We say we are free but we are
not. Our freedom is curtailed on every side. We are not free to speak our minds
about our estimates of and opinions on absolutist religions for fear of being
labelled racist. What the violent votaries of these religions deem right, we
are bound to abide by those norms regarding free speech. Such is our state
today. We are slowly losing our basic human right to rationalise and criticise
totalitarian ideologies because it supposedly offends a vast number of people
who are insensitive enough to follow the dictates of intolerant ideologies but
suddenly become hypersensitive to counter-criticism when they, like
schoolchildren, start feeling a super sense of hurt. They well adhere to dogma
of their own faith which is injurious to religions other than their own, preach
intolerance extreme by copious quotes from their scriptures but find it
unpalatable when it comes to digesting some of their own vitriol by way of
boomerang. They convert as they please but will not tolerate apostasy. Such
violation of basic human rights in the name of one exclusive religion is easy
digestion for liberals and apologists the world over but rational criticism of
fanaticism by progressive thinkers is deemed racism. Facile logic, farcical
liberalism, fanciful democracy indeed!
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