To hate people and love god often seems to be the sum of ALL creeds... Is it human nature?
Indeed, it is the certainty that they possess the truth, which makes people cruel. Especially board people whose lives find meaning
behind a computer screen... garbage in, garbage out...
In my observation. with or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion; any religion.
While reading these posts, one can safely assume that some have created God in their own image. Especially when it turns out that
God hates all the same people you do. Indeed, our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about him; her; it? Whatever...
To cheapen the lives of ANY group of people, whether because of their race, religion, political persuasion, etc,
it cheapens the lives of ALL people,
even our own.Constantly Judging others and their life situations prevents us from understanding a new truth.
If we could just free ourselves from the rules of old judgments; we might create the space for new understanding.
However, as humans, the notion that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
In religion, politics and business, we actively embrace institutionalized rejection of differences...
We do this almost as if it is an absolute necessity in a profit economy, which needs outsiders as surplus people.
One would hope that as we experience truth about who we are and how we behave towards people different that we are,
the madness of finding fault with others might disappear.
In a way, our world−view is imposed on us most successfully by people incapable of understanding it.
It seems that an unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
Indeed, I subscribe to the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world of our own creation.
For the most part we lack the tolerance for ambiguity.
So, we are compelled to hang on... always diggin' our heels... defending our believes even when our words and thoughts
might border on the absurd.
We pretend to know the daily reality of millions of people half a world away. We then form our own ideas of who they are as individuals.
We tend to believe what we read and hear from others that we trust without question. We then take that "information"
and use it as a foundation for our believes... and spread it as the gospel truth.
If we think about it, the wisest person still a human, experiences the same fears and anxieties as we all do. albeit about different issues.
They too are limited by their range of exposure to direct and meaningful experiences.
We can curve the tendency to stereotype, but it does not just happens, one most work at it.
Consider that some of us have been exposed to the nonsense that if you are a white person, you must then be a racist.
I know folks who cannot get passed the unsoundness of such conclusions.And as with many of our ideas and stereotypes,
they are incapable to reason otherwise.
As for me, I have actively challenge that "truth." I have made the effort to befriend diverse people. and have discovered that
white folks are just as diverse individuals as any other group. And as with any other group I have observed a full-range of attitudes
from the sublime to the ridiculous. as each of us have experienced at some point, for sure...
"Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it."
— André Gide
