Friday, February 17, 2006

Your Savor, Messiah and God doesn't need you to Kill for your God.

Seems bizarrely and sickeningly strange that humanity has become increasingly very impatient, very righteous, arrogant and ignorant people in the religious world. Clearly, any higher being (whether a omni-present Messiah, semi-god or full god) would be able to deal with believers and non-believers alike in a suitable fashion according to that higher being's ideals and rules. That suitable fashion is what was called the after life and doesn't require or make use of any of humanity's input on the subject. Your god will do as your god wishes, no matter what you feel, think or do.

Some people require "heaven's retribution" on earth today, now. Calling for or actively enacting religious violence upon the ignorant, the knowledgeable or the insensitivity is to completely discount the concept of your chosen god or high being. I mean, "god can kill it's own children". Why would god need it's arrogant, small minded children to kill on it's behalf? Seems exceedingly righteous to profess to know the thoughts and feelings of any god, much less to incite or commit violent action in your god's name.

Additionally, it is ignorant presumption to kill or inspire violence for religious reasons. Very few if any of the core religions of humanity call for direct and complete subjugation or outright massacre of non-believers, heretics or those that have created an opportunity for insult. Those concepts are born only of the past of tradition. The traditions of religious violence is archaic and should be left in the distant past. Killing for your god or faith is to discredit your faith, not exalt it. Humanity must be willing to start with forgiveness the past and have patience with the present if we are to create a powerful future of all of humanity's faiths.

So, if you are sharpening your blade to take another head of a tourist, reloading another magazine into your rifle to snipe at another country's troops, wiring another bomb to kill anyone ( discriminate or indiscriminately), or booking tickets to find a Danish satirist for offenses against your chosen god, maybe you should take a long moment to reflect on the larger views of your faith: Your god doesn't need you to kill or incite violence for or in your god's name. Your god can handle that well enough without a your messy little hands killing your fellow man.

Were I to be to presume what my god thinks and feels, I'd report that my god is sickened by the violence done in his and other god's names and awaits humanities return to the paths of peace. But I don't speak for my god; he's perfectly capible for speaking and action for himself. So instead I will speak for myself: your stupidity makes me very angry.

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