the thing i hate about religious fundamentalists is that they justify social decline and stupidity by appealing to their religion.
i am not interested in listening to the defenders of religious circumcision made by jewish and muslims. it doesn't matter how old or how important the tradition. child genital mutilation is child genital mutilation. religion is just an excuse to violate the child's bodily integrity. then these guys are like "lol i haven't had lifelong traumas". and? should i smack 8-day old baby just because he won't remember it later in his life? then they ramble on about some pseudoscientific shit. "you shouldn't keep the foreskin because it causes infections". there will be no infections, because you should wash it in exactly the same way as you wash, say, your toes or ass. so you can't wash your own dick? are you dumb? because you have to come up with excuses to defend your tradition, you're a person who doesn't have a fully functioning dick. your glans is drier than the sand of the sahara. foreskin is there for a reason. you have lost the tissue of several million nerve points which means that sex isn't as enjoyable. you don't know any better. you all have this stupid tradition only because abraham had no interest in washing his own cock.
if valuing a child's bodily integrity makes me anti-semitic and islamophobic, so be it. then i am proudly anti-semitic and islamophobic. cultures that does not value nor care bodily human rights does not deserve respect. you will be respected only when you throw your brutal and backward traditions to the hill.
religious institutions are always given different freedoms to violate human rights using religion as an excuse.
if in a normal workplace it was said that only men can apply for this position, people would think that this is sexism. but when it comes to orthodox, catholic, jewish or muslim clergy, then it's just different.
if a bar said this place is forbidden to homosexuals, people would consider it homophobic. but when it comes to weddings, there's no way clergy can bless gay people.
but i find it so funny when people wonder why on earth someone would be a christofascist. well, precisely because you can be sexist and homophobic by referring to religion without any social or legal sanctions. if you share your views without religion, it is a crime. if you share your views with religion, it is the right granted by freedom of religion and thus it is not a crime. this is why religions are the last bastion of fascism.
i also remember when one of our orthodox priests, who thank god retired, said that halloween is satanic and that any orthodox should celebrate it. well, first of all, go outside. gasp for fresh oxygen. meet other people who are not just orthodox fools. secondly, you must have missed what the whole point of the gospel was. jesus was pissed off by the pharisees because they were brainrotting legalists who judged people only because they broke the useless laws of the bible and rabbinical traditions (known today as the talmud) and not because they actually did bad things. it said enough about the pharisees that they considered eating pork a more serious sin than being a serial killer. because of this, many were alienated from the pharisees and thus from religion, when the clergy does not know how to use common sense when it comes to moral issues. because whenever a moral dilemma comes up, ask yourself, what wrong is he doing? not being legalistic is not a sign of immorality.
i don't think satanism is that once a year you dress up in some fucking gothic clothes and play with some plastic skeleton. genuine satanism is not even the dictionary definition of satanism. respecting satan means that you are truly a fucking sick person. murderer, rapist, scammer and so on. it is not a conscious choice to decide to worship satan. anyone who is a decent person, yet claims to worship satan is just a illiterate LARPer. satan is present in all people who are really disgusting and evil.
if not following biblical legalism is immoral, then to be logical, all of us christians should think that slavery is ok because in the old testament owning a slave was a good thing and in the gospel it was not condemned. on the other hand, we could argue that jesus was ok with it because he was supporter of ceasar. "give caesar what belongs to caesar". look, here's the brain. they can be used for free. you don't need holy texts to be a moral person.