hello.

I am quite certain that we are all products of our perspectives.
I am angry that this world has many double-standards, is highly gendered, and in essence, terribly unfair.

Equality is somewhat like perfection though, difficult to achieve and ultimately very unattainable. Equality does not necessarily guarantee Perfection though, because more often than not, fairness arrives in mismatched, unbalanced packages. The beauty is in the complementary im-balance(This is similar to the Yin/Yang concept).

I also know that a big distinction lies in the catering for people in masses- 'intellecuals' vs. the common people. We are fed diferent material depedning on our backgrounds, our socio-economic class, the things we are exposed to on a daily basis. An example is this :The free tv channels provided in every country usually only revolve around silly game-shows/reality tv/soap operas/junk food of the tv world; they feed the general masses with the type of tv programs they like to watch. Cheap, easy and voyueristic. Whereas if you had a little more money and wanted to be more informed you could get a subscription to cable you could be exposed to BBC/CNN (which actually focuses on world issues unlike Australian News)/documentary series which in turn broadens your perspective on life (this is not to say that all people who watch cable tv are intelligent, it is merely a small example of the large amount of potential exposure to different material based on the category/class of persons you belong to)

Just like how pastors/preaches/scholars/scientists in general know the gospel slightly differently from your typical sunday church-goer, whos eager and willing non-questiong hearts and minds and souls are utterly devoted to serving their lord and saviour. You see, passion is good, but passion without reason equates to mindless obsession. Common-people passion does not question, it follows wholeheartedly, certain that one day their mindless devotion will reap eternal salvation.

I happen to think that there is a requisite large amount of brainwashing involved. Here, issues of culture, tradition and history come into play. The various concepts of the bible/religion are pushed through generation to generation, manifesting itself in a person's subconcious and embedding itself deeply in every facet of the persons life, nonwithstanding how absurd these religious stories may actually sound.

The idea of Faith, is Ideal and Nice, but it opposes Reason.
It appeals to the Human desire for security and meaning, and the human heart, when vulnerable, is raw and beating and open to anything. Faith (even as small as a mustard seed), therefore serves as an entirely effective concept for the non-wavering, ever-standing validification of the presence of God(s) in general, together with the persecution of minority sub-sets of thinking, holy wars, various genital mutilations, painful body-harming rituals and condemnation of fellow humankind.