Some things I'm angry about:
- Religion: I think it should be at the top of everybody's list. All it does is screw up our minds to really be able to see the person standing across from us.
- Institutional Church: See "Religion", additionally - Church is a breeding ground for an us against them mentality.
- The Bible - in the hands of numbskulls: The Bible takes for granted, there is a living breathing intelligent human being reading it. Is this not the case, even the saintliest words of Saint John aren't going to make an ignoramus into Captain James T. Kirk, discovering new uncharted reaches of spirituality. It will, however, be used in order to back said ignoramus' points and overall way of life whatever the cost, even should it mean cutting down those who are not in total agreement. This is in effect quite easy, once fueled with enough arguments condemning the actions of others, as taken from God's Holy Word, making it a comfortable task for the ignoramus to overlook the shit in his own pants.
For this reason I am for abolishing the Bible. Being that I frequently smell the stench coming from my own pants, I will be keeping all my copies and continue reading them to further my understanding of God. Everyone else needs to get a license, in Bible reading before opening the book though. There's too much good stuff in there to let it be ruined by dumb shits just itching for a good argument to bring their brother down. To hell with them, and me too, should I ever go back to being such a self-abased apologist.
The Bible wasn't made for you! It's not Jesus love letter to you! Don't you think that Jesus would have found you without the Bible? Is God sooo unbelievably small that He can't get to you unless John Wycliff and sons come with a Bible translation for your tribe? No! Wherever you go, He will find you, and He is already loving all those people in all those tribes all over the world. Our biggest mistake is thinking Jesus looks like Ronald McDonald. Everyone has to understand how to preach like we do and they should all put some damn clothes on! Isn't God everywhere at the same time, like super Santa? Or is it somehow that we have to unlock some sort of secret level of the game, in order that his powers would also work among Incas, and be able to reach new parts of the world, which were, until that point, somehow unreachable by Him. WTF! Noooo!
God is BIG! You are small. Really small. Think about that the next time you read your Bible or go to church. The Bible is there to let you know you're going in the right direction. That you're just like all the other thick heads on the planet. You don't get better just because you read the Bible. You get confirmation of your own thick headedness. If you get anything else out of the Bible you're a numbskull and need a Bible reading license.
And yes, feel free to argue with me. Just not if you're an ignoramus.
