Of Ism's, Beliefs and Asinine Challenges

Current mood: productive

I really don't post (often) my opinions about religion or politics on FB - mostly because it isn't a great debate forum.  It's like a short fuse over there and not so much a place for deep thinking... however I will make this public over here for anyone who would like to read it.

There are a LOT of "ism's" floating about these days. Aside the "mainstream ism's" there are some I have never even heard of and I am pretty sure, didn't exist when I was growing up. Here is a list of just the ism's Wikipedia goes into and while extensive, I think they forgot Gary the God of Tabasco and Cheese Doodles.

I digress...

There are countless beliefs and philosophies and creeds and yadda yadda yadda's and the one thing they all manage to have in common is: NONE OF THEM agree with the others about anything except that they all are pretty damn sure they are the right path to god and everyone else is wrong.

There is so much argued "in the name of," that I find it hard to believe that any of them get much done in the way of "loving kindness and worship." In fact, with all the screaming matches of "my god is way better then your god," and all the challenges to FILL IN THE BLANK BELIEF, I must draw the conclusion that religion today is nothing more then a name in which to draw up your sword of self-righteousness and tell other people to piss off because you know nothing.

Just cruising the top blogs in the "Religion/Philo," category gets you some gems with titles like, "Challenge to Athiests," and "Why are Christians so Stupid?" Each of the represented beliefs has a challenge to the others to explain it to them, why they are the way they are and why don't they see how blind they are and they obviously don't see they are going to burn in hell because they are not them. Dizzy?

What it seemingly amounts to is this:

Well, guess what? STOP IT. If each of those blog authors would actually stop for a moment and read what it is they are supposed to believe, I think they would see something like, "Love Thy Neighbor," or a Golden Rule philosophy.

Instead, we get the hateful doggerel of uniformed, closed-minded, hateful and or scared individuals, who lump together under a banner "ism," and condemn others to a hell they made up to feel superior.

So here is a "challenge" to all of you out there who seem to think you have some vital bit of information that will keep me from burning in hell. Stop trying to condemn others who do not follow the same primrose path you do.



And DO NOT challenge people to prove to you why their belief is worthy. Don't tell me us we going to hell or are on the wrong path. Don't ask us to explain to you why we think we are right or saved. All you need to know is that if you do, you should be bitch slapped all over the Universe.



Remove the damn mote from your own eyes first before setting out thinking you have some gifted superiority to remove motes from everyone else. You don't.




~C