Sunday, December 11, 2016
In Addition to Yesterday
In addition to yesterday's post I have to add this as another reason that we definitely need to outgrow this adherence to Bronze and Iron age mythologies. I just read Cadillac Cancels Neo-Nazi Ad After Online Outrage. I find it so hard to believe that Nazism still exists as we know about the horrendous cruelty committed by them three-quarters of a century ago. This insanity is rooted in Christianity as some believe contemporary Jews are still guilty of what may have happened two thousand years ago. The Romans crucified Jesus (well they did if he existed at all) but because they wanted this belief system to spread in the Roman empire they made the Romans appear to have been manipulated into doing this by the Jews therefore it was the Jews who were guilty of killing Jesus. I truly find it hard to comprehend that this insanity still exists *sigh*
Saturday, December 10, 2016
It is Time to Grow Up
Around the time of my last post members of the Gross Old Party began to attempt to become the 2016 candidate for president. This kept me preoccupied and now depressed as Mr Deplorable, of all people, is becoming our president *sigh*
I truly believe it is time to put away childish things such as the belief in those Bronze and Iron age mythologies which lie at the heart of all the craziness that is happening. The fundies, who are true hypocrites, use parts of that anthology of mythologies to be cruel and nasty to people who are not straight, white Christian males.
For example they use it to dislike gays (I don't think transgenders are even discussed in it). Homosexuality is mentioned a mere half dozen times in that anthology of mythologies and isn't even mentioned in those 10 Commandments they keep trying to force on us. Adultery however is mentioned hundreds of times and there is a commandment against it. If the religious claim they cannot serve homosexuals because it's against their belief system then they must also not serve adulterers especially as it seems this deity is far more concerned with adultery than with homosexuality (and they certainly shouldn't make one president). Adultery is a choice; homosexuality is not.
They also use it to control women. They allude that women should be subservient and do nothing but make babies, especially white women so that white people will not simply become another minority in a few decades. They plan to do away with abortion and birth control to make that happen. Such hypocrisy. IIRC god said nothing about abortion in that anthology of mythologies. In fact if a pregnant woman was attacked and miscarried the attacker was only fined; if she died it was a life for a life. Elsewhere god's priests gave pregnant women accused of adultery something to drink; if she miscarried she was guilty therefore god's priests gave women abortifacients. To claim god is against abortion fundies often refer to one of those 10 commandments that states "thou shalt not kill" but soon after he gave the commandments to Moses he ordered his followers to slaughter whole towns. This makes him a highly immoral, hypocritical deity.
Finally they claim the anthology reveals that blacks are descendants of Ham and cursed and therefore they are inferior and god meant for them to be the servants of white people. Slavery was condoned in both the old and the new testaments. I often thought if this god had been truly a superior being, instead of making a commandment about coveting a neighbor's wife or ass or ... he should have said 5 simple words "thou shalt not enslave others". Think how unique it would have made the Israelis millennia ago and over the centuries it would have spared the lives of millions of people and spared them the horrors and sadism of slavery. It certainly hints that man made god in his own image.
Oh yes one last thing. Over the past few decades Calvinism has crept into various Christian sects. It declares that if god loves someone he will make them wealthy with the implication that if he doesn't, he punishes them by making them poor. This is why fundies tend to love people of the 1% and strive to please them so maybe they can become wealthy and loved by god too when in actuality this is very much against Jesus as he said if you wanted to follow him you had to give up your worldly goods and he cared about the poor and the outcasts and not the upper crust of his era.
We in the beginning of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium and we are over 50 years into the Space Age and it is time to grow up and become mature and decent people who will take responsibility for what is happening to fellow beings and our planet but will that ever happen?
I truly believe it is time to put away childish things such as the belief in those Bronze and Iron age mythologies which lie at the heart of all the craziness that is happening. The fundies, who are true hypocrites, use parts of that anthology of mythologies to be cruel and nasty to people who are not straight, white Christian males.
For example they use it to dislike gays (I don't think transgenders are even discussed in it). Homosexuality is mentioned a mere half dozen times in that anthology of mythologies and isn't even mentioned in those 10 Commandments they keep trying to force on us. Adultery however is mentioned hundreds of times and there is a commandment against it. If the religious claim they cannot serve homosexuals because it's against their belief system then they must also not serve adulterers especially as it seems this deity is far more concerned with adultery than with homosexuality (and they certainly shouldn't make one president). Adultery is a choice; homosexuality is not.
They also use it to control women. They allude that women should be subservient and do nothing but make babies, especially white women so that white people will not simply become another minority in a few decades. They plan to do away with abortion and birth control to make that happen. Such hypocrisy. IIRC god said nothing about abortion in that anthology of mythologies. In fact if a pregnant woman was attacked and miscarried the attacker was only fined; if she died it was a life for a life. Elsewhere god's priests gave pregnant women accused of adultery something to drink; if she miscarried she was guilty therefore god's priests gave women abortifacients. To claim god is against abortion fundies often refer to one of those 10 commandments that states "thou shalt not kill" but soon after he gave the commandments to Moses he ordered his followers to slaughter whole towns. This makes him a highly immoral, hypocritical deity.
Finally they claim the anthology reveals that blacks are descendants of Ham and cursed and therefore they are inferior and god meant for them to be the servants of white people. Slavery was condoned in both the old and the new testaments. I often thought if this god had been truly a superior being, instead of making a commandment about coveting a neighbor's wife or ass or ... he should have said 5 simple words "thou shalt not enslave others". Think how unique it would have made the Israelis millennia ago and over the centuries it would have spared the lives of millions of people and spared them the horrors and sadism of slavery. It certainly hints that man made god in his own image.
Oh yes one last thing. Over the past few decades Calvinism has crept into various Christian sects. It declares that if god loves someone he will make them wealthy with the implication that if he doesn't, he punishes them by making them poor. This is why fundies tend to love people of the 1% and strive to please them so maybe they can become wealthy and loved by god too when in actuality this is very much against Jesus as he said if you wanted to follow him you had to give up your worldly goods and he cared about the poor and the outcasts and not the upper crust of his era.
We in the beginning of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium and we are over 50 years into the Space Age and it is time to grow up and become mature and decent people who will take responsibility for what is happening to fellow beings and our planet but will that ever happen?
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