Makes you wonder…
What’s Malaysia coming to? When you get 6 strokes of rotan & RM5,000 fine for drinking as a Muslim. Now look, I’m not saying they should’ve done it, but come on… 6 strokes of rotan? First of all, did they get to choose their religion? If you’re born a Muslim in Malaysia, you’ll remain a Muslim unless you leave the country. I sure hope it was some damn good beer.
I was born a Buddhist but I’m kind of a non-believer now. What I believe is we should absorb the good teachings, and ignore the obvious bullshit. For example, I’m not supposed to eat beef, but no one has been able to convince me not to (few have tried, including my mum). “We’re not supposed to” is not enough. Not when beef tastes so damn good. For all you know, maybe beef was causing a disease back then, and some wise ass decided to stop people from eating it by saying it’s religion based. Ever occurred to you?
On a different note, PAS tried to stop Rihanna from having a concert in Malaysia, saying “it would result in an outflow of local currency to the United States, and in turn, cause loss to the country and suffering to the Palestinians.” They never cease to amaze me. Hey if you wanna stop buying shit from the US, be my guest. But let the people decide what they want to do with their money. In fact, I work for a US company. Should I resign to “show displeasure against the United States”? Stupid.
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It’s nothing new; religion has existed since the beginning of civilisation because it’s an easy way of making the commoners do things that the higher authorities want them to, or decide is best for them. Case in point - which is easier to explain to someone: that eating beef will give them Mad Cow Disease and then go on to explain what Mad Cow Disease is and convince them that it is deadly and irreversible? Or just say, our religion teaches us that cows are sacred therefore should not be eaten? =P
Increasing education and intelligence (presumably) levels today however mean that people are more informed and in a better position to make their own judgements about many different things. So by right, now and in the near future we should see a decline in archaic practices and religious rituals that have no convincingly “rational” basis.
And btw, to my knowledge, there are no food restrictions in Buddhism - Taoists ( ιζεΎ ) do not eat beef, but Buddhists can. ;) Buddhism is also more of a philosophy than a religion, if you ask me.
Haha I didn’t know that! My mum prays to Kuan Yin (sp?) not sure what -ist is that, but beef is no-no.
Yeah I’ve heard Buddhism is a way of life and not religion too.