So, let's talk about religion. No, maybe not. I'm not going to give you a Sunday sermon. I'm not going to preach to the choir. I'm not going to preach. I'm not religious. I'm not religious nor do I really consider myself a Christian. So there's that. I'm also not a fertility right worshiping pagan in the sense of ancient Europe. I suppose I believe there is spirituality to the world and that there are things out there that we can't imagine. But, I do not really believe that we are inherently evil or that there was an original sin, committed by a woman. I pretty much have to go on and say that I think that natural selection is a great idea. I think we are made out of the universe, we are star dust.
So we eat. See, ham, and eggs. But in some ways the cynical side of myself says for many people Easter is buying new clothes and going to church, spending money on your kids and leaving them baskets of candy and junk that they don't need, but expect. I started buying Easter baskets for my kids a few years ago with one toy in them. But, I guess I'm cynical in the world of social media and Facebook everyone posts what they get their kids. I guess Xbox live points aren't the cutest thing to photograph. So this is your secular Easter post. No posting of absolute faith and devotion here. I don't know where I will go when I die, but if there is no after life and I'm just dead, will it matter? Will it matter if I'm just gone? I will not be existing, my voice will be gone. It wouldn't matter to me now, would it?
Photo above is my Puppy Yumi meeting Jack. Jack is younger than Yumi. Back to religion, I don't believe that if you are a Christian and go to church that you're a better person than anyone else on the planet. I don't believe that I'm better than you or you me. I believe in rational thought and when I struggle to rationalize something, I cannot blindly believe. I do have a deep sense of faith in that I believe everything happens for a reason. I hope it happens for a reason, because if it doesn't there are so many more questions. I don't believe that all people are inherently "sinners." I don't believe that you are bad, I don't believe that I am bad. I believe that I am. I am me, I am here, I feel, think, live, exist and refuse to feel guilty for my existence.
I don't believe in dogma and doctrine with a blind faith. I believe all of our history is wrapped up within the written word of man. I believe that our society was shaped greatly by not just Christianity but by "pagan" holidays. I believe that the "pagan" holidays so to speak are wrapped up in the earth and agriculture. I question why so many blindly believe what they are told. Just like the History channel's show the Bible. Which is a TV show, a director's interpretation.
I don't have a lot of faith in humanity. I sit and watch people react in a reactionary manner to all sorts of news shows. They obsess and use their arm chair activism to post and post and post pictures on Facebook of all that they find wrong in the world. They stand up for what they believe in, but only online. Their voices scream loudly against government, and policy that they are too weak to change.
Do I believe religion and spirituality should naturally rest within the realm of nature? Yes, because that is where I go to find peace with myself. Not in a church where it is a constant contradition of someone telling me that I'm inherently bad and need forgiven, or that I'm good because I go there with all the other people trying to be good to earn themselves a spot in heaven.
My voice, my beliefs do not have to agree with yours. I am so incredibly tired of hearing the gay marriage/gun control debate. I support rational beliefs and I believe part of the political problem in this country is we have two groups who are essentially against big govt. corporatism and this debate over who is responsible for what gets in the way, while both sides are irrational about their own soap box topics neither will agree to see eye to eye on what the real problem is.
So this is my "how to lose friends and alienate people," Easter 2013 edition. I believe I'm old enough not to believe I have to please people with my view points. No, I'm sorry my opinion of myself will not change just because yours does.
It is a beautiful to see the earth come to life. But if you actually spend time outside in nature with the earth you will find the beauty in all seasons. The earthiness of winter, the sweet smell of spring with the world waking up and coming to life.
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