My Heart Hurts...
I don't know if I can accurately sum it all up why my heart hurts so much.
First off, there is my reading about how truly horrid religion is in "The God Delusion".
Then let's pile on the movie I just finished watching about Women's Sufferage in a film called "Iron Jawed Angels".
Then let's cap it off with this post I found in a forum I frequent:
'Hot Chocolate'
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were
talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university
professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to
complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot
chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large
pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass,
crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them
to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:
'Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only
the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot
chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even
hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not
the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began
eyeing each others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and
position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain
life.
The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life
you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy
the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man
chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything that they have.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly...
And enjoy your hot chocolate.
First off, why is it that God supplied the cup that our lives are held in? How can you say that a figment of your imagination created you when biology clearly states the evolutionary process? Why do we have to learn the lesson of humility and gratitude from a deity? Why? It's an honest question. WHY? Why is it that my conscience and my own personal growth has to be quanitified and "judged correct" by a deity? Last time I checked, it didn't. Why is it the last phrase "Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly..." has to be put in context of a religious sense? Can't you just say, "Be humble, be kind, be generous" WITHOUT having a religious reference?
Now let's look at this further. Why is it that women have been and still are persecuted by men in the name of a God? Why? I want to know why. I want to know what gave men the right to step on the backs of women. The Malieus Malificarum, from far back in the history of the Catholic Church stepped on free-thinking women. Even into the 20th century the thinking was still the same. Why do women have to suffer so much? Idiots on Capitol Hill try to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body when they have not an inkling in their Male Chauvanistic heads what the hell being a woman is all about. And they do it in the name of an imaginary diety so that they can justify the further persecution of not only women but other human beings on the planet who don't share their views. Who the FUCK decided that every single person NEEDS a "God"?
Now not only am I at a point to where I am PISSED OFF about Women's Rights, but now we add them all into the fact that these fucking religious nutbags just jump in on the holy roller coaster to belittle women as well. Then I have to put up with posts about a God who thinks it's ok to let this keep going on the way it is. That post that I cited above has the DIRECT intention to tell people that they aren't living the right way unless they believe whole heartedly, and without a shred of doubt or common sense, that their God who maliciously steps on people has the right idea. What HORSESHIT!
Why is it that my common sense tells me to keep my words kind, gentle and tasteful, but these religious whack jobs have the AUDACITY to tell me that I'm not being humble enough. That I'm going to burn anyway because I do not believe what they do.
WHAT A PACK OF UNEDUCATED, ILL TEMPERED, SENSELESS BULLSHIT!!!
It hurts me to see it. It angers me to no end. I'm just so fed up!!! My heart hurts!
First off, there is my reading about how truly horrid religion is in "The God Delusion".
Then let's pile on the movie I just finished watching about Women's Sufferage in a film called "Iron Jawed Angels".
Then let's cap it off with this post I found in a forum I frequent:
'Hot Chocolate'
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were
talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university
professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to
complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot
chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large
pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass,
crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them
to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:
'Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving
behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only
the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot
chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even
hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not
the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began
eyeing each others cups.
Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and
position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain
life.
The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life
you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy
the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man
chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything that they have.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly...
And enjoy your hot chocolate.
First off, why is it that God supplied the cup that our lives are held in? How can you say that a figment of your imagination created you when biology clearly states the evolutionary process? Why do we have to learn the lesson of humility and gratitude from a deity? Why? It's an honest question. WHY? Why is it that my conscience and my own personal growth has to be quanitified and "judged correct" by a deity? Last time I checked, it didn't. Why is it the last phrase "Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly..." has to be put in context of a religious sense? Can't you just say, "Be humble, be kind, be generous" WITHOUT having a religious reference?
Now let's look at this further. Why is it that women have been and still are persecuted by men in the name of a God? Why? I want to know why. I want to know what gave men the right to step on the backs of women. The Malieus Malificarum, from far back in the history of the Catholic Church stepped on free-thinking women. Even into the 20th century the thinking was still the same. Why do women have to suffer so much? Idiots on Capitol Hill try to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body when they have not an inkling in their Male Chauvanistic heads what the hell being a woman is all about. And they do it in the name of an imaginary diety so that they can justify the further persecution of not only women but other human beings on the planet who don't share their views. Who the FUCK decided that every single person NEEDS a "God"?
Now not only am I at a point to where I am PISSED OFF about Women's Rights, but now we add them all into the fact that these fucking religious nutbags just jump in on the holy roller coaster to belittle women as well. Then I have to put up with posts about a God who thinks it's ok to let this keep going on the way it is. That post that I cited above has the DIRECT intention to tell people that they aren't living the right way unless they believe whole heartedly, and without a shred of doubt or common sense, that their God who maliciously steps on people has the right idea. What HORSESHIT!
Why is it that my common sense tells me to keep my words kind, gentle and tasteful, but these religious whack jobs have the AUDACITY to tell me that I'm not being humble enough. That I'm going to burn anyway because I do not believe what they do.
WHAT A PACK OF UNEDUCATED, ILL TEMPERED, SENSELESS BULLSHIT!!!
It hurts me to see it. It angers me to no end. I'm just so fed up!!! My heart hurts!
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