A man in Sweden burned a book. Some call this book holy. Their god refused to throw down a lightning bolt and kill the Swede. The laws of Sweden are stronger than god. The book people don’t want Sweden to join the Big Club, and are telling all their friends to do the same.
I wiped my bloody asshole with a Bible the other day, and since this isn’t Europe in the Year 666, (or America in 1692, in Salem, Mass.) I didn’t get burned at the stake.
Eventually, all religions grow up. One started 2000 years ago and trillions have died so that its book could also be called “holy”, despite all the unholy things that go on in it. Another religion started a little later, about 1500 years ago, and is maybe somewhere in its adolescence.
And we all know what happens when you tell a teenager to stop playing video games, it’s time for supper, then we’re all going to visit grandma – and she hasn’t trimmed her moustache!
Hell shall be unleashed! And he’ll tell other teens to ban grandma and supper and get back to playing video games where he gets to play god and kill as many evil heathen as possible. Grooming? Indoctrination? The next mass shooter learning his trade?
So if your religion is relatively young, but very powerful (the child of a celebrity is a spoiled little brat who needs to have his Lamborghini taken away from him until he learns how to do some goddamn dishes and clean up his room!), then it may feel it has the right (like a Millennial) to tell everyone everywhere what to do and how to act and if they don’t, you block their membership and burn their flag … and keep calling yourself holy, holy, holy …
In another 500 years, will you grow the fuck up, Izzy? (See how I have to censor myself … say the wrong thing, and the teeny bopper shows me how big his muscle is and says his dad can beat up my dad, and … yawn … now do you wonder when some people say they don’t want to hang out with you, that you’re a little unstable? Don’t believe me, just ask Charlie Hebdo … all that sturm und drang over a fucking cartoon, and how many died because of it … holy, holy, holy …)
