I have to admit I am tired of this world. All three Abrahamic religions and all, or most, of their sects are fighting over how to kill or save as many Palestinians as they can, many favor killing.
American and Western neocons are vying with other top players for control of the world. Gaza and Ukraine are stepping stones in that contest.
The low-mindedness and vulgarity of this, both the dramas and the ludicrous rationalizations, are unbearably self-limiting, inexorably destructive.
As individuals we have almost no say in any of it. Social media is a dead zone for thought, truth, decency. The best ideas or inquiries are shadow-banned into a silence worse than death. It’s the neocons doing that as well.
In the Abrahamic traditions there is actually a scriptural basis for genocide dating back some 3,000 years. In this crazy world, actual fighting and killing today in Gaza and Israel is actually based on those scriptures. Doesn’t that actually refute the whole religion, all three branches of it?
Christians run and hide from that conclusion because they have no other vocabulary or conceptual network to fall back on. Faith is good but not blind faith.
Too many voices I had respected are complacent, if not complicit, with the neocon slaughter. I am not surprised. I knew they would be.
Until the MIHOP raid on October 7, they had seemed to me to be maintaining an appearance of diplomacy, preserving their ability to speak to the public as best they could.
I viewed that as a kind of Buddhist upaya, a means to a worthy end.
But when the means are grotesquely disproportionate and violate all moral standards except the most severe, I can’t take it anymore. It’s definitely not a worthy end anymore.
In Ukraine, I read another 100,000 men have been killed over the past months in the obviously futile counteroffensive forced on them by neocons. That too is genocide.
Ukraine has been destroyed by neocons. Half the population has fled forever and many hundreds of thousands, especially young men, have been killed. The neocons provoked that war too and everyone with a brain knows it.
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I totally agree with everything you said! Yes, something went terribly wrong with the Abrahamic religions. One of my spiritual teachers would say “killing people in the name of religion…” and then would just shake his head. He laughed a lot, but he didn’t laugh when he said that.
Another teacher said, “the intellectuals have hijacked religion” and went on to talk about how religion is about experience, specifically about experiencing Mystery or God or the Infinite, Unbounded, the Vastness of our own consciousness. It’s about living it and not so much talking about it. And at our Source there is pure Love, Love is truly what we are in our most essential form.
I believe that Christ taught that and the best parts of the Bible allude to that: “Be still and know that I am God.” “Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.” So for religion to be about killing people is an obvious turning upside down of what it truly must be. Even those Abrahamic religions state “Thou shalt not kill”. But they also describe numerous times when “God’s chosen people” killed thousands.
The etymology of religion can be used to define religion as a kind of binding back, binding back to the Boundless, to the Unbounded Source of who we are, and out of whom everything came. And a binding back to our own true nature.
I appreciate the words “Tired of this world”. They come with sadness, tears even. And frustration because what can we do, what can one person do to really change this world? For me the only answer I can come up with is to do spiritual practice that helps to reconnect me with Source, and to do my best to stay connected to Love and try to treat all beings that I encounter with respect and kindness and compassion.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings!
very well put. ultimately, we act and think as individuals and are responsible as individuals