The mad ravings of a soul looking for inner peace… Today I was sitting quietly after another dutiful week of work and other duties as assigned. This means laundry and scooping kitty litter. I realized that I have spoken little of what runs rampant through my mind. Okay, I have a degree in communications. I have a computer. I have little if any hindrance in using it. Ah, I will blog. Why? Well this format keeps me safe from the Religious Right, the Liberal Left, the Pro-lifers and the Pro-Choices. I am safe from the distinction of color and physical appearance. Hey, I can call a spade a spade. Where else can you do that?
Why am I lost in Middle America? I have yet to find my way in this bastion of free speech and religion. Odd isn’t it that the US Armed Forces are currently fighting/policing/warring/invading (pick whichever works for you) in a country that is moving away from a theocracy only to come home to a country where the lines of church and state are becoming less and less clear? It seems to me that a group of insane men woman and children moved to God Forsaken North America to worship as they chose. Something about a state sanctioned religion really pissed them off. You know King and Head of the Church of England. Now I find that if you are not a Christian go back to your country and stay out of ours.
Who the hell are “your” and who the hell are “our” and who’s country are they going back too? I know you will find it difficult but isn’t that a little short sighted? I know that there are extremes on both ends. You can be an extremist in any belief. Christian or Muslim. White or Black. Liberal or Conservative. Straight or Gay. God through us into this mess with the hope that maybe we could work it out.
Sadly all we have managed to do is be angry, full of our own personal needs and lacking in common courtesy. Now I will admit Jane Austin went a little over the top with social courtesy but would it be so damn hard to try a little. I always feel that I am in a war zone of life. Going to the grocery store it is challenging to return unscathed. So maybe Jane had it right hold your comments to the weather and everyone’s health. Hey it’s a start. Maybe we could learn to crawl before we walk?
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