An 8-yr-old speaks: religion causes genocide of millions

Watch this eight-year-old girl fulminate against religion. Has she been watching Richard Dawkins? He certainly rails against the religious indoctrination of children in his recent book, but doesn't mention the opposite. Thanks to Tom for this.

It is in fact probably a fake, created to promote a band. It has been very successful, with a million views in a fortnight, 11,000 comments and 495 links. Now 496 counting mine.

How to measure success in today's world I guess, although something about this strikes me as extremely sad.

Comments

[Frank Schnittger]

Your "Stir Up! Stir Up! It's the SORs!" thread has now reached over 300 comments and still counting - and is a good example why videos like the one you posted here are so popular and poignant - rather than sad. Older people fighting over the right to exclude and discriminate against people they don’t like – to keep the Parish safe for good little Tories like themselves.

Your contribution, Ruth, hasn’t covered you in glory either. You repeated the canards that Guesthouse owners would be required to permit gays fornicate under their roof and that preachers would have to skate around church doctrines on homosexuality.

There is a fine line between moral disapproval and discrimination and vilification directed at gays who are equal citizens before the law, and sinners before Christ. Too bad young people have to leave organised religion in order to avoid crossing it.

Watch the Churches taking one more step towards irrelevance in modern society – read what their supporters have to say on that abominable thread…

[Keith Downer]

Frank, if you want to write a review of this young actor recommending her for an Oscar, no problem but any attempt to hang any sort of debate on this performance is stretching credulity a little too far.

[Emanuel Appel]

letter from America

Dear Ruth,

Happy Hanukah!

This minor Jewish holiday of freedom from tyranny is based on the book of the Maccabbes.

The Gay Brigade was very much in evidence during Maccabbean times when the Greeks based in Damascus decided to wipe out the religion and culture of Israel. Why? They couldn't stand stand anyone who'd say "NO" to their political correctness.

To gays as quiet citizens, all. To gays as a protected group, nothing.

[Julie]

It's not fake, inasmuch as you are running a genuine promo for The Bastard Fairies. I'd surmise that the child in the promo is most likely the daughter of Yellow Thunder Woman:

http://www.myspace.com/thebastardfairies

About The Bastard Fairies

The Bastard Fairies could be termed an oxymoron. If this is the case then their music is most definitely oxymoronic. Naughty but nice, sweet and sour, beautifully macabre, wonderfully morose. .....

I doubt the rest would be suitable to post here. LOL...I have downloaded the whole CD, just to shock the kids.

[dan]

Perhaps it is more accurate to say "An 8 yearold has been COACHED to say religion causes genocide."

Religion has blood on its hands, it cannot be denied. But, if this young girl progresses to study history at any serious level, she will confront the reality that the most egregious, massive crimes have been committed by atheistic and post-religious societies.

Nazi Germany replaced worship of Hitler and a mish-mash of pagan and personal beliefs in the place where Christianity had held sway before committing the Holocaust. Stalin's Russia and Mao's China ruthless suppressed religious beliefs prior and coterminous with exterminating multiple millions of their own people.

See also Khmer Rouge.

Rwanda was not a "religious" genocide, despite the criminal actions of some priests and nuns. Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia was perpetrated by life-long communists, who briefly expropriated Orthodox identity to fuel their political ambitions.

Only an 8 year old could believe that religion is the cause of genocide.

[dan]

I mean, who has told this child that the Nazi party were a religious movement?

This strikes me as a subtle form of child abuse.

[georgie]

Sorry folks, but indoctrinating children with religious beliefs is "child abuse". Oh, and Hitler was a Roman Catholic not an atheist.

[Chris Gillibrand]

Hitler can hardly be described as a Roman Catholic. After victory he intended to retire to Linz. Speer's plans included the demolition of the great pilgrimage Church dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows on Postlingberg overlooking Linz. It was to be replaced with a temple to the German gods.

Eva Braun has some claims to be considered a somewhat practicing Catholic. She was educated by the Mary Ward Sisters (also known as the English Ladies) in Braunau. She told the Mother Superior that she had intervened with a high party official (from memory Bormann) to prevent the closure of the convent. Sadly, this claimed intervention was totally ineffective.

Hitler's parents' house in Leonding is now occupied not for the first time in history by a gravedigger (although in this case, local authority rather than national). The grave of his parents is still very well kept. Long and nasty shadows but little to do with Catholicism.

With the child one is reminded of the saying attributed to St Francis Xavier (Feast Day 4th December also in the Anglican calendar), "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man (or in this case person)." She is only repeating what she has heard from her elders. I thought, however, the idea of a modern, liberal education was self-determination.