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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