Happy Easter!! I hope you had a great Easter with Family, friends, etc. We will be in Cocoa, FL. to visit family for Friday afternoon and Saturday but Easter will be spent driving home. But being that it is Easter and since, there is a whole lot of news going on about religion....I figured I'd soap box.
OK, I am a Christian. I have friends who are Buddhist, Islamic, Agnostic, Pagan. If it is a religion, I probably have a friend who follows it. Even under the 'label' Christian, I have friends who are Catholic, Methodist, Pentecostal, Congregational you name it. I absolutely accept Jesus as my Savior but part of that is this....the bible says LOVE ONE ANOTHER. It says Judge lest ye be judged. It says that how you judge others is how you shall be judged on your judgement day.
As far as the laws that are being passed in Indiana. NO just NO. If you have to make laws to force the world to abide by your God......then it is against what America stands for. Just wait till the Muslims ask for Sharia law to be allowed....or other religions ask for their holidays to be recognized by the federal government. Quietly certain religions have guided what is and is not acceptable in our society. America was founded as a place for all religions to come together and not fear persecution. And yet daily one religion will put down another. All of one religion are viewed as the same as a few extremists.
What if all Christians were seen as being like Westborough Baptist members? Do you really want them to represent you? Just like we should not be judging all jewish people, all buddhist people, all islamic people.
I recently heard someone on a talk show state, we don't go to war for our religion. Our wars are to protect those who can't protect themselves. The middle east has been fighting for thousands of years over religions. This is not a new thing. The new thing that popped in is US. Back thousands of years ago there was this thing called the Crusades. That was Christians waging wars against other people of other religions. We have all done it. All of our religions are somehow involved in past wars except I guess Buddhists. They don't believe in war.
All of this sabre rattling needs to stop. Why can't we just be Americans. Why do you care if gay people get married if you are not gay. Why should you be able to tell someone they can't eat in your establishment if they are gay? 50 years ago it was ok kick someone out because they were black. No matter how you cut it its discrimination. As long as we allow color or religion to make us unequal we will never find equality.
I watched a documentary once that really hit one spot that I think needs to come out though. It discussed discrimination within the black race. It talked about how within their own race the color of skin is an issue. How dark are you.........lighter skin is prettier or darker skin. And if you talk with better grammar your too white. You are a sellout. I understand there was slavery. I understand it was horrible. I also understand that we are 100 year plus past that. The people screaming that their family was slaves never experienced it. Yet every day women white, black, asian, hispanic are taken and sold into slavery. Boys girls you name it. All over the world.
If everyone stopped TODAY and said I am me. I am an America. I am free. Anyone can be who they want to be. OK, money is tight, work a job flipping burgers to help your family out. Don't sell drugs on the corner. OK someone told you that you are nothing. Show them you aren't. People who feel discriminated against allow it in some aspects. By letting the actions of others affect their behavior they let that person win. Please people.........stop.
We are not white. We are not black. We are not asian. We are not Christian. We are not Muslim. We are not Jewish. We are not Buddhist. We are not the things that have been said to us in anger or disgust. We are not worthless. We are not unloved. We are not part of the problem. We are American. We are people. We are worthy. We are special. We are loved. We are part of the solution.
All we have to believe is that we are American. We are worthy. We just have to get off our butts and stop letting people have control of our thoughts. Stop letting people control our value in our own minds.
Easter is a time of rebirth. Consider tomorrow, waking up and starting over. Don't judge others by what they look like. Don't judge them by what they wear. Smile at a stranger. Hug someone who needs it. Love yourself. Love others.
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