Religion

In a city where caning and stoning are still acceptable forms of punishment, a law forbidding pants should come as no surprise to the residents. Those found guilty of committing adultery are liable to be stoned to death, and homosexuals can find themselves serving long jail sentences or being publicly lashed for their sexual orientation. These barbaric practices are just the tip of the iceberg in a place where kissing in public, drinking, and gambling are also strictly forbidden and strictly enforced. Most recently, Aceh, a strict Muslim city in Indonesia, enacted a “Tight Pants Ban,” forbidding any woman from wearing pants in the city. This is all part of a new ban to forbid the wearing of revealing clothing, partnering with a previously enacted law requiring women to wear headscarves in public.

I have never believed in god, and I never will.
 
Most people do not believe me when I say this. They try to insist that I will eventually see the light or find my faith or feel the presence or their own personal melodramatic euphemism of choice, but I am confident in my opinion. One that I did not reach without education or independent thought.