27 August 2010

Phobic? You betcha

Rico says he's been accused of being Islamophobic.
Wrong.
He is, if there is such a word, religiophobic, as in 'allergic to religion'.

There are a bunch of them out there:
Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.5 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
Indigenous: 300 million
African Traditional: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand

The numbers amaze even Rico, who thought he'd heard everything... (But it's nice to see he's among over a billion of the non-religious.)

But if you really want to solve the problem, it's not by beating up some poor Islamic cabdriver or even fire-bombing the mosque at Ground Zero. You gotta come up with a dozen or so small (you don't want to get carried away here) nukes and have them go off in the following places:

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem (a two-fer; you get the birthplace of Christianity and Judaism)
Mecca (and Medina, if you have an extra)
Kamakura (though Buddha would be the first to laugh and encourage you; he wouldn't like the 'cult of personality' that grew up around him)
Salt Lake City (just the Mormon temple, if you can get one small enough)
and wherever Scientology is centered these days.

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