Last night I heard about the news in New Zealand - the terror attack on two mosques. I feel compelled to write something about love winning, but I have so much anger against the people who hate SO much that they'll kill. Like the incels, and the white supremacists. It almost seems ironic to push love for fellow man when I am so not in love with my fellow man. I'm frankly, a little sick of my fellow man.
I grew up in a very religious household. It was unhealthy. At times it was abusive. I tried asking questions, from time to time, to make this whole 'God' thing make sense, and the only answers I ever received from my father were 'because God said so', and 'Because I said so'. If I ever was a believer, if was brief. My father used his religion as justification of his deep Islamophobia, his homophobia, his misogyny, his racism. We don't speak anymore. I don't have the ability to deal with all of his hatred. It makes me hate him, and then I feel almost hypocritical in a way.
I've met so many people who have the opposite mentality, with religion. They use it as a platform for love. The fundamental rules of all faiths are very similar, as I've seen. Be nice. Get along. Don't hurt other people. Don't steal. Help when you can. And so on. They had to develop that way, because religion was the foundation of law in society. Without ground rules, people stop working together, and the whole thing falls apart, leaving you vulnerable to nature.
So, what I'm trying to say is that I'm not fundamentally anti-religion. I think some people abuse it, and those people are the ones we see on TV. I'm truly heart-sick that somebody, or somebodies used other peoples' faith as an excuse to murder them last night.
I don't know if my thoughts are coming out in a cogent way right now. I feel like I have 50 people cradled in the bags under my eyes this morning.
Be good, humans. Be good to each other. Take time to talk to an astronaut, and see what they have to say about this rock from above. It's one unit.
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Well articulated Rachel. I would add a quote to support your post.
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Thanks @giddyupngo. I hadn't seen that quote before. :)
Beautiful painting Rachel and sad indeed :( I think it's important as artists to express both the beauty and sadness, I included this post in my weekly curation Ocean of Art
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Hi @rachelsvparry, I agree with you 100%, and I've upvoted this post 100%.
I am a believer in GOD, a central creator, but NO religion accurately
Encapsulates that essence, but they all have echoes of the origin.
In fact, I think I will resteem this post as well. My #originalcontent
Posts are almost always about brotherhood, and love each other
And equality.
Thanks @jerrytsuseer. I think all belief structures are tools for us. All tools can be used to do great things, or terrible things. I'm glad to see people use them for good.
Also, very nice to make your acquaintance. :)
(I've tried twice to upvote this comment, but for some reason I had to log in to Busy three times to get it to stick)
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