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| Quibbling over Religion
Janet Kuypers 5/13/16 Believe me, I’m no historian, because even though some form wars to fight for land, or fight for power... if you look at the bigger picture, I mean, historically, wars have been over us mere mortals quibbling over religion. “My God is better than your God,” they think, even though, what do you know, half the time in modern times these fools are fighting over how they interpret the exact same God they’ve conjured in he first place. For some reason, the phrase “love your neighbor as you love yourself” keeps coming to mind, but so does the Inquisition (what a show, what a centuries-long show), just like the Crusades, and witch trials went on for hundreds of years, just like antisemitism (and that might have a thing or two to do with World War Two). And try to say with a straight face that if there are Christians bombing abortion clinics that there’s no such thing in this day and age as Christian terrorism. Think about it in modern times. The Holocaust might be too far away for you to remember, but Christians are bombing abortion clinics. Muslim extremists are shrouding woman and beheading non-believers.* Because even if people claim to believe in the same God, we can still find reasons to hate each other. If we believe in those Gods, we can only say they taught us well. Because after all this time, when we mere mortals now have all this power, the only choice we have is to destroy ourselves. And so we do.** * “Pluto, Plutonium & Death”, 4/10/16 ** “Everything was Alive And Dying”, 1995 |
