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1/ I think about the gender debate more than I& #39;d like. But I know why I keep coming back to it.
I grew up surrounded by a religion. Almost everyone I knew was supposed to believe in it. It affected our laws. It led people to make bad decisions. The bulk of the harm this religion
I grew up surrounded by a religion. Almost everyone I knew was supposed to believe in it. It affected our laws. It led people to make bad decisions. The bulk of the harm this religion
2/ did, was to women and children. Symphisiotomies, the Magdalen laundries, the Eighth amendment.
I didn& #39;t know about them when I started questioning it.
But I remember being made to say things I didn& #39;t believe, and I remember how people didn& #39;t like it if you asked questions.
I didn& #39;t know about them when I started questioning it.
But I remember being made to say things I didn& #39;t believe, and I remember how people didn& #39;t like it if you asked questions.
3/ Often, if you asked questions you got a sneer. After a while I realised this was because there were no answers.
It felt humiliating to be forced to say things that I did not believe.
Years later, my husband & I would sometimes talk about religion. If you could, would you
It felt humiliating to be forced to say things that I did not believe.
Years later, my husband & I would sometimes talk about religion. If you could, would you
4/ wipe it from the world? Like in the John Lennon song? My husband would say yes. I used to say no, because I figured that it would just come back again, that it& #39;s something humans will always create.
But I never really knew just how true that was. I& #39;m just so shocked.
But I never really knew just how true that was. I& #39;m just so shocked.
5/ Shocked that a belief system has sprung up so quickly. Like the last one, its faithful are often good people & believe they& #39;re doing good. Like the last one, its harms fall mainly on women & children. Like the last one, we are demanded to profess things that aren& #39;t true.
6/ Like the last one, it& #39;s affecting our laws.
And all the checks and balances I thought we now had in place to stop this happening again, don& #39;t seem to count for anything.
So that& #39;s why I can& #39;t stop thinking about this. We finally disentangled ourselves from one theocracy,
And all the checks and balances I thought we now had in place to stop this happening again, don& #39;t seem to count for anything.
So that& #39;s why I can& #39;t stop thinking about this. We finally disentangled ourselves from one theocracy,
7/ and now the very same people who knew full well the damage it did, and were cheerleaders of secularism, have turned into zealots. It& #39;s like some horrible joke.
