The only hope he saw, was in a total re
birth of human religious beliefs. Families that stay together pray together, can
be blown apart together too. If the seed of reason can be planted, it can he
harvested too. To reason one had to listen, listening, unlike shopping it meant
using the brain. Listening to the gods of war, explain themselves on the TV,
trying to appear reasoned, each defendant putting on a show, hoping to impress
the global jury, all of them well educated, intellectuals of a kind, harry
couldn’t see how these men, they were all men, how did they manage to have
followers, or were people like sheep, as the bible says. The rules of social
engagement, mixed marriages were a non event. A dowry also had to be present.
Children were to be brought up in the religion of the husband; the list went on
and on. With men so unreliable, it didn’t make sense putting them under
pressure. Women had to be shielded from men, would have been a far better
excuse to blame global warming for covering their heads. And women were the
property of the husband and children too, till all were dead. Education of the
woman was considered dangerous. She might learn to think for herself. The list
of funny and odd rules the various religions used to control women mainly, made
interesting TV too. The program was Swedish made. That explained its clarity.
Finding a wife or husband is a matter for the parents explains the narrator.
The background image is bleak, of a small village, huddled together rocks; in
rags the children laugh and run about. Marrying cousins, half sisters, uncles,
there was a clause for every possibility. All religions he concluded, found it
necessary to control the woman. When she bled, for whom she bled, by whom she
bled, to the last drop, her life was managed for her. Women must be thick
concluded harry, for putting up with all these rules.
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