could have gone back to his mother country, taking his family and teenage age girl along with him. But he did not want to do that. He wanted to enjoy all the luxuries of western society and at the same time he wanted to hide his hypocracy in a facade of make belief piety. The action of this man is the result of his religious training when he was a child. Instead of teaching the immensity of the universe and its vastnass, he was taught of a small god and his small abode in a small place called church or mosque.

When this religious bigotry of humanity comes to an end in order to save the world from coming calamity!

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