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This man living in one of the most luxurious palaces of world however recently announced that the spread of “western materialism” is the greatest threat that the continent of Africa now faces.
The hunger and desperation that awaits the millions of new little Catholics in that continent is of no interest for this cold and hard-hearted man. He is quite willing to sacrifice them at the altar of his idiotic and old-fashioned dogma that is threatening this continent with future of steadily increasing despair, poverty and hunger.

If things are going smoothly in your life and you are just running with the herd, one is very easily drawn into accepting the ideas appreciated by the herd without questioning them. Human beings just are extremely social animals and the acceptance of ones social group is of paramount importance for any person.

So very often there must be a trigger incident that throws a person off balance or outside the herd for at least a moment before a person is drawn into questioning the ruling ideologies of the herd. But when the flood-gates are finally opened, there is very often no going back, when one realizes on how shallow base even the most established traditions so often really stand.

It has been shown that a certain level of population control can be achieved with very little effort, if there just is will to tackle the problem. Religious leaders however already bear the main responsibility for the continuing population explosion in the developing world.
I fear that the issue cannot be resolved before their power is diminished to an extent where sensible population control policies can be enforced in the poorest countries of the world also. The other option of course is that they change their odd religious dogmas so that these countries can be saved from hunger, poverty and desolation brought about by the uncontrolled rise of population.

The religious mind viruses have been such a success largely because after infection the infected are very often drawn into perfecting that very same mind virus.

The aim must be in the creation of real local economies that can provide the needed income for the population and soon also create the needed tax-income base for the state to build the education-system, health care and social security this growing economy needs to sustain itself.

However all this needs to be coupled tightly into a tight policy of population control, as no real economy can create jobs in the rate population now grows in many of the developing countries.

Here we however stumble into brick-wall created by dogmatic religions and also multiculturalists who want us to accept the right of the religious leaders to do what they please. Even trying to discuss these matters leads easily to silence.

The multiculturalist dogma creates a trap where all discussion of the negative effects of local traditions, customs and religions is forbidden and in effect all solutions for the problems of the developing world need to come from outside.

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The greatest achievement of modern versions of these three desert-religions is to maintain that the original message of goodness and kindness is still there quite intact and it is still the most important feature of that religion.

A true miracle is that this claim can be maintained, even though century after century and generation after generation the leaders of these religions have systematically pushed these principles aside in practice in their endless quest to gain more followers and power and secure the continuation of their religious organization.

One of the toughest tasks facing anybody who is in the business of criticizing religions is how to handle the

The recent circus of presidential elections in Iran again fooled lot of people into seeing Iran as a real democratic nation, when there was a real and contested election to the seemingly highest office of the land.

Creating sharia courts in Western Europe is not the solution, on the contrary we have a direct need to make the followers of the medieval religious traditions to see that there cannot be two sets of laws enforced in any society simultaneously.

Eating is the most basic human activity and divisions based on the eating habits work at the very basic level. That is the main reason why religions are so extremely interested in what their followers are eating and what not.

This ‘religious’ organization can now operate with impunity all over the world, even if the greedy strategies of extracting money from the followers of this ‘faith’ have been exposed over and over again and even proved in the court of law in many countries over decades.

The Only True Church is now however in a real danger of ending up in the sidelines in western societies, where it truly belongs with other fringe cults like it, and so it is finding desperately ways to modernize its image so tarnished by its extremely old-fashioned real life actions

The modern system of medical care is now one of the basic tasks of the welfare state and it has nothing to do with the old Christian principles of handing out self-selected amount of charity to the poor.

A shocking sex scandal in the Catholic Church - a man kissed a woman

The Middle East under the Muslim rule has in practice became an open air museum of Christianity where many of the oldest forms of that faith haven been preserved in their crude and original banality.

Are there really just two choices before us: capitalism or socialism? I have come to think that the right answer should be a brand new combination of these two.

Roxana Saberi fights herself free