Canada U.S. Religion Free
One of the joys of living in Canada and the U.S. is absence of religion. What? Yes, they are religion free, but also offer citizens the option of practising their religion. It’s the best of both worlds.
Example. One summer, a girl on the bus started stripping two stops before we got to the last stop, the shopping mall. She took off the head and face covering, stepped out of the long skirt she was wearing and stuffed them in her backpack. She entered the mall as just another teen wearing ripped jeans and a baseball cap.
Teenagers do that all the time. Some leave home wearing school uniform and change into street or sexy clothes depending on where they are going. The girl on the bus changed for religious reasons. She left home as a representative of religion. She entered the mall as a religion-free individual. It’s something immigrants seldom acknowledge as one of the disadvantages of living in Canada and the U.S. They left their countries for various reasons including cultural and religious reasons.
Religion is from the cradle to the grave in closely-knit religious societies. In some cases, what used to be one country is now two countries, because of religion. Culture is the same glue in societies where men control land, woman and beast. For women, culture is synonymous with tradition, and it means perpetuation of their oppression. Some women marry outside their race, precisely to avoid suffocating culture.
In 2023, religion is suffocating too because it has turned friends, neighbors, colleagues and members of the same political party against each other, in what is supposed to be religion free societies.
Nonqaba waka Msimang
Executive Blogger
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