Pick and Choose

Whatever happened to the 'immorality'

of piousness...

and judgementalness...

and ego...

and hypocrisy?

I guess those admonitions got lost

somewhere in the umpteen translations.

Or, more likely...

the reality that religion is all just headgames

and make believe doesn't cover up the idea

of 'spiritual transformation' being malarkey...

and human beings would far rather create

misery for another

than give up their own vices.

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The Process

Life is dark and insane and wretched,

with chaos reigning and hardships constant...

so some people have booze and drugs

to help them through the rough patches,

others become absorbed in their work,

some screw their brains out to medicate,

and others eat away their pain.

But some feel the need to impose a

fictional system over the barbs of fluctuation

and meaninglessness.

They subscribe to amazing tales and superstitious

applications of faulty reasoning to concoct a

method and pattern and 'plan' where none exists.

This gives them a sense of comfort, the idea

of making sense of the senseless, and then they

are sated...for a time.

But then others seek to address the reality

of random death and cruel fates and wanton

violence....and that seems to undermine the

pretense of calm that those dedicated to the

fabrication have constructed.

And thus the battle begins.

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The Truth Shall Set You Free!

There's a big difference between being calmed

by the concept of religion and being made compliant

or complicit by it.

The church teaches demurity and selflessness so

that they can more easily sway folks and get away

with their personal evils. (Saying you're spiritual and

chaste is far different from actually practicing it.)

'Submissiveness' is not a spiritual path, but rather

a means of furthering the hierarchy.

Your humility is for the benefit of the institution,

not the individual.

It's not coincidence that the wealthy, the powerful,

and the male created religion as a means of keeping

radicals, the poor, women, gays, slaves, and others

from questioning the injustice, the hardship, the

inhumanity of conditions in this world.

And some things never change.

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