the question remains:

who gets to decide?

half-witted lawmakers
pawns of industry?
pedophile priests
hiding behind the bible?
the man with the biggest gun?

spiritual anarchy

authoritarian rule demands an absolute truth, an ultimate God from which to derive your power. without it, your laws are meaningless. why should anyone obey the word of somebody else's god? you must first beat them into submission if you want to rule. my personal spiritual/religious experiences don't jive with other people's religions. you don't get to tell me what to think, i've had these experiences that make it more real to me than any bible verse ever written. it is a subjective truth more meaningful than any objective doctrine ever possibly could be. to me, religion is a piss poor substitute for the real connection with what i would call divine for lack of any better way of describing it. in fact, i believe that religion was invented by those who sought the power to rule, to create a disconnect. because if your role is to decide, you can't be having people going around listening to their own conscience. and if your role is to wage war, you can't be having people going around deciding for themselves what to do..

if god were a mother

if god were a mother...

there would be plenty of room
in her heart for all of her children
she wouldn't need to play favorites
because love doesn't work that way

(silly rabbit, control freaky head games are for humans)

but wait! there's more...

doesn't jesus love everyone?
like, no matter what?
then how can there be a chosen people?

...and if there is no chosen people
placed by god's authority above the rest
then what?

...then what?
then jesus isn't the chosen one
(but we already knew that
because the prophecy said
the messiah brings peace)
and if jesus isn't the chosen one
where does that leave us?

...anyway
if we aren't chosen,
that means we get to choose.
i think that deserves to be pondered upon,
you know, if thinking were allowed



on this day three years ago on facebook

denial rules the world

new age brainwash
forgiveness and light
the torture never ends
good positive thinking
and blame the victim
you know, for good measure

exodus

spiritual wisdom isn't for sale
you can't just pick it up in the gift shop at the luxury spa resort
no matter how much you paid to hear the guru talk at you
you can't just slap the words "native american" on it
and give it some elevated status
that the native americans themselves
never had

friendstacy
(copy/pasted from facebook)

they got a universalist pope a hundred years too late

science doesn't have to agree with the bible upon penalty of death anymore and adam and eve isn't the only creation story ever told. try wrapping your head around other ways of looking at the world, it might just blow your mind.

love-as-a-spiritual-experience

love is subjective, whomever you share it with is your business. it's a personal thing. subjectively, religion is also your own personal business. you don't have to share it with everyone. (objectively, religion is an abusive institution for societal control and that's why i don't like it much.) your personal relationship with whatever divinity you believe in is none of my concern. if you don't want anybody else telling you what you should believe you don't get to tell them what they should believe, either. that's when it gets personal.

it is way past time we stopped picking on people who don't love the way we think they should, or don't pray the way we think they should. because it's all the same, really.

pete and repeat were sitting on a fence...

(or, reruns)

there never was any separation between church and state. they are symbiotic parasites, neither can exist without the other, and we the people are the host.


the lion and the unicorn
were fighting for the crown
the lion chased the unicorn
clear 'cross the town
some gave them white bread
some gave them brown
some gave them plum-cake
and sent them out of town

such corporate entities aren't even real! they only exist as words on paper, yet they claim authority over every aspect of our lives, through the manufacture and manipulation of fear.

april 22, 2014

if people don't understand the difference between subject and object, they don't know who they are, and they can't recognize when that boundary has been violated. (and you end up with blurred lines and fifty shades, and other variations on the blame-the-victim themesong)

...

if indoctrination into your belief system is fear-based, you can't call it a religion of love. well, you could. i guess. but that's not what i call love.

and if your "spiritual" heirarchy resembles one of those MLM pyramid schemes, it's a scam. sure amway has some good products, but they got some shit, too. and do you really want to invite someone over who you know is just going to try to recruit you into joining the same scam, because that's how they get "higher" up?

and if you combine MLM and fear-based religious indoctrination, what do you get? pascal's wager! that's what! ...and christian apologetics, in general. which, as i've been harping on lately, is the objectification of subjective [spiritual] experience, and as such is used as a tool to control people, rather than empowering them, which would set us all free....

and if people don't understand the difference between subject and object, they don't know who they are, and they can't recognize when that boundary has been violated. (and you end up with blurred lines and fifty shades, and other variations on the blame-the-victim themesong)