First they’ve had to put up with skin whitening creams … then they’ve had to put up with GREY’s EYE ON ASIA “research” report and now this …
When Charinee, one of my wonderful colleagues, first showed it to me, I thought it was a spoof and then when I looked up the website, I realised it was probably true.
I openly admit I am not religious – at least when it’s based on how organised religion says I should behave and believe.
Infact, if truth be known, very few things can piss me off as much as listening to a religious zealot act all self-righteous because they’re talking to someone who doesn’t share their views or faith.
The weird thing is, I probably feel more distain towards blind followers of Catholicism and/or Christianity than any of the other religions.
Maybe it’s because as a kid, I was more exposed to those faiths so I’m slightly more aware of some of the 2 faced, double standards that exist within both the religion and some of their followers [as it does in all faiths] – but at the heart of it, I guess I still can’t work out how something that tells you to treat others as you’d like to be treated yourself can end up being the foundation for more troubles and death than all the other possible contributing factors put together.
Yet despite all this, I am a huge believer in the power and value of faith.
I genuinely believe that it can help people improve and better their life … give them support, belief and encouragement at times where they feel isolated, helpless and alone.
And for the record, I’m not saying this because in a twisted kind of way, religion was the earliest form of branding and advertising and I want to feel better about what I do … I mean it, because I’ve seen it and felt it at various times in my life.
Faith only starts to really piss me off when people use it to judge or control others but then maybe that’s what it was always created to do given one of the most well known pieces of ‘advice’ is “the meek shall inherit the earth” even if the Truth Ministry will probably claim it actually meant to say “the meek shall not be Asian”.