I don't like it when people say religion controls people's minds and is manipulative. I don't believe that it is. It's not God anyway.
Religion and God are two different things.This is a huge topic and I'm not sure if I can be bothered going into a huge argument/debate, I guess I just want to say this because every day I hear people slamming down the churches every day and I don't think this is right.
Anything that can inspire others to live happily, to feel joy and peace, to smile, to create, give, share and love - well how can that be bad? That's beautiful.That is so beautiful. I want to celebrate that. At the end of the day - religion is about love. At the heart of it - it is love. And we all need love. We all want love. In fact, we are ALL perfect beings of Love. Love is who we are. God is Love. I don't believe in the Bible. I'm not a Christian but when I think about God, Jesus, Buddha...I feel love. And I think that's what it is about.
People use religion, they can use the Bible's words and preach the things that they believe and sometimes these things are negative or demeaning to other people...and they claim that God is speaking through them and I'm not saying he's not. I'm not telling anyone how they feel. All I am saying is God's message is always one of LOVE and that love is non judgmental . It's people who judge people. Not God. It's people who create hatred and war. Not God. God is love.
Love lifts you up. Love brings you to happiness. Love heals you.
I don't believe in Hell either because no God of pure love (and God is PURE love and that is so amazing - that's beyond anything that we can imagine) and this love extends out to every single being in this world WITHOUT judgment. God doesn't judge because he sees beyond everything. He sees your soul and he doesn't believe in bad people.
I guess I just want there to be more respect. We don't have to agree with everyone. Of course we don't, and we can't. That's impossible. So we have to realize it's OKAY not to do. We don't have to like everyone and we don't have to get along with everyone. There is no way we're going to. So let's let that go. Stop feeling guilt about it, stop forcing ourselves to feel a way we don't feel because ultimately that just makes things worse. But what we can do is recognize the fact that we don't get along with everyone (or agree with their beliefs) and say 'HEY, THAT'S OKAY.' You don't have to like them - but you do need to respect them. Or at least - be respectful. Be polite, be kind....treat others the way you would like to be treated. Now I know that phrase is so over used but how true is it? At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel loved...every single being. Treat others the way you would like to be treated and we all will feel happier. It takes more energy to be angry/mean anyway and in the end, it's only doing you more harm.
I'm not trying to preach and it probably sounds like I am but I just wish, I really do wish that people were nicer to each other.
We're not good to each other and that makes me sad. Bukowski wrote a brilliant poem about this called 'The Crunch."
too much too little
too fat
too thin
or nobody.
laughter or
tears
haters
lovers
strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks
armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and fucking
virgins.
an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.
but sometimes I think about
it.
the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone.
too much
too little
too fat
too thin
or nobody
more haters than lovers.
people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.
meanwhile I look at young girls
stems
flowers of chance.
there must be a way.
surely there must be a way that we have not yet
though of.
who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it will not say
"no."
- Charles Bukowski
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