Tuesday, July 19, 2005,3:24 AM
Of religion and responsibility
First of all, before I begin, I would like to say that I'm not a religious kind of person, so I would not touch on certain issues which I do not have much knowledge to back me up. Comments are greatly welcomed. =)

But Malaysians are the type of people who have the "hangat-hangat tahi ayam" type of attitude. We take things easy and tend to forget things until it has lost its steam. But when someone starts something that in the end turns into a big issue, people will start to follow and becomes the talk of the town. Some, I guess, don't even know what their doing and are easily influenced by other people, you can say that they follow blindly, thinking their on the right path. And before you know it, its all over and another issue pops up and everyone forgets about what had happened...

Well, for example the Sky Kingdom issue now, is it really necessary to actually burn Ayah Pin's, the so-called "deviationist sect" leader, personal properties? What the hell are these people thinking lah? Doing it in the name of religion? Sigh, since when religion teaches us to go on a rampage and start burning things and throwing petrol and burning tyres into people's property? Have they no respect for other people's rights and property, even if the person concerned is in the wrong? Even a criminal has the right to a fair trial. Vigilantes or just plain stupidity, up to you to decide, but for me these actions are really over the line and barbaric. I'm sure sooner or later, no one will bother about the Sky Kingdom anymore...

Same goes to the people who visits my neighbour for the weekly prayers or "doa", they are here to show God that their good human beings and yet they park their vehicles irresponsibly all over the streets and into people's driveways. Where is the justice in this? Its the same as not going for the prayers at all since you trouble other people. All for the sake of making things easier for them so that they don't have to walk so far from their car. Selfishness is the keyword here. People who live in the area don't honk their cars to get attention because its rude, so they ended up parking their car somewhere else till its all over.

Of religion and responsibility, yes, religion is important, but where's the point when you forget about responsibility?
 
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