Prayer for Children: Obligatory or Compulsion?

The Muslim prayer, also called Salat or Namaz, is obligatory in Islam. Muslims pray five times in a day, which has been made irremissible and unpardonable. 

Pillar of Islam: 

Salat is one of the main "five pillars" of Islam. While Muslims are to be awarded for offering prayers, missing prayer would lead to incur God's wrath upon them, and the punishment is emplacement in Hell. In my childhood, I was always stories about severe punishments for abandoning or neglecting the 'prayer'. :Like, someone who misses the Asr (Third Prayer of the day) is as if he has been robbed of his family and his wealth. There are several stories associated with leaving prayers and are meant to inflict pain onto the mind. 

Prayer for Children

Children in the Islamic Communities are told and taught to offer prayer, and this act is encouraged by narrating stories of hell-fire in case they'd miss prayer and other shuddery bullshit: Allah, the sadist God, pours fire with embers upon the ones who leave prayer; children are no exception.

Indoctrination: 

From the time children are very young, Islam like all other religions is instilled in the young, tender minds of children. It is the result of this indoctrination that children are not able to scrutinize and think objectively when they grow up; rather, they become extremists who seek to defend their religion and faith by cursing. swearing and threat-calling the ones who expose religion rationally.

The worst case scenario is they join Terrorist organizations that train them to annihilate people who oppose their ideas - the iconoclasts, atheists, agnostics and the like have no place in the world in their unsightly view of the world. Their perspectives have no shred of humanity for people holding opposing views. 

Islam urges parents to teach the young children its Prayer (The Salat) when the child is seven of age. At age ten, the Islamic Law constitutes physically forcing, even beating the child to offer prayer. 

In other words, parents may legally resort to hit their children in aspects related to prayer. 

Islam, as reported by Muslims themselves, offers freedom of volition, discretion and freewill. In the case of Prayer, all that becomes invalid and nullifies the freedom of actions, and free discretion becomes violable, causing to incur Allah's rage which would inflict punishment on the Muslims for having disobeyed his commandments.

I have a problem with the whole case of prayer. Salat demands subjugation of freewill and prostration to the supposedly Almighty God, and it represents subservience of a person to Allah. Where the heck is freewill in that? If a person is supposed to prostrate and lay down/bow down before him without considering his own willingness, as it is made obligatory by the religion, the person has no say in the matter at all. He is just doing the bidding of his God, which is subjugation, and not discretion. 

Children have young, immature minds and do what they're told, believe what they're taught. If children were taught to reason, the world would be better and there would be more intelligent people rather than belligerent assholes.

The not-so-free-to-act religion Islam offers no freedom of will; it is just delusional to think it does. And the obligatory prayer is a compulsion on children. A child will learn what he is taught; he will learn to offer prayer, not because he has freewill in choosing to offer prayer, but only because the religion demands prayer offering unquestionably and uncritically. 

It's high time people realized that prayer is a compulsion, a forceful obligation and there is a story of eternal punishment in hell associated to instruct people better. People lose the ability to think clearly in the face of fear, and thus, they "choose" to be suppressed rather than coming out in the open and facing truth.

Children should be taught to reason first, before holding any faiths or convictions. They should have freewill to choose for themselves. The world would progress faster if people just realize the importance of freewill and coexistence.

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Quote of the Day: Losing Loved Ones

How many of us have lost dear ones, the people we wished never died and lived with us longer? Everyone has someone important in their life, someone dear to them: their beloved ones - they may be a parent, a friend, lover, teacher or anyone we share a 'bond' with. A relationship that binds people together. Accepting death as a reality may be difficult, but losing someone we wish to protect or watching them die is even harder. We never want to see others in such pain; only sadists would love that kind of thing.
We forget the deceased ones, but it's seemingly impossible and hard to forget them. Their presence lingers in our hearts, minds and souls through their memories. We recall the "memories" we shared with them, and it is through this reminiscence that we stop evanescence of their memory and presence. They are always in our hearts.
Remember this beautiful quote by Mitch Albom that might make you nostalgic about your loved ones.

"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from losing them."

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Initialization of variables

When declaring a regular local variable, its value is by default undetermined. But you may want a variable to store a concrete value at the same moment that it is declared. In order to do that, you can initialize the variable. There are two ways to do this in C++:
The first one, known as c-like, is done by appending an equal sign followed by the value to which the variable will be initialized:
type identifier = initial_value ;
For example, if we want to declare an int variable called a initialized with a value of 0 at the moment in which it is declared, we could write:
int a = 0;
The other way to initialize variables, known as constructor initialization, is done by enclosing the initial value between parentheses (()):
type identifier (initial_value) ;
For example:
int a (0);
Both ways of initializing variables are valid and equivalent in C++.

// initialization of variables
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
int a=5; // initial value = 5
int b(2); // initial value = 2
int result; // initial value
undetermined
a = a + 3;
result = a - b;
cout << result;
return 0;
}

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Why call him God?

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the school of philosophy, "Epicureanism". 

He was a great thinker, and audacious to question the stereotypes and dogmas of his time. He even questioned God in a quaint manner.  

Theists and believers of God proudly claim that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. 

Epicurus posed mind-boggling questions about omnipotency of God.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

If God exists, and is willing to prevent evil, then what is stopping the omnipotent deity from exacting his duty on lowly humans. Does God require means to destroy evil; but that would be self-contradictory. Is God powerless or unable to purge evil from this world? If that is the case, God is certainly not omnipotent.

Is God able, but not willing? 

Granted God is omnipotent, and rules over everything under the sun - being the Creator, Designer and all, could it be He is not willing to prevent if not eradicate evil? If God himself isn't willing to pulverize evil, then He truly is menacing and malevolent. Anyone who has power and wants to do something, can easily do the part. When you see something bad, you must do something: this is common intuition. An adult cannot stand by watching a child being slaughtered, unless he is a maniac.
What God who calls himself merciful would want to see his creation in tatters? Only a sadist would enjoy the unsightly sight.

Is God both able, and willing?

Wait, then why isn't there any action? Could it be our sadist God loves delirious sabotage? Given that God can and wants to dispose of evil and malign in this world, then why is there so much evil in the world? If a supreme deity, that is God, controls the worldly affairs from his all-high Throne, why don't we see any observable or empirical results of his divine power? Simply, because God does not exist and all claims to his existence are groundless fairy tales - a load of crap.

Is God neither able, nor willing?

This one is pretty self-explanatory. If God has no divine power, nor does He want to obliterate evil, there is ultimately no reason to call such useless deity a God. 

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Live-action Naruto movie announced!!!! Bad idea

Lionsgate has announced that it’s making a live-action movie based on the popular anime and manga Naruto. Michael Gracey will be the visual effects supervisor.  

It goes without saying some if not a lot are not happy with this news mostly because of goiw well the previous manga to movie adaptions played out:

And this :

Not only have the production qualities be by far inferior but the script writers have up till date completely deviated from the source. Much to our dismay the Naruto live action movie might also share the same faith as its predecessors. One would think after so many mistakes one would realize his mistake but that obviously isn't the case here .

Not to mention even though being an american production the great train wreck:

The production quality might have been top notch but the casting and story was probably written by someone who hasn't even touched the source material. 

we at ratinaljunkies will continue to cover this pleas tell us your thoughts on the matter in the comments.

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Scope of variables

All the variables that we intend to use in a program must have been declared with its type specifier in an earlier point in the code, like we did in the previous code at the beginning of the body of the function main when we declared that a, b, and result were of type int.

A variable can be either of global or local scope. A global variable is a variable declared in the main body of the source code, outside all functions, while a local variable is one declared within the body of a function or a block.

Global variables can be referred from anywhere in the code, even inside functions, whenever it is after its declaration.

The scope of local variables is limited to the block enclosed in braces ({}) where they are declared. For example, if they are declared at the beginning of the body of a function (like in function main) their scope is between its declaration point and the end of that function. In the example above, this means that if another function existed in addition to main, the local variables declared in main could not be accessed from the other function and vice versa.

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