How is it possible that someone could imagine religion without political ties,...?
I mean honestly,...think about what it takes to bring people together,...?
I'll go out on a limb and ask what would it take for you and your neighbors to get together and have a pow wow? if you live in a nice 2-car garage, neighborhood-watch community only a series of robberies or a socially awkward family moving in might cause a stir but for most of us nothing short of a trainwreck in the night will bring us all together
that is unless religion is involved.
religion is a perfect call to arms,...even if i am cool with you as a person when the battle lines are drawn and ultimately you are on one side and i'm on the other strictly based on what you are born (ethinically and socially) into,... logic goes out the window and your loyalty and more importantly your familial ties usually wins. that's what blows my mind about how religion is used in this day and age, its not like in the past where most people didn't have access to a line of history (the history channel) to see what happens when people use nationalism or religion as a banner to rally around,... i mean come ON?!
i understand how important having a ritual is in your life for so many people, i get it-its a gravitational pull it keeps you centered it gives you focus ok fine, but when that pull is LITERALLY pulling people in these ridiculous directions based on political opportunism and by opportunism i mean if i use the word joe blow i'm going to be connecting more with this demographic than i would if i said joe merlot,...
bottom line what frustrates me is that religion is what it is,...it helps people get by
ok, i have absolutely no problem with that
what i DO have a problem with is when "the way i get by" becomes LAW for everyone there is something totally fucked about believing you have all the right answers,...you've gotta ask yourself if you do believe in a higher power don't you think that's pretty fuckin' vain to assume you can tap into what it is that made all this possible? i mean talk about naive, you think that the power that made set the forces in motion to spin universes into existence gives a fuck about your ability to play chop sticks?
but that's ultimately what it comes down to,...a few salesman looking to sell you something you don't need, so they have to convince you that you are missing what they are selling (salvation from a manmade doomsday) and they've got the only solution
boy sounds like a bad infomercial
anyway,...i'm just talkin'
maybe there is some magical dude waiting for me to take his/her/its name in vain and then i'll get a good ol' fashion smoting
BLADOW
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