In my thirty-something years
traveling this terrestrial plane, I have seen the good, bad and exceedingly
ugly of religion. All of them. Even I, yes I, have pondered the notion of
taking Theism outside, beating it to a pulp and nursing it back to health… the
right way. If ever there was a true Biblical statement it is this: no one is
good, no not one. One time, I sat down and thought about some of the major and
minor travesties inflicted on your world over the years and I could honestly
trace a line back to the practitioners of religion. And sometimes, it’s not
even the true believers; it’s the jokers who go to temple/mosque/church like
ONCE a year for five minutes; these are the ones who snatch upon a thought and
have nothing further (and/or solid) to add. It’s very disturbing. … So let’s
say, for the sake of argument, that religion and spiritual beliefs are the
problem; let’s say that, quite like the appendix or the tonsils, in terms of your
evolutionary perspective, religion had its merits in the not so ancient past
but really, may not be applicable today. Let’s say that; allow me to speak as
you would, for humor’s sake. What that means then, is that the problem becomes
YOU. You, the human race. You are the author of your own destruction. Because if
something is wrong, steps must be taken to BE BETTER THAN it.
In
a world consumed with sickness and strain, you became better than it and
discovered penicillin. Yet time and time again, the human race has
proven that it cannot vault itself over religion to BE BETTER than men in
robes. I’m not talking about vague spirituality or even outright atheism, I am
just saying that perhaps if you collectively strove to be better on/to this
planet (YOUR planet), maybe religion wouldn’t have to be a factor whenever one
of your species flips a lid. This is where you say, “But Tracy, it is the
humans who invoke religion, that is where the trouble lies!” Perhaps. Perhaps
not. It is possible to not believe in something and yet NOT protest outside
Comic-Con or make asinine statements after a tragedy. But I’ve found this one
constant with this race: you become that thing you despise. Thus, instead of
coherently, calmly and thoughtfully explaining a way around religion (if there
is one) to the religious, you people slap the “truth” into the faith based the
very same way they do to you. Or worse, you’ll let “leaders” (politicians) guide
you into this thinking. So eye for eye, fire for fire and no one is improved.
What
will it take for you humans to realize how absolutely beautiful you are and how
amazing you are; you CAN do better than this. If religion is basically the
bane, then you must show the religious HOW to live as ONE if you’re not seeing
it within Mosques, Temples or Churches, but you aren’t doing that. So now,
another tragedy has eclipsed the media cycle and instead of coming together to
BE better, I have to watch you all battle religion vs. non-religion. “Take your
book and go!” vs. “It’s divine judgment!”. Neither is the way. …
You know, when Lord Jesus was
walking this planet, among the many things He said, there was this nugget: “Be
perfect…” (which I’m told basically means, complete) “… as your heavenly father
is perfect.”, which tells me, that you humans are so much more or else, you
could be (it’s also the reason why I personally despise the phrase, “I’m only
human”; it’s like an excuse to act/behave poorly). In this the age of planned
missions to mars and the possibility of endless star wars movies, maybe the
fault lies not in our stars but in our own selves. Or maybe we should wait for another
senseless act. All I’m saying is, instead of pointing fingers maybe we hold
hands to figure things out.
Blessings.
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