Religion and the Goddess of Nepal

So,

I bought a book called "God is Not Great"

It's subtitle,
"How Religion Poisons Everything"

It's true.

It does, I think.

It's a strongly written book,
making sensible arguments against
almost every case that organized religion
has tried to make for itself.

I think if Jesus was a nice man,
and he came back now,
he would be embarrassed.

The book fences with Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, even Buddhism!

How can you have beef with Buddhism?

This guy does.

It's a good book,
hard to read,
but you should buy it.

In other news,
The Living Goddess of Nepal
has been de-goddified.

I know, it's terrible.

Apparently in Nepal,
they worship these little girls,
chosen at two years old,
by treating them like princesses
and bowing their heads to their little feet.

They remain as girls, worshipped
for the gods living inside them,
until the first day they bleed.

Like, period-bleed,
I don't think they meant
lose-a-tooth-bleed.

On that day, the spirit flies out,
into a weird Nepalese sanitary napkin,
and the girl goes back to being a normal person.

She is then kicked out of the Temple,
and back out into the real world.

To live as the most spoiled little bitch in the Universe.

Who can blame her?

Imagine...
you're a god.

everything is groovy in Nepal,
and then when your life just starts to get all weird,
hormones, hair in funny places, blood from your vagina,
you are no longer a god, and you're just normal.

You have to live among people who used to
quite literally grovel at your feet.

They think its perfectly normal.

Much more normal than worshipping a
god who says we can only talk to him
if we go through gay guys in white collars.

-p