With a God like this who needs Terrorists?

Bertrand Russell said that the more we try to underplay the role of religion in our lives, the stronger influence it brings to bear on them. So I can hope to shut my eyes off to all the mindless violence that is perpetrated in the name of religion, but only at the cost having the revulsion at all of it build slowly in my system. So, I am letting the bile out.

It is now common knowledge that the plethora of bombings in India (which by the way, also has a strong religious undercurrent to it, but I can appreciate the larger secessionist tendencies at play) did not claim anywhere near the number of lives as the stampede at the Naina Devi Temple. The death toll in that single accident is kinda larger than all the bombings put together. Some God that!

Oh, the Jihadis have nothing to jeer about either. Mecca claims a hearty share of its own victims every year during the 'Stoning the Satan' Ritual. Oh...did I mention the rather routine stampede at Sabarimala? There's a joke out there, about the itenary of events on that special day of Makara Sankranthi every year. Ask a 'Devasvom' Board official and he'll tell you this: First the pooja, then a small stampede, then camphor is secretly lit in the hills, then the massive stampede. Casualities vary from a dozen to a few hundreds.

Jeez...the Jihadis oughta let the saffron brigade construct the damn Ayodhya temple, sit back and twiddle thumbs. Lord Ram would work much better than any of their ammonium nitrate.