Imagine there was a religion where the founding Prophet declared that all green-eyed children should be killed. The religion’s Prophet also declared that his teachings could not be altered or added to in the future because they were given to him directly by God and there would be no further Prophets. As a side note, the Prophet was a pedophile, rapist, and mass murderer that personally tortured and mutilated countless victims.
The Prophet’s religion grew at an astounding rate and over the centuries came to dominate large regions of the world. The followers were by that time mostly good and decent people that chose to overlook the requirement to kill green-eyed children, but there remained a minority that still believed in the holiness of those killings because, after all, God had commanded it.
Then as the world modernized and people could freely gather electronically at any distance a strange thing began to happen. Followers who insisted that the Prophets scripture be strictly adhered to began connecting, getting agitated and demanding a return to the true religion. Some of these zealots went out as individuals and killed green-eyed children while even more gathered, started armed revolutions, and created regions where the green-eyed children could be killed en masse.
The rest of the world reacted in horror and wondered how and why this could be happening. Compassionate leaders urged the population not to blame the religion for the killings, saying that it was a great and peaceful religion with hundreds of millions of civilized followers. They stressed that just a small number of psychopaths were responsible and that questioning the religion was prejudiced and a form of discrimination that would just lead to more killing. Others argued that the only real hope of solving the situation required an honest discussion about the religion itself. These questioners of the religion were mostly mocked and ridiculed as backward bigots by those that saw themselves as more enlightened.
…a work in progress
The Prophet’s religion grew at an astounding rate and over the centuries came to dominate large regions of the world. The followers were by that time mostly good and decent people that chose to overlook the requirement to kill green-eyed children, but there remained a minority that still believed in the holiness of those killings because, after all, God had commanded it.
Then as the world modernized and people could freely gather electronically at any distance a strange thing began to happen. Followers who insisted that the Prophets scripture be strictly adhered to began connecting, getting agitated and demanding a return to the true religion. Some of these zealots went out as individuals and killed green-eyed children while even more gathered, started armed revolutions, and created regions where the green-eyed children could be killed en masse.
The rest of the world reacted in horror and wondered how and why this could be happening. Compassionate leaders urged the population not to blame the religion for the killings, saying that it was a great and peaceful religion with hundreds of millions of civilized followers. They stressed that just a small number of psychopaths were responsible and that questioning the religion was prejudiced and a form of discrimination that would just lead to more killing. Others argued that the only real hope of solving the situation required an honest discussion about the religion itself. These questioners of the religion were mostly mocked and ridiculed as backward bigots by those that saw themselves as more enlightened.
…a work in progress
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