Why do we get so romantic over what Christianity and it's Christmas message stands for?
We all know that Islamic punishment for apostasy is death. An abomination of course - made all the more shockingly graphic and immediate when certain otherwise reasonable and "modern" Muslims of my acquaintance actually agree with this punishment - no hesitation! I wonder what can possibly motivate such a response in otherwise good and right-thinking people. Only a deep fear surely - a fear of god's retribution and the prospect of falling foul of an "honour" killing.
But read the Christian Bible, and of course, there too can be found the justifications for why the Christian church in the past at least, has treated the "de-converted" with similar such contempt. So I say - let's get real and not get too caught up in the loving and personal god romanticism that surrounds the virgin birth story.
Hurry up you religions of the world - especially those whose bibles promote veneration of a god that is extremely vindictive despite the modern "god loves you" obfuscatory veneer - hurry up and evolve yourselves out of existence back to the oblivion from whence you came!
And in the meantime we can all have a well-deserved end of year break, and I for one shall hope for a New Year replete with good deeds, performed not out of a fear of God, nor for want of advancing one's eligibility for the kingdom of heaven, but rather simply by reason of an innate responsibility towards one's fellow man - no prizes, no rewards - simply the humanist way.
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