At first the attack on Rushdie seems like one of those demented, crazy attacks by a crazy person, but is there a rationality to his actions? Let’s be clear, such an attack is pure evil, uncivilized & reprehensible
But to understand his actions we take a look at the harshness of life - the vast majority of humans still live lives that are “poor, nasty, brutish and short” to quote Hobbes. We ALL want the good, rich life - to live in the big house, the big car, money to spend, few worries or cares but those are hard to come by. No one GIVES you anything down here, we want something? We must work hard, sacrifice, give up so much, fight like hard and such a success is EARNED!
Many give up and some turn to Crime - easy to steal - stores have been robbed of thousands of dollars within a few seconds. Trusted business associates have ran away with the company’s funds
Others turn to rich Sugar Daddies to GIVE them the good life - the prostitute, Gigolo, the leech, the parasite. The Oligarchs who unconditionally supported the likes of Putin have been amply rewarded. Their qualification for such a grand life? Their unwavering support of Putin & singing his praises, that’s it! One can see that if one is willing to drop all morals and values such a good life is far easier to obtain
And it is such people that religions target - “there is a nice God in the sky, all he asks is for you to believe he exists, support him unconditionally and you will be amply rewarded with the pleasures of the flesh for eternity! You can run away & hide from all this pain & suffering” And all such grand promises made without even a scintilla of evidence! ZERO! NADA! Such is their pitch and one would think any intelligent person would see thru this but amazingly even the best of minds fall for this tactic
Such a wonderful life is NOT EARNED, but GIVEN - you can see how tempting this must be - “all we have to do is join the religion and sing his praises and we are on the path to a life of pleasure and ease!” Especially if one is a failure in life - if one lacks the mental capacity for hard work - this is way too easy, right? “Just sing his praises and be a willing slave and the easy good life is mine!” The easy lazy way to the easy lazy life of wonderful comfort for eternity! No more worries of life - bad bosses, making ends meet, job losses, health issues, evil people, drugs, wars…the list is endless!
And just like Putin’s supporters understand that any threat to Putin is a threat to the rich life they lead & so are more than willing to rape, torture and kill anyone deemed a threat to him, followers of such religions are also more than willing to eliminate those that are deemed a threat, that speak ill of their benefactor
Hence the mockery of Science and actions like this - “Rushdie dared to question the great benefactor, for that he must be punished and if we do so, Master will be pleased and reward us even more!”
And as the globe warms and the climate changes for the worse with millions displaced, food and water becoming scarcer, more and more will turn to such cheap religious promises and we might see more of such attacks
Such actions are the result of human greed and weakness and the frightening silence of the educated, the moral and the media
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