Monday 12 December 2011

What Happens When Religion Controls State?

For those of us who believe in fairies, unicorns, flying spaghetti monsters, Gods, Jinns, devils, mermaids and other wonderful and magical things, please remember that not every unicorn is pink and not every fairy is your Godmother:

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery' (http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-executes-woman-convicted-sorcery-132159048.html)

It is time that someone breaks the news to the kingdom that is evidently stuck in a world where things said by a 7th-century simpleton are considered to be the pinnacle of philosophy that no, Santa isn't real, stars are not missiles that are glued to the sky-dome to shoot down prying Jinns and David Copperfield is an illusionist and not a sorcerer.

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