In this case, of course, "Thank god" is a figure of speech, since I don't believe in God. But one cannot deny that it is because of the Judeo-Christian history of the Western world that I, a female atheist, can live in this country (the USA) and enjoy life, I can be the best I want to be.
I can go for a drive every day if I feel like getting some fresh air (although how long we as a people will be allowed to go for a drive any time we feel like it remains to be seen - global warming, you know).
I can expose my face to the breeze without having to wear a burkha, I can express my opinions and while there are always male chauvanists on the sports message boards (ie. CBS Sports, on which I post as AvengersGirl) who will respond to my comments with "Go into the kitchen and bake me a pie" or "Go back to the kitchen where you belong" - those are individual troglodytes just trying to put me down, not an institutionalized repression...I don't have to be afraid of a police squad coming for me and throwing me in jail because I dared to call a male an idiot on a CBSSports message board.
And if I should ever happen to be raped, I don't have to worry that it is *I* who will be thrown in jail!
Which is what women in Sharia law Muslim countries have to live with. (Or should I say, exist with? It's hardly living.) How can anyone live like that...I don't even like to wonder. Being told every day that you're no better than a dog. Stuck in your house - with no books to read and no TV to watch - only able to leave if you're accompanied by a male relative... in danger of being killed by your male relative as an honor killing should you even make lovey dovey eyes at someone, or refuse to marry whom you are told... there are many forms of hell on earth and that's one of them.
Rush talked about this a bit on his program yesterday (Friday) - a woman in Saudi Arabia arrested because she dared to drive a car. All kinds of news articles in Saudi - if the drive ban against women is lifted, prostitution will increase and there will be no more virgins left... these Muslims don't seem to have too much faith in their people holding true to their beliefs without the "force" of segregating half of their population.
So you know even if the ban is lifted, there'll be some self-righteous guys with Uzis who will first rape and then kill any woman who does try to drive. The rape because she's "asking for it", the killing because... well, just because. It's just a woman.
So I say again, thank god for Western civilization!
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