VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
Religion is a smoke screen.  Does it matter if you chop bits off your kids &quot;because a book told me to&quot; or &quot;because my mom told me to&quot;?
All religions are silly ridiculous relics.  Let&#x27;s stop talking about them.<p>The problem is the culture as a whole.  Does it work? Or does it not work?<p>The way to know if a culture works is to look at migration patterns.  People leave cultures that don&#x27;t work and go to better cultures.<p>But people from shitty cultures are still people, so this obvious enormous fact goes completely unnoticed.  They are not going to accept so easily that their culture is not good.  It takes generations.<p>Or it _took_ generations.  Now it may not happen at all, because some people pride themselves on respecting and _preserving_ other people&#x27;s silly cultures, instead of just respecting the people.