Suppose You Hate Your Religion

Suppose you hate your religion. How should you destroy it? You would do very little by telling the faithful that you don’t believe.

You might do much more damage by subverting it. Suppose you can brainwash some nitwits and convince them to do something outrageous in the name of the religion you hate. Something like

1. Hijacking an airplane and crashing it into a building


2. Assassinating the leader of another religion


3. Blowing up a giant ancient statue of some other religion


4. Threatening people of other religions who dare say anything about your religion, or


5. Rioting on trivial issues relating to your religion.

Your hope is that you can tap into a deep-seated self-hatred in your religion. You want to send people into the streets with blind rage – a rage at the death of the respect that your religion once had, a rage at the death of the peace that your religion once offered, a rage at the death of the faith that God loves you.

The hope is that you would eventually make reasonable people of your own faith defensive and even a bit ashamed at what people of your faith do. You would want to show the world that your religion is unreasonable.

But no matter how unreasonable you act, there will be some people who will think, "If they are upset, it must be our fault."

What do you do then?

Hey, it’s fun to burn stuff.