This is a writing meant to get a point across to those who fancy themselves "the chosen few."
There is never anything more insulting to someone who lives their life intending not to harm others, to bring peace to their own community, whose only goal is to spread Love and the light of the Aloha Spirit, than to tell that person that because I do not follow any certain religion that this would make me somehow not close to God. If it is the intent of those who attend regular church services to do so only to get their 'get out of hell free' card, I have news for you - God doesn't like it when we judge others, or when we take it upon ourselves to go out into the world, and instead of being kind, of seeking truth as it applies to others, of becoming somewhat (gulp) tolerant to the idea that no matter what you call your belief, what religion you follow - no matter what!! - God is God, no matter what name God goes by for us each, singly and collectively.
You need to read that holy text again, in its entirety, and learn from it
Instead of getting up on to your proverbial soapbox, vilifying me in public, telling me, a person you know only because we share memories of a similar neighborhood and zipcode, perhaps it is a better idea that you take that book that you swore you would shove down my throat to save my soul, open it up and read the damned thing. You see, you have this air about you that deems you as being acceptable to better society, but I know the real you. I know you better than you know your damned self, and I say this because I used to be just like you. Then one day, I saw the light. I saw that my words, my accusations, my interpretation of that book you wield like a newbie gangster does a gat - not very well at ALL ! It doesn't bother me at all that you are on fire for your religion, but, my friend, you need to be on fire with Spirit - NOT with facts that scream your truth for you.
You would not know the truth because you are blind to it. That book you like to wield commands that you do unto others as you would have them do to you, and you seem to think that the only way, the only truth, the only light is your very own interpretation of it. I am no stranger to the ecumenical writings which you can recite word for word, but it seems as though you are oblivious to the real meanings behind those words which you feel are the ones which will save the entire world. This, my friend, is not the truth. In fact, it is so far from the truth that it makes sense to me that you would hang on to them as though they were meant for everyone and according to your interpretation of them.
It is fine that you are as devout as you think you are, but this does not make it ok to f*ck with people just because they believe otherwise
You may not take your truth and try to shove it down someone else's throat, at all, ever, because lots of people are not like I am. I will get my words in edgewise this way, and I am doing it this way because you are so enamored of reading that I figured you would see this and know for real why it is that I basically said nothing. I am not one to make a scene, at least not a scene that was started by an ignorant and small minded person who cannot bring herself to see that there are other people on the planet, people who have different beliefs, and people who have respect for the beliefs of others.
You may think that when we parted ways and that I had nothing to say to you was my way of raising the white flag, but I must defer to the fact that you know me well enough to know that it ain't gonna happen that way- not now, not ever, and that when you told me that my silence was the thing that would open a can of worms, I let it be known by you now that it was not a can of worms, but rather, and unfortunately for you, Pandora's box.
You see, there are a lot of things in that book that you hide behind that have to be read as being a lesson, and the only thing that you have been taught at that building you meet in every Sunday is only a building. Yes, it represents the House of God, but if you were as smart as you pretend to be, you would know for sure that the actual House of God is each of us, all us humans, and man, you need to clean up your house, like, now. What I thought would be a pleasant exchange of niceties turned out to be my being lambasted, and for what?
Because I am not afraid to be who I am, and you know what? GOD LIKES IT THAT WAY..dumb ass!
Judge not lest first ye shall be judged...
I knew you when we were in high school, and back then I thought you were sort of strange, but that is the reason that I liked you. I am drawn to strange and unique things and people. How peculiar it is, the way that time brings us to these places where we stand upon high, looking down at the world beneath our feet, and how odd it is to me that my perception of things are not quite the same as yours, and they can't be, because the world is too beautiful, life too wonderful, even with all of its ugliness, for me to voluntarily become blind to it all.
How on earth do you suppose you might be able to see into my future, when you can barely see straight ahead of you? Your truth is not my truth - it never was, it never will be, and you need to deal with the idea that you cannot now nor ever save the entire world from that version of the afterlife that is set aside for Hitler and Charles Manson, not at all. You must be able to balance your faith with a belief that others can be trusted with what they believe in without your being there to damn us all to hell.
Oh, by the way- that's a sin, and it is not your call, neither your pastors' to decide who is golden enough to waltz through those pearly gates. If what you joined your church and became saved for was so that you can continue to walk the crust of the earth damning us all to hell...well, it's gonna be pretty crowded there.
But, don't worry, we will save a seat for you!!!
ROXANNE
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