Have to agree that the history of religion is a history of oppression and violence.
Islam is highlighted today because psychopaths are terrorising us. But may I suggest that Islam is also highlighted today since the politicians and media thrust it upon us. They add fire the the flames and divide rather than unite. The top 4 news stories on UK national news two nights ago were reports and images of warfare. The first news item at midnight on Christmas morning was war. Then it was how much we'd all spent down the shops. This is what our politicians turn us as a species into, heartless consumers with guns. They revel in it. There are far more events on earth each day than just wars and money. There are good deed done every day in every society but all we hear is war. And this helps us fear each other.
And all this while far more of us commit suicide each year than terrorism in our own countries kills. Why can the media not address this, for example? Psychopaths commit murder, not the good-hearted majority.. Terrorists scare us with bombs and reports of bombs because the media helps in the scaremongering.
All groups in history have committed murder, it is true. There are lots of humans across all societies that have done this. There are even more who have not, so humanity still stands with some honourable ideas and works.
But homeless people lie on our streets amongst us yet we don't parade down the streets or gather in our millions demanding they are assisted. Our old people sit cold and alone, so what does that say about us? Don't countless things need to be fixed before freedom of speech truly is an issue? Obviously, we are also a kind species so many do help. But their works seem to get blasted away every time our warmongering politicians arouse us to war, for whatever reason. Even the state aid we send is useless when this is done or when hijacked and stolen.
I therefore suggest that politicians don't care about freedom of speech but their freedom to drop bombs as an instrument of national policy. And if they can arouse the peoples into more and more division and fear do they not achieve their aims?
We cannot trust politicians - they will let us down. We cannot trust the religious interpretations of us humans - they will let us down. We cannot trust ourselves - we are humans and we let ourselves down with hatred and intolerance and greed, this isn't a rant, it's an observation - a cold hard look..
All the while we live thus freedom of speech is a pointless illusion - it doesn't seem to have solved anything thus far. We may have 1 man 1 vote and the delusion of freedom. We've have convinced ourselves that we are free and that freedom of speech is an absolute necessity for our dignity and autonomy. But we are not and nor is it. Democracy has been hijacked by the rich and freedom of hatred is offered by the politicians. This seems like freedom at the end of a gun.
