collectively, we are all broken, just a bit more by the news, Whether it is the 2,000 in Nigeria or the 34 in France, we have lost some of our brethren this week. The same feelings of love for our children and hope for the future were alive and well in these people just a week ago, yet today their hearts are still, their eyes got milky and they began to rot. The living of life they did, the love and appreciation others felt for them will be no more, just a memory. The creative talents, interests and ideas will go away forever, no longer pursued. It is with heart felt empathy for the great loss humanity sustained this week that I say. Attacks on one attack us all.
Whatever abuse and neglect the perpetrators have suffered, we must heal their tortured souls. There needs to be a place where true rehabilitation can occur before people start thinking that taking life has any positive elements. No one "deserves" to die, no matter what you may think of them. I routinely say out loud that I believe Jesus was a myth, just like Tom Sawyer and Paul Bunyan. I have criticized Popes as being responsible for giving shelter and employment to pedophiles. I frequently deny all claims of power given to male deities on the basis of how badly men have screwed everything up. I openly mock and caricature many individuals and groups, not because I want them to die, but because I have something funny to relate and the people onstage in my stories are characters, nothing more.
The terrible thing about all fundamentalist religions is that they restrict the education of their young, and allowing religious leaders to determine the narrative of their sacred texts. Uneducated people will believe whatever their shamen tell them and this breeds an interpretation that keeps them in charge and all others subservient to the "wise men". Ah, there's that misogyny again. It is easier to see the need for "radicalization" when you understand the context. There are millions of people worldwide who are feeling disenfranchised, put upon and unjustly suffering at the hands of the oligarchs. Some tiny percentage will allow themselves to be told what to think about that and how to react to capitalism, U.S. militarism and the threats we all see going on in our homeland. A few agents provocateur or with a loud mouth to shoot off in the name of violence and religion and a tiny percentage feel compelled to follow. After all, the knowledgeable people who claim to "know" the religion can justify the most heinous of behaviors.
Religion gives cover to the lawless amongst us and it is time to tell the truth about the vile impact it is having on humanity, our worldwide culture has been rent asunder by these fundamentalist, groups. The twisted nature of some allow them to justify all manner of horror because it is their "God-given right" this alone should tell us that they are delusional. The Earth Religions are on the rise because we know intuitively that a system ruled by women would be much, much saner, equitable and compassionate. That is why the glass ceiling exists for women, the rich, mostly white old men would feel threatened if peace broke out amongst nations or is things were made to suddenly make sense.
I am so glad to have billions of people learn of Charlie Hedbo, hundreds of millions see the work that those people had done, and to further the building of worldwide sentiment against those who would do this sort of thing.
Whatever abuse and neglect the perpetrators have suffered, we must heal their tortured souls. There needs to be a place where true rehabilitation can occur before people start thinking that taking life has any positive elements. No one "deserves" to die, no matter what you may think of them. I routinely say out loud that I believe Jesus was a myth, just like Tom Sawyer and Paul Bunyan. I have criticized Popes as being responsible for giving shelter and employment to pedophiles. I frequently deny all claims of power given to male deities on the basis of how badly men have screwed everything up. I openly mock and caricature many individuals and groups, not because I want them to die, but because I have something funny to relate and the people onstage in my stories are characters, nothing more.
The terrible thing about all fundamentalist religions is that they restrict the education of their young, and allowing religious leaders to determine the narrative of their sacred texts. Uneducated people will believe whatever their shamen tell them and this breeds an interpretation that keeps them in charge and all others subservient to the "wise men". Ah, there's that misogyny again. It is easier to see the need for "radicalization" when you understand the context. There are millions of people worldwide who are feeling disenfranchised, put upon and unjustly suffering at the hands of the oligarchs. Some tiny percentage will allow themselves to be told what to think about that and how to react to capitalism, U.S. militarism and the threats we all see going on in our homeland. A few agents provocateur or with a loud mouth to shoot off in the name of violence and religion and a tiny percentage feel compelled to follow. After all, the knowledgeable people who claim to "know" the religion can justify the most heinous of behaviors.
Religion gives cover to the lawless amongst us and it is time to tell the truth about the vile impact it is having on humanity, our worldwide culture has been rent asunder by these fundamentalist, groups. The twisted nature of some allow them to justify all manner of horror because it is their "God-given right" this alone should tell us that they are delusional. The Earth Religions are on the rise because we know intuitively that a system ruled by women would be much, much saner, equitable and compassionate. That is why the glass ceiling exists for women, the rich, mostly white old men would feel threatened if peace broke out amongst nations or is things were made to suddenly make sense.
I am so glad to have billions of people learn of Charlie Hedbo, hundreds of millions see the work that those people had done, and to further the building of worldwide sentiment against those who would do this sort of thing.
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