There are so many things about this life that I do not understand. The one that most drives me nuts is why people treat each other like they do.
Why treat you fellow man like sh**? It makes no sense.
I really should not be surprised. This has been going on since the dawn of man. But what really irks me more is that those that claim to be super righteous and followers of a grand religion are the worst offenders.
Now before someone starts going after me about this whole war on religion thing, I am so not doing that. But let's look at the evidence.
For the last 2000 years, Christianity has been the leading religion in the western world and a good part of the rest of the world as well. Christians are the followers of Jesus Christ. Now, if you are familiar with Jesus then you know his story and that he was a very gentle man save for one moment. That one moment he got mad at a bunch of merchants, at least that is what the story is in the bible. Don't quite remember all the details, but you get the point.
The rest of what Jesus taught, from what I remember, was tolerance, acceptance and generally loving everyone. I look at Jesus as the original hippie.
Now I know some people are going to freak over that statement.
But think about it. What were the hippies of the 60's promoting? While there were a lot of drugs going on at the time, they wanted acceptance, tolerance and love. And what do the fundamentalist Christians want now? They want to ban certain groups from getting married and trying to live a happy life. They want to stop woman as a group from utilizing family planning. But they want all the freedom in the world to do what they want to do and they want the gov't to stop other people from doing stuff they don't like.
WHAT...THE...F**K?
I have many friends that are devoted Christians, but none, I hope, would ever try stop someone else from being happy.
Jesus (I feel), above all else, taught acceptance. So, what are these people missing?
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