{"id":754,"date":"2016-02-28T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majorscorner.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:12:50","slug":"themajorscorner-inhumanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"#TheMajorsCorner            &#8220;Inhumanity.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"#TheMajorsCorner            &quot;Inhumanity.&quot;\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Some of my readers will recall that I have always been interested in man\u2019s inhumanity to man, especially when it comes to religion. For eons after having a chat with the fashionable \u201cGod\u201d of the moment, some man with a beard waves a finger at a group of people and says: \u201cThey are all to be killed.\u201d<!--more-->The really strange thing about this is that they are killed. How did this come about?<br \/>\nWe can all say it was a time of horrible ignorance and savagery, so what would you expect? Well, yes, but it is still going on with a vengeance.<br \/>\nEvery morning numbers of people all over the world get up with only one thing in mind, and I don\u2019t mean eggs and bacon, but rather the deaths of fellow humans, because a respected leader in their religion told them to do it.<br \/>\nWhy is that? I don\u2019t think there is an easy answer, but we must get to the children in this world and encourage a cult of reason rather than revenge for disagreeing over dogma. If only the world could civilize the small ones\u2019 minds before they are taught to hate their neighbours. After all, as travel and communication improve, we are all neighbours now.<br \/>\nCan one imagine being a North Korean today, where a family dictatorship flourishes? Those poor people are brainwashed from birth to feel nothing but love and obedience for Kim Jong-un. It is a place where every person is a spy looking for disloyalty amongst their own families. Where the president fed his uncle to starving dogs and used an anti-aircraft cannon to blow apart the Minister of Defence. All because Kim Jong-un said so, because a cult of personality has a stranglehold in that wretched country.<br \/>\nWe had someone like that at our club for a while. A dreadful man somehow joined our home of homes, we were never sure how, perhaps money changed hands but not certain about that. However, once in, it is damned hard to throw a chap out.<br \/>\nHe was rude to everyone, especially the staff, who, of course, are unarmed in any battle with a mem. He leered at women, especially Mrs. Hynde-Quarters, and splashed coffee on our daily papers.<br \/>\nI am not equating the behaviour of our Mr. Squatter, for that was his name, with feeding his uncle to dogs or the use of high-powered weaponry, just that he changed the face of the club and intimidated everyone through dint of personality. Thankfully he dropped dead shouting at one of the club flunkies over soggy horseradish, allowing the club to return to normal.<br \/>\nSir Thomas More, the principal civil servant and great friend of Henry VIII, had his own torture chamber in the back garden in spite of the fact he wrote that wonderful book Utopia in 1516. He claimed the torture was for their own good, \u201cthey\u201d being anyone who did not believe in his form of Catholicism.<br \/>\nOld Tommy was such a religious nut he wore a hair shirt and often prayed for five hours but still found the time to sleep, run the country and torture passing infidels. If the torture routine did not get the chap or chapess to recant, he would have them lowered into boiling oil. Interesting fellow, eh? He, as we know, lost his head for not approving of Henry\u2019s stand on the new Anglican church, which, surprise, made Henry the chief. Sir Thomas refused to make fun of the Pope\u2019s funny hat and so went to his death still wearing the hair thingee.<br \/>\nIt appears to me that if one wants to start a religion today one does what has always been done: Design strange clothes, enslave women, hurt others and do a great deal of shouting and finger- waving. Oh, and don\u2019t forget to make the executives vastly rich. That always helps, and besides, that is what God wants, because they just had a word with him while you were out. And you need a miracle. No problem. It is a miracle that anyone believes this stuff.<br \/>\nThe world lumbers on, with thousands every day suffering because some bearded old man deems it necessary, and then someone carries it out. It is a sad mystery to me and many others the way religious zeal stops all reason. It is as if we all took a \u201cstupid\u201d pill and lost our minds.<br \/>\nHow else does one explain Abraham nearly killing his son because the nutty father heard God\u2019s voice telling him to kill Isaac? And as far as burning bushes go, I avoid them like the plague, especially if some fiery branch says hello.<br \/>\nAny religion that is orthodox or fundamental appears to do only harm. As far as religion and I go, if anyone cares, I believe in the Golden Rule, which to me sums it up pretty much: Do to others what you would have others do unto you.<br \/>\nThat has always appeared to be existentialism to me. But more Camus than Sartre, I would hope.<br \/>\nIn short: Be nice and leave the hair shirt in the top drawer.<br \/>\nCopyright Christopher Dalton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"#TheMajorsCorner            &quot;Inhumanity.&quot;\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Some of my readers will recall that I have always been interested in man\u2019s inhumanity to man, especially when it comes to religion. For eons after having a chat with the fashionable \u201cGod\u201d of the moment, some man with a beard waves a finger at a group of people and says: \u201cThey are all to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-majors-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/majorscorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}