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"Religion has a history of lies, deception, and brutality that extend back to the beginning of time. But not until the advent of Judaism, and then the domination by Christendom, and the continuation of barbarism by the Moslems even today, did religion become a serious threat to everything good in the human heart. In the Old Testament, if it is to be believed, we discover Jews killing Hittites and others, men, women, and children, saving only the young maidens to be deflowered before death. Then Christianity came and Constantine, under the behest of the church made it illegal to be anything but a Christian. Theodosius, about 60 years later, went a step further, making it punishable by death to deny the Church. For over 1,000 years the Church/State marriage made it illegal to believe anything else, especially to not believe at all, or to advocate science that disputed the Church. Imprisonment, torture, death, were the wages of anyone daring to suggest that the earth revolved around the sun, the universe was infinite, that the Bible was just a book of myth, that the stories of Jesus and the Disciples were in no way substantially different than those of Mithra, Attis, Apollo, and many other of the early god myths. Hard won, religion in some nations has been separated from the state, and science progresses in an atmosphere of freedom. However, not all nations are free, and in the United States religion once again wants to take control of government, education, medicine, science, and most of all free speech."
"Our ancestors throughout the ages suffered untold horrors to speak freely ... tens of thousands, millions, were tortured and multitudes died on the rack, by the tongs, the vises, the screws, the boots of molten lead, the spikes of the iron maiden, and many more devices to "save the souls" of the wicked. Summoning unimaginable courage some people spoke the truth and their voices, over the centuries, added together to dispel the shackles of darkness imposed by superstitious beliefs in gods and arbitrary but absolute religious laws demanding total obediance."
"Today, it is politiclally incorrect to speak of these things, but prison, torture, and death are not always the result, except in some Moslem nations. How then is it that intelligent, educated people, who know better, seem not to be speaking out? Or are they and publishers, newspapers, and magazine editors, serving the bottom line, the almighty dollar, too cowardly to produce their works? These cartoons, my cartoons, and the quotes from famous men and women are designed to illustrate the immense danger that has been and still is represented by religion."
Further, I am a gender variant, and some of my cartoons and stories, are tediously researched material showing that throughout history gender variants have had a place. In the current climate of religious zeal, still affecting laws, altering people's minds,
and revising history to reflect a grand image to hide a savage past, our history, real history, is hard to ferret out. But I think it is nowhere more evident what religion does to a people, than what it has done to gender variants and still, by attitude and presumption of superiority, does by their wicked and misplaced condemnation. Religion, particularly Christianity and Mohammedanism, are a blight on humanity and the voices of good people must cry out again and again at their historical abuses, and at their continued attempt to dominate all other peoples ... and make no mistake, that is their intent, to dominate and control all people, including me and you."
Seladore - October, 2000
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