Secular Progressive Ridicule

I did some research on the scriptures of the Abraham religions and discovered that they all preach tolerance.

The Mosaic Covenant states that Israel could be a “holy nation” but only if its people behaved well, and play well with other nations. 

Jesus of Nazareth was a pacifist who advised “shaking the dust from your feet” and to simply depart from those who are not receptive to your beliefs. And he said love even your enemies, and resist not evil but love good.

Muhammad wrote very clearly in the Qur’an that there should be no coercion in matters of faith, and a Muslim is to say, “To you your moral law, and to me, mine.”

Where therefore comes the current plague of moronic holy crusaders? The settlers of Israel, the ISIS caliphates and Ben Carson, the co-leader of the current Republican Nomination race (see quote below).

I suspect they all interpret their scriptures pretty much like I treat the buffet at the the Albury Commercial Club.

That is, take all you want but eat all you take. And some of them go exclusively for the sugar whereas I prefer the protein and fat.

That is, they just look for the sweet bits that suit their loopy self-serving intolerance and happily ignore the harder-to-digest tolerance messages.

In this process of selective blindness they treat rational thought as just one amongst many of the categories of their occasional departures from their usual mania.

Thus their sweet-arsed dissonance doesn’t result in tooth aches or any other sort of dichotomatic head pressure.

Perhaps there is an evolutionary benefit in their ways; maybe they are like human cockroaches and are best placed to survive the holocaust that they are collectively hell-bent on creating.

Armakidden!