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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Upright

We are not obligated

to live by anyone else's

'moral standards'...

we are obligated

merely to survive

(and secondarily, to be

the best person we can be.)

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"Altho it's been said, many times, many ways...."

What the Fuckwas this show doing on The History Channel!?!?!

Shoulda been on Sy-Fy at the very least.

Are they sure they don't want to make

some more revisions before they show it again?

Or come up with a new tag line?

"Most fantastically absurd story ever told...
(emphasis on 'told!'")

"The most heavily edited story ever rewritten."

"Featuring swipes from most every religion and

secular source in the known world!"

"You will believe a world religion can dominate

common sense and reality!"

And let's not pretend the 'Devil' looking like

the President was any kind of mix-up or oversight.

Burnett and his wife are part of the same nut ball

Tea-Party hardcore right-wing Republican gang

of conservative thugs that hold to all the abnormal

prefixes of said same; anti-gay, anti-choice, Obama

conspiratists, etc.--Hell, they even promote forced

teaching of The Bible in public schools!

I love how these folks produce a flowery, kind-

hearted epic like this to put a smiley-spin on the

story, and to distract from the fact that the gist

of the actual teachings bears nothing in common

to the strident and demanding sycophants that

dominate these for-profit organizations seeking

to control people and politics.

Given the ratings for this crap fest, I guess

America's still in decline in terms of intellect

and critical thinking. Desperate times produce

desperate actions. Guess that's what the backers

were planning on the whole time.

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Revelations

We don't care about your religious beliefs

because you don't care about the heartbreak

of kids and adults in your congregation who

have suffered and even killed themselves

based on your condemnations, your malicious

counsel, your dismissals, and your hardened hearts.

So clean your own house before you worry

about what's in ours.

And get a tougher skin; if you can't take it,

you sure as hell shouldn't be dishing it out.

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