Never on a Sunday

I read recently about those unhappy campers in the Cook Islands who objected to internal flights taking place on the Sabbath.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8424640.stm

In most of the Western world, people couldn't care less what one does on a Sunday, shop, play sport, go to the pub, or even dare I say to whatever place of worship floats one's boat...

It wasn't that long ago, however that in this part of Ireland, people were unable to let their children play at the park as the swings were chained up by their local councillors, under the auspices of protecting people from having fun, leading to hell-fire and damnation.

In the Cook islands, protesters gathered at the airport, here they tend to camp around theatres showing 'controversial' plays (maybe two guys kiss and deliberately cause Armageddon) or breathing in and out in a non-religious fashion.

Therein lies the problem. Whenever people become so dogmatic as to exclude any rational thought, free speech or discussion and have the power to exclude others, be they believer/agnostic or atheist, we need to resist their zeal