-Why do religious people overtly and repeatedly state they are religious, while non-religious people do not talk much about their (non-interesting) beliefs? I used to think this was a phenomenon limited to Iran and England. Now I see it is rampant as well. In each class I attend, there is at least one person who mentions the phrase “the church I attend”, or “my religion”, or “my religious beliefs” at least once during the class. They enjoy courting the negative attention, the public polite lack of acknowledgement and / or embarrassment which greets their declarations of faith. Last week, on a totally irrelevant topic, one girl stated: “I know this is not a popular view, especially in this class, but I am pro-life, because of my religious views.” (that means she is anti-abortion) Come on sister, get a life. I have paid and am paying through my nose to be here, I did not come to hear SOME MORE of this stuff.
-How come Canadian girls, despite their native blond prettiness, try so hard to make themselves unattractive, and have obviously NO sense of style? Mybe it has something to do with the subject I am studying, but here it seems that girls are competing to win “casual sloppy” dress awards, combined with the absolute minimum, or non-existent make-up. I am not appluading Tehrani girls, who generally feel naked unless they have at least two tubes of L’Oreal XTreme mascara loaded on their lashes, but this kind of “I do not care what I look like- value me for my brain and character” attitude sometimes feels a little bit overdone.
I am overwhelmed with readings and assignments. I am still lamenting summer.
Tags: Canadian girls, Canadian style, religion, religion in Canada
October 3, 2008 at 8:21 pm |
yeah
these guys are pretty religious
i guess if you have a fine society, you dont think much, cause there is no problem to think about, and hence you dont find paradoxes in your relg.
at least i -and most iranians who hate relg- started by hating the government and the society, and because the government had its roots in relg, i started hating relg too. but of course i didnt stop there…
October 5, 2008 at 1:29 pm |
Cause that’s what religion is about; say it out loud! Fight for it, insult other people, make a fuss, then dear merciful God will drop you in heaven.
I can’t believe they don’t wear make-up; life without make-up would be a mistake; a big one.
October 5, 2008 at 1:30 pm |
Religion Sucks
October 7, 2008 at 12:13 am |
and why non-religious people are so sensitive when a religious person expresses that he is religious? a religious person has the same right to express himself (including his religious opinion) as others have, as you have, as any other person has. If you were in Iran, such groaning of why religious peolpe are such and such could be acceptable, but now you are there and you can also express your opinions, instead of complaining about that; and if you don’t want to – or maybe can not for any reason – to do so, that is something else.
if “freedom of expression” is to be respected, it is respected for religious and non-religious; for you and your siblings (teng, salad, …) as well, whose comments show hidden hatered…
October 7, 2008 at 12:13 pm |
Excuse me banoo, however sensitive non-religious people are (and who said I was non-religious? ), at least they don’t order DEATH sentences and KILL people for holding beliefs they do not approve. The point of the blog was that religious people can’t stop from voicing their boring beliefs and social practices in any, non-related context. if it was a religious studies class, or a class about the ethics of abortion, she was welcome to talk about her beliefs. As it was she should have just shut up.
Also, you shouldn’t be surprsed if having lived the most part of lives in a highly intolerant society, we should have become a teeny weeny bit intolerant ourselves.
October 7, 2008 at 7:14 pm |
Did I propose you are non-religious? I can’t see any sign of that in my comment. and come on, do you really believe all those poeple who expresses everywhere, in any non-related context according to you, that they are religious, order DEATH sentences and KILL people for holding beliefs they do not approve?
I got the point of the post at the first sight, you did not get the point of “freedom of expression” ; if you really assume his religious boring biliefs is irrelevant to the context, why you dont use your logic, your freedom of expression, your confidence and courage (if you think you have) to stop him commenting irrelevant points? just if you were as brave as he was, and had the same faith on your whatever religious or non-religious or scientific or whatsoever belief you have, you could stop him from commenting irrelevant issue. there, you can do that without being worried about any possible harmful consequences regarding whatever living in a society like Iran of today may cause. you choose not to speak out your beliefs, you choose to stop others from expressing themselves, although it may sound stupid to you.
in musical context, if one say something about stock market all would stop him, with logic and rationale. if one start talking about religion, others would complain why religious people are such and such. and please do not ferget, non-religious poeple have the tendency to lable religious people with whatever relevant or irrelevant (it’s another story not suitable for this long comment)….. the last point, there, you can practise and use your right of freedom of speech, like all those religious people who are brave and confident (or even confident and brave enough to be or sound stupid!) to express themselves everywhere, in any context
October 7, 2008 at 7:55 pm |
regarding that i used the term “hate” a couple of times in my comment, I dont believe I am “hiding” my hatred.
October 7, 2008 at 8:12 pm |
Look at the all people who are in hiding and have to live under 24 hour guards because they “insulted” a world religion whose name we know but won’t say here. Look at all the people who were killed throughout history for refusing to believe in a particular cult. The logical extreme of religion, is, yes, unfortunately, regrettably, death to unbelievers. Moderate practitioners of a religion don’t like to say this out loud, but in fact it is they who are deviating from the holy texts, -their so-called fanatic or extremist co-religionists have the “correct” interpretation.
As for why I didn’t stop her- I didn’t have to. The lecturer and other students politely stopped her by simply ignoring her religious outburst. Nobody `debated` her- it was not the time or place to discuss abortion from a religious point of view (which was the whole point of my blog post in the first place). She was wasting the class`s time. And that is a BIG SIN.
October 7, 2008 at 8:36 pm |
Let me see… How does this Banoo (!) know Salad n teng r your siblings?! OMG she sounds dangerous…. she’s religious & nervous & looking for a fight too… Oh dear god, Keep her away from us; Amen!
October 7, 2008 at 11:20 pm |
I thought of that as well. I assumed she was one of you or teng’s more sinister friends. after all, you have classmates who leave you pretty weird remarks.
Even cyberspace isn’t free of “Amerin-be-maroooof” and “Nahian-az-monkar”
October 8, 2008 at 8:56 am |
Yeah unfortunately… seems we can never get rid of ‘em!