…That religion can be evil?
The United States is in the heat, and the final stretch of a very trying part of our history. It is a chapter that could spell a change for the better or more of the same in a slow, but quickly speeding up downward spiral of a once very strong and solid nation.
Negative? Yes, I know. I am a man of solutions and of positive energy and I hope to move back into a ZEN mode once this election is complete and the hatred being spewed is less obvious. I am not naive enough to believe that it will disappear or that any potential success we accomplish may not be “appealed” or further fought with the division we have all been witnessing out in the open for weeks and weeks.
There is the obvious: Why is Sarah Palin receiving any support at all? She is hardcore Religious right and holds the extreme beliefs that many in the lunatic fringe want in the White House. She is there because she is Christian only.
In California we are experiencing a fight for a proposition that would remove the right of a gay couple to be married. This right is on the books and is legal. Religious groups across the country want to see this right removed. They are calling the proposition and the California law (as well as this proposition to retain it) “Armageddon”. There are donations coming from everywhere around this country. They claim it would spell the “end of traditional marriage.”
Why? How is it that traditional marriage would be threatened? Why is it that ANY man or woman… family or child… would be threatened by a gay couple having the same right under the law as a straight one? What is this fear all about? Why is religion becoming more hateful than anything I’ve ever known?
Why do people insist that everyone be and think as they do? Where does this narcissistic arrogance come from?
I do not condemn religion NOR do I judge what people think or fear. I don’t want to tell people what to believe. But whatever I am, do, think or believe in my life does not need to be shared by them or by anyone else. I am not here to dictate what another humans rights can or should be. Why is it that they feel they have that right.
They are selling this as a threat because marriage will be taught in schools and children shouldn’t be taught that gay couples can marry. Is this really an issue? Does this really happen? Would a child be hurt by this if it did? Since when is marriage a part of any curriculum anyway?
Yes, I’ll be very happy when this week is over and the elections are done. I’ll be glad to see SOME form of normalcy returning to lives. But it will be a rough memory to know that people out there are as evil as they are. There are no morals in morality. Religion in and of itself could use a massive dose of confession and a cold hard inventory to restore what it is meant to be.
Going to hell? We are most definitely there.