My Favorite Disdain

I have noticed lately that I have become disdainful for so many things. The older I get the wiser and if wisdom denotes disdain or begets it, then I am bearing the sin and curse of a legacy upon my shoulders. As of recent I have noticed that one true fact rises to the cream of the matter in that I have a severe utter unhappiness with religion these days. The funny things is I am a devout agnostic believer who preaches day in and day out to her child and others' about respect for the gods that be. Only I see all around us what trouble believing has caused and what wars have stemmed from a difference in point of view and cannot help but wonder how the world would be had she been a purely scientific entity.

Far be it from me to offend any one people's god(s)in particular on the concept of existence and beginnings, it just escapes me that if we were created in their own image, as is implied by most all religions and knowing how difficult it is for some to keep track of their own day let alone another's, than how is it that one supreme power or a collective of supreme powers can keep track of every living thing that is here whether man, beast or child? I dream of the same things you all do of peace and love and a perfect nirvana that just doesn't exist. I have had problems eating the religion that has been served and liking it and preferred to find my own examples of divinity. No one religion is any more impressive in my book and I believe that if there truly IS an awe inspiring deity or deitious body out there, then they are so spectacular that they don't have the necessity to be in the scheme of having a name. "They" don't answer to us so whatever tool or moniker of respect we have in our own native tongues is how "they" must be addressed.

I was watching television and noticed all the advertisements for religion that exist. Not just the "let's go to my church" fare but the stuff that exploits religion to send a message and get the sheep to the pen of whatever it is they are selling. And how about them sheep, huh? Interesting choice of analogy to use, the only thing worse would be a lemming. Let's all follow the herd blindly and not think for ourselves and challenge authority and invent something spectacular and become what destiny had intended for us to become. My thoughts on religion are unfounded and in some part based upon speculation considering the amateur investigations into historical pasts that left a bad taste in my mouth. For the most part the earth was spattered with several hundreds of different but similar multi-theist religions until the advent of what we call "civilization" when at some point, some lazy bastard claiming superiority declared that his wizards and alchemists of science could speak to the beyond and and the spirits contained therein. In truth these royal liars wanted a means to impose upon the masses and exploit their virtue in service to the regal household. Chieftains, tribal rulers and elders long before the advent of "civilized man" were responsible for the passing of myth and deity-related tales of heroism and gifted endowment. It was a tool to encourage youth and also as a guideline for life. But this civilization's birth has beget one supreme being in it's pride and made all other kneel in fealty to it and "do" as it's bidding was handed down.

We aren't sheep or lemmings. We weren't made to serve others as slaves or to flock together. It would be hard for them to fathom that the image we were made into was one of complete servitude to another sentient being. Why would someone want to create that existence for others? So when I see these wars and laws and decrees handed out and know that it is the lay person who was persuaded to fight and donate goods to a cause that they reap no benefit from, it gets me extremely mad. Aren't we made after "self-serving" intelligent beings? Shouldn't we then become creators of a place to be proud of not demolishers and destructors of all that has been created? And then my eyes pop open at the two o'clock hour and I hear that if I want to flock with more "Christian" people like me and build a sexual and personal relationship that I should start it with the Pope in mind, with someone stupid enough to take him into consideration as a deal-breaker if I don't kiss his ring? And I know of many of them, dated them, bed them and left them in their ignorance.

Most all religion has taught us that we have free will so long as it coincides with the will of another who has no right to exact his/her will upon me if I had free will to begin with! The beginning of this nonsense was so very long ago and it seems along the way humans have given up their free will for the comfy false sense of security that comes with expectations of a power of mythos to intervene on their unlucky behalves. The problem with this is when several people or groups of people become overwhelmed and feel abandoned by this resolve or worse, feel like they are undeserving though have no sin or provocation, they have no one to turn to and have lost all sense of selves as they watch the more undeserving get "ahead" and leave them behind with the label attached to their forehead that they aren't "chosen" or special or blessed. They did nothing to be shunned but are just the same. It doesn't make sense and it controls people into a flock of sheep and a herd to do as the rest would do or suffer some later consequences that may or may not exist. It is the blind leading the blind and the few select privileged dictating and orchestrating who benefits and who don't. And I assure you, if you aren't providing a service to propel that supreme power or force or collective group of selected "deserving" forward then you most certainly not only do not benefit, but you will be punished in the here and now.

"These" days need to be put past and people need to stop looking for a short cut way to some afterlife salvation and excuse their poor behaviors as the "devil's actions" and not their own. We need to be responsible for global warming, war, loss of life, extinction of certain species of man (including the near extinction of my own breed which though different but full of value especially in a time of apocalypse and the future dark turn of events that scientists expect to unfold) and the annihilation of fossil fuels and resources that cannot be replaced in our day or in a timely manner. Life is special and precious and we use religion as a means to fight and take it away and invoke fear when any god(s) that exists having created you and I in their own images wouldn't make us to war, but to propel them and their image forward and branch out and spread life and a message of intelligence and superiority. If the Star Ship Enterprise did exist and came across this planet with its war and death and famine and self-abuse of its top species, it would leave post haste and never look back. Stop behaving like children with a new ball and a faeri tale and lies to make yourselves more important and start behaving like responsible adults and ensure that there WILL be an Earth for millenia to come as we grow and promote prosperity for all. ~mobe's love to her all and her all to her loves.