Of obsession with fiction and the reason behind it

I have been musing, as I often do, on the topic of people's obsession with religious fiction. Whenever you ask a feligious fanatic/fundamentalist and even more moderate believers to prove some part of their faith, the answer is often the same: "Because the bible/Al-Qur’ān/talmud says so and it is the inerrant word of allah/jehovah/god/etc". They take their preferred bit of fiction as fact whithout a moment of doubt in its veracity. Now consider for a moment how these people would react to someone publishing a book with the premise of the world being created by the Q continuum. I'm sure they would see it as pure fiction and nothing more. Why is it then that they don't see their respective holy books as the fiction they are? The reason that comes more easily to mind is indoctrination. I have mentioned before that I find the idea of religious "education" of children as a truly contemptible one, as it is forcing one's beliefs over someone else, worse even, someone else incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction and taking the dogma he or she is being fed, as truth. Furthermore, in the case of the bible (and I'm almost sure it applies to other holy books as well), the belief of its inerrancy is so deeply ingrained that those indoctrinated doublethink their way out of its obvious contradictions. The fact that dogma can supress reason in such a manner is utterly apalling. Not to mention the sheer power of indoctrination (Take a look at Richard Dawkins' Root of all Evil p.2 for a wider view on that one). The point here being the disservice religious education does to humanity in general, converting people into absolute irrationality. That's why I think that religious education should be illegal, just like drinking or smoking, for minors.

Of theocrat hierarchs and their opinions

Bonsoir, mes chês lecteurs, comment allez vous? Today I bring you this. Apparently the pope not only dislikes the existence of other religions in the world, he criticizes "Secularist ideology", which according to him, denies any kind of "trascendent truth". I'm quite sure that his view of in ideal world is a global theocracy, ruled by none other than himself, who knows, maybe bring the inquisition back, for old times sake. It is fortunate that he is the head of state of a really tiny country, though it is unfortunate that so many people heed his ill-concieved words.
And on the note of ill-conceived words, have you heard of the 7 new capital sins? I find it most paradoxical (not to mention hypocritical) that they had the audacity to put among those "sins" one about becoming obscenely rich at the expense of others, since the Catholic church has been doing it for more than a thousand years, and continues to do so today.

Proposal for a new domain name extension

After wondering about the web, I have come to the conclusion that there should be a .crap domain name extension. That way, users who do not wish to have their brains bombarded with website containing absolute bollocks would just have to set their google filters not to display .crap sites. Allow me to show you an example of one such site.

This, dear reader is solid Trash. Of course, anyone who knows me will at first say I'm biased (for those who do not, know that I hold nothing but contempt for religion), but I am quite certain that you will change your minds after reading this horrid site.

Don't say I didn't warn, you...
Here you go : down the drain...

You see, no crap is better than self-righteous crap involving religion. It's just prime quality. This ad practically tells you that you can murder, rape, steal, cheat, lie and pretty much everything else, if after that you feel guilty and you pray! Then they say that the world's biggest problem is *background scream* SIN!
Oh, right. Sin. So, I hate to break this to all the Iraqi, but war is definitely not the biggest problem. And poverty, I guess that for these people poverty is not an issue either. It's okay if millions starve to death as long as they're praying, and giving the money to the church, right?
I'll tell you what, if there actually were a god, I think idiots like those would be the firt ones to come down. But guess what, there is none, all there is are liars who say they speak on behalf of some deity so people will blindly follow them and do what they want. But still they refuse to open their eyes. Oh well. Willfully blind equals helpless...