Blasphemy

[Homeless Nutter]

Religions were created in order to facilitate control over ignorant societies. Every totalitarian government knows, that if you allow people to express dissenting views - their control over their subjects will be short-lived, especially if they'd come to power through the use of deception. And most religions are textbook totalitarian systems, in that they demand control - either direct, or indirect - over every aspect of human life. So why would they allow anyone to publicly criticize or reject their doctrines?

That's why - not even after most heinous crimes, committed against blasphemers, heretics and dissidents - religious leaders can't bring themselves to speak a word in defense of free speech (recent comments made by pope Whats-his-face in reaction to Charlie Hebdo murders are a good illustration of that, but that's by no means a new strategy). Threat of violence is still one of the main tools used by almost all religions - even if the "modern", "reformed" ones rely on someone else to actually kill people. "You see what extremists do, when you f**k with religion? You better be nice to all religions from now on, just to be safe..."