The Kite Runner 8

Well it seems I'm NOT caught up on the blogs, I'm not sure what happened but three books kind of got lost in the shuffle and never received a blog post, but I had mentally crossed them off as blogged and when I was doing my blog post catch-up run they were overlooked... I've finally calmed down enough to start fixing the problem, so here comes another blog post.

This book was alright, I've forgotten a lot of it but I remember enough to cover the main issue that is worthy of blogging on to a degree...

The thing I remember most about the book was the conflict within the religion of the main character between two groups of people in the religion, the names of which I can't remember, the group that was being discriminated against was called a name that I believe started with an H, but I forget the whole name...

Anyway the hatred of the minority group used to be simply considering them inferior in all ways, they'd be picked on and abused, but it turned into a Holocaust like scenario, with the mass slaughter of  innocent people being justified by religion. Apparently all religions share the common ground of being used to justify genocide, because that's what God wants... It's amazing how the sacred words of a religion are invariably twisted from things like "thou shall not kill" to "all members of this race must be exterminated in the name of God"

What's even more amazing is that not only can a few insane people twist religion in that way, but somehow they can make everyone else believe whatever sick twisted meaning they think they've discovered is the will of God. Then they can use these twisted ideas to gain power and wealth while they get people to slaughter each other.

I'm not sure how this happens, maybe people are all just really stupid, or maybe at heart we're all sadistic mass murderers looking for an excuse to reduce all we see to rubble. Whatever the reason, it doesn't change the fact that it happens way too often for my taste. The more I read about religion the more I believe that being an atheist is the best course of action, I still believe in God, but I don't think any currently established religion would bring me any closer to him/her/it. Religions as they are today seem like giant power ploys, no offense to any religious people who read this, but I have yet to hear of a religion that isn't seeping with corruption.

Well that's all I really have for this book, I'm not sure how the next two forgotten blogs will turn out, but it's time to move on to trying to do something about them.