Many crimes have been committed by religions. Today, countless millions of women are viciously mutilated by the mid-East’s’ dominant religion. Young girls are held down while their private parts are removed.
It is agonizingly painful and demeaning.
The practice manifests a brutality that few Westerners have the courage to think about, let alone speak about. “Half the population of my country must be painfully cut up for us to be obedient to our religion. Yet, we say that our religion is good”.
The practice demeans the women who perform the operation, scraping away the clitoris, usually with a sharpened spoon, the men who order the operations done, the parents who tolerate it, and the concept of a God who would want such a thing to be done.
Once God can be so demonized as to be thought of as wanting such a thing to be done to helpless little girls, any brutality is possible. The same religion and the societies it has spawned and supports also allows slavery.
Such a religion makes loving God and one’s neighbor impossible. And that is the difference between them and us.
