Blasphemy

This sketchbook drawing was a result of some incident of 'Blasphemy' in Pakistan In the recent past and the subject reared it's ugly ahead again this weekend in Denmark.

I find it hard to understand how humans can believe in non existent or imaginary entities and invent mythologies around them and then become so fanatical that they can kill other humans who don't agree with their interpretation of their imaginary invention, question them or even ridicule them.

There seems to be an innate propensity to feel the need for and find by any irrational means an omnipotent power directing our lives and to belong to a group. This may be understandable in a primitive world but in the modern world it seems to illustrate the immense power of early childhood influence that is imprinted and passed on from generation to generation. Ie conditioned.

I am stunned when I see even educated westerners such as doctors etc being capable of adopting such beliefs despite the lack of evidence - something that goes against the bedrock of their training and the purpose of their profession and in my opinion is an affront to hard earned establishment of Rational thought in the western world.

The answer is not mediaeval Utopianism that's for sure - but what is, I don't know.