GUILT ABOUT SEX AND YOUR SOVEREIGNTY OF YOUR BODILY FUNCTIONS

It has been going on for thousands of years but humanity should be just about fed up with these taboos and the guilt they impart on humans.

They mutilate their male offspring and in some of the more extreme radical religions they impart very painful mutilations to the females as well. This worn out concept that religion has to rule over our bodies, our bodily functions and even go against nature is preposterous to me. 

I have never bought into religious ideology even though I have tried…I can see as an outsider how ridiculously impractical all these taboos are. By forcing their followers to adhere to absurd concepts of sex and reproduction most religions become a pain in the ass. 

The insistence in abstinence and denial of one’s natural desires to fulfill the sexual need is as common and as odious as it sounds. Imagine if the church prohibited you from taking a shit or to hold your urine until you burst…that would sound outrageous but basically this is what religion is asking of us. 

Then there are those pesky erroneous interpretations of the Scriptures…Writings that are not even historically accurate but that are deemed “holy or sacred” just because they say so when they were written by men…men who lived in another era, another time when humanity needed reproduction in order to survive. When one takes into consideration that any simple disease or plague could wipe out the entire human population and then there was the mortality rate that came very early to most living humans…it was necessary to reproduce and do it fast, no ifs or buts.

We now live in an overcrowded world, one that is incapable of feeding its inhabitants and one that by all reasonable accounts should curb population growth. Yet these religions insist in opposing even the most basic of contraception. Their sick ideology will impart guilt and in some cases where religion is influential enough, they will punish those that exert control of their own bodies and their bodily functions.

Religion has done far too much damage to society; it has caused so much grief and guilt to the point that those less adjusted and weaker have even seen it necessary to take their own lives. We have had to put up with religion opposing science and anything that is contrary to their ideology but that would bring progress and comfort to humans…we lived through the dark ages, fought religious wars, survived the Inquisition and now we are facing a very dangerous threat of establishing theocracies all over the world.

I can’t help but speculate how much more progress and evolving would have taken place if we hadn’t had organized religion opposing it. It boggles the mind that people fall for these con artists that tell them their religion is the only right one, the one anointed by God himself. Why is this so important to them? What difference does it make if you worship your GREEN UNICORN FROM TASMANIA while hanging from a chandelier? Of would it make a difference if you wore a little cap on your head or a tablecloth?

What is it that makes all these people ignore and even ridicule science when the facts about the age of the world are there in fossils, paleontology, geology and more importantly – common sense?

When we see that throughout the ages religions have caused more wars, more deaths and imparted more misery than any other single idea; and yet, we still see wars being fought today recently in Ireland and presently in the Middle East. 

It is imperative that we debunk all these traditions that only serve the ambition for power and greed on the part of organized religion. We have to oppose and call them every time they come up with pronouncements such as the Pope does on abortion, contraception, divorce or gay issues.