There are some people I know who would look at the title of this blog and shrug and say, "Yeah, I knew that about him". They would say that not because I am some immoral cretin or that I never speak about God, they would say that because I do not talk about God often if at all. Those that know me well, and that number is small just like it is supposed to be, know for a fact that I am a spiritual person and I have a belief system. It is not like anyone else's.
That's not 100% true, it is like a lot of people who follow the red road, a very lonely road. I reject all of the sons of Abraham. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. No Hebrew fairy tales for me. Anything closely resembling Christianity is not what I am about. My belief system is actually very very simple.
I outright reject all dogmatic beliefs. I believe that there is a underlying and very real misunderstood/mystery that connects everything. Everything. People, air, animals, plants, atoms, protons, neutrons and croutons. We are all connected at a cellular level and it is real. Noting in the spiritual realm is written in stone (That's a ten commandments joke) because life is ever evolving. Life changes all of the time. The generation I am a part of, to be 6 foot tall is normal, the preceding generation 5'10 was average. Our jaw lines are changing, our vision and our sense of smell is changing. We are ever evolving, we are always growing- or at least should be. The only thing that is not growing is dead.
I am constantly updating my beliefs. My beliefs from even two years ago are drastically different. I used to believe that Jesus was a real person until I decided, after a conversation with a evangelical person, to research for myself and the evidence that he was made up from a mish mash of Judaic myths and Egyptian/Roman deities is too much to deny. I have read 7 books about the historicity of Jesus and that is what I came away with. I read some to say that he was real and their arguments were thin and involved a stretch of the imagination that I just can't do. My beliefs evolve and change because I evolve and change. What was sacred is not sacred because I can't tell you what is sacred because I do not know where you are on the path that you are on. I know that we are connected, I know that I am sacred and so are you and that life itself is a sacred thing. Anything living has use and deserves love, compassion, respect and space.
I respect the process. Some call it the "path" or whatever comes to the imagination but the process of belief is personal and i can't decide for anyone but myself. I can demand and expect respect but if I don't get it I am not surprised. Your spiritual path, if you are on one or not, if yours. Even if you're an atheist that is still your belief. I can't decide what religious practice you participate in or what you practice. That is up to you just like this is up to me. Don't get me wrong, I can and often do, critique it and even rail against it if it harms me, others or the Earth or our four legged family
The crimes committed in the name of God or Jesus or Muhammad should and need to be called out as dangerous and insane. If you can gather from your book or "teaching" that an abortion doctor should be killed or you should blow yourself up or even that some mysterious sky daddy is interested in real estate and demands you build temple and kill all those unlike you then I am going to call that ill shit right out. I refuse.
So call it Wakantanka or Gitchi Manitou or Bill, I don't give a rip just don't harm anyone that is all I am asking.
Trust me when I say that I will critique religions, especially Abraham's boys because if your entire belief system is based on falsehood and you have "rules" that treat women or anyone with anything but the utmost respect then come back to this blog soon. I've been studying,.,,,,,,,
