Cancer of Religion
Christianity is based on the idea that the world is fallen--defective, execrable, defiled, rotten, corrupt, debased. Christians consider natural impulses evil--to be resisted and invalidated. They are commanded to be "in" this world, not "of" it. They exist in an adversarial relationship with nature. They're bananas; Nature is perfect. It was never something idyllic which later "fell". God isn't waiting to destroy this world and replace it with something better. He got it right the first time. I'm astounded by the arrogance of Christians--to condemn Nature itself. What kind of sick, retarded creature of Nature condemns Nature? Cancer. Chrisitianity is a cancer on Nature. 
There is nothing I love so much as this world and the creatures in it. There is nothing so perfect as the cycle of life. Buddhism is about acceptance and peace. Christianity is about rejection and war--the body at war with the spirit, angels at war with demons, God at war with Satan--man at war with evil--and all of it bathed... in blood. What a foul religion.
I am at peace with Nature in its perfection. I am at war with nothing and no one. It's all perfect. So mind-blowingly perfect. Not to worry though: this planet was here four billion years before religion arrived, and it will be here billions of years after religion vanishes. Therein lies Hope.
Shouts out to Alex, in Austria. I wish I could pronounce "weltanschauung" as perfectly as you. I miss you. xo. Oh, I had lunch with Leslie Jordan last Friday--seems like a genuine guy, and his voice is infinitely amusing.
posted by Aethlos at 2:27 AM
3 Comments:
For Buddha's sake just marry me already!
Paganism in its Greek and (not so much)
Roman version was the religion most compatible with a life fully lived. There were shortcomings, but these were only magnified when Christianity became dominant. Paganism is always there, not a faith, but the reality of who we are.
I feel as though I have lived an authentic life before, and wait with eagerness for the time that Mankind finds itself again.
As an ex-fundamentalist, I find it frustrating how we here in america mix the religious rights political rhetoric and it's strange anti-Christian theology and social outlook with true Christianity.
If you read the writings of the religion's founders you find a much more balanced view of creation and our place in it and of it. St. Francis of Assisi is one of many who found a real communion with nature and strove to derive inspiration from it. A contemporary man is Thomas Merton who became a true hermit, lost in nature, near the end of his life.
Our own scriptures, and here I show my slip a bit, define us as one of God's creatures. Ecclesiastes says we are dust and will return to dust, not any different in that respect from a tree, or fish. St. Paul tells of the way man finds God, or the devine, through creation. There is a spark of the devine in the world and in us who are created as images of the devine. How can any Christian hate nature when faced with those facts? If they do, they are not Christians, or merely half formed Christians.
As for bloody? Yeah it is. It's based on blood atonement, but one that was voluntary. The blood issue drove many early Christians out of the early church and away from Jesus.
War? Even St. Augustin of Hippo tried to define a "just war", but I humbly think that even he got it a bit wrong. Did Jesus try to overthrow his Roman oppressors? Nope. He freed us without commiting violence of any kind. I look to that and pray others who use His name to justify violence realise that He would never approve. He even healed the man's ear that got cut off by Peter, his deciple, the night He was betrayed by Judas to be killed. There is no "just war", or just violence in the Christian way of life.
World without religion? Only if there are no people in it.
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