Mark Scofield
1 min readMay 22, 2022

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It gets worse.

If, due to unforeseen discrimination for questioning unquestionable religious doctrine, you are driven from your hometown to find employment and get a job offer from Saudi Arabia, you have to declare your religion when applying for your work visa.

Copied directly from my Google search:

"So if you are applying for a visa to enter Saudi Arabia, you will be asked to list your religion. Applicants do not have to specify their particular sect (e.g., Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran), but they do have to state "Protestant", "Christian," "Muslim," etc. Responses such as "Agnostic" or "Atheist" are not accepted."

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to say you are Jewish either. So, to be a productive member of society, any society, when corralled into such an unfortunate circumstance, in order to continue living, you must chose one of the predetermined options left for us by our ever so enlightened ancestors. Atheism is not accepted. Even agnostic,, the most rational choice available, is forbidden.

Conformity is of upmost importance planet-wide. Acts of intelligence are punished severely.

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Mark Scofield
Mark Scofield

Written by Mark Scofield

Coming out of the shadows. No more pseudonym. Humans are designed to fail. I'm Exhibit A. Often writing semi-fictional history and autobiographical stories.

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