The hottest place in hell

The hottest place in Hell should be reserved for fanatics who destroy other people’s religious art and artifacts.  This happened again in the Maldive Islands last week.  A small group of Muslim fanatics destroyed some 30 Buddhist statues, some of which dated back to the 6th century, in the Maldives Naitonal Museum.  One of the statues was a six-faced coral statue, another was a head of Buddha.  The men attacked the statues because they believed they were idols, not permitted under Islamic beliefs.

The Taliban did something similar in Afghanistan.  Huge Buddhas carved into the mountainside at Bamiyan were blown to bits.  When I say bits, I mean bits.  The Taliban deliberately turned the statues into tiny pieces that could never be restored.

Wrecking art work or archeological treasures in my view is worse than killing people.  People will be replaced.  In 100 years we won’t remember who was executed.  Destroying an art work, however, destroys it forever, and no future generation will ever experience it.

I am so tired of religious fanatics who think they have the only true god and know exactly what that god wants.  Actually, I don’t care if they think that.  Just butt out of the lives of the rest of us.