A bit of tongue-in-cheek humour on the Evils of Religion

A bit of tongue-in-cheek humour on the Evils of Religion

By

Dinshaw Patel

• They believe in a load of Bronze Age absurdities.
• They have fetishes for pain and suffering. 
• Their ethics are wishy-washy and often not based on any rational foundation.
• Some mutilate their bodies in name of their imaginary god(s).
• As Bertrand Russell aptly puts it, “My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
• They kneel and make absurd gestures in unnatural postures facing the sun, symbols, mountains, sea, fire, photos, statues, stone structure, rocks and all that challenges rationality.
• The Zoroastrians not only wash themselves with bull’s urine but also drink it polluting their own bodies inside out.
• They refer to their god as omnipotent.  It would be more apt to call him impotent. 
• In their metaphysics, they build absurd complex structures on marshmallow foundations.
• Their institutions are amongst the richest and yet they are exempted from paying taxes.
• Their prayers are loud and irritating.  The Zoroastrian priests whine and wail as if traumatized by bellyache, while the Mullahs howl and scream with deafening sounds.  Others moan as if suffering from constipation.   
• They are like infantile who cannot do without an illusionary daddy-crutch in the sky.
• They destroy spontaneity from an early age by implanting their morbid myths.
• They divide humanity and are often the cause of wars.
• They rule by the fear of the wrath of an delusional entity.
• They have imaginary friends among the dead, winged humans and all that remains unseen.
• Their god has as much a reality-status as Santa Claus.  
• They prefer imbecilic fables  to intelligent literature.
• They prefer preaching to listening.
• They prefer faith to reason.
• And, they prefer death to life. 

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THE FINGER

The Finger by Dinshaw Patel  - (2016)

“The Finger” is 30 X 30 (inches) canvas with a collage of pages taken from religious books of Judeo-Christian, Zoroastrian, Mohammedan and other delusional faiths.  The middle finger (with Rodin's Thinker) symbolizes a defiant gesture against all the hocus-pocus gibberish that is spewed by the religionists.  

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    A video from the Zoroastrian (fire) temple, Udvada Atash Behram, India.

A Zoroastrian priest whining and wailing as if traumatized by a bellyache while giving reverence to a fire that has no utility (except delusional).