04 November, 2009

A crucified Jesus is offending


Wether you are a Christian or not, there are several ways you can look at Jesus. Letting the religious part stand for itself for example, he was a rebel. Someone who questioned things in the society and how it was run. He was someone who shouldn't offend anyone who thinks that we should be allowed to be different. But maybe that is a bit of the problem?
Some people don't want us to be different, everyone should be shaped according to a secular patty-pan. Looking, tasting and smelling the same.

But it is not about Jesus in person right? It's about the idea of that the society must be secular and not favoring any specific religion.
I know that some people like to say that the fascism in Italy during 1920
made it compulsory with crucifixes in schools. They say it's the fascism and religion that is crazy. But the very same people now want to forbid crucifixes or any religious symbols in public. I say it's facism and secularism gone mad.

Sure public schools in secular societies should not be favoring a specific religion. But why forbidding religious symbols? Why not say there should be one of each?
I got a very simple answer to that. It's becuase these kind of people rather forbid things for religious people than opening up saying it should be compulsory with multiple religious symbols. Secularism does not always mean religious freedom. Forbidding religious symbols = NOT religious freedom.

It's one thing to forbid the public schools themselves to have religious symbols but teachers and students should be allowed to live their lives. Otherwise I would want to see no people wearing anything that shows what their favourite football, hockey team etc is. Also you should not be allowed to show goth, punk rock, hip-hop styles and so on. We should all wear the same clothes in public so we never bother people with our personal lifestyle. We should destroy, churches/cathedrals, mosques, synagogues, all kind of temples or any place at all really that people of the same kind goes to.
But wait a minute... I forgot that this is just about religion. It's only religious people who should be forbidden to do and wear things that shows they are "different".

I stick with the idea that I had a few years back. If these sick rules of not wearing religious symbols in public or in schools should ever come here to stay. I will simply make a tattoo, always visible.

Secular societies and religious freedom is ment to to support coexistance. Not take away religious freedom and make it impossible to coexist.