spawn
I’ve been thinking and thinking, mulling things over in my head since I left the house. Why do we as human beings choose to judge people and be judgemental? Do we have a right? On what basis do we have a right to say, “that is a satanic act, or “that is a symbol of the devil.” What benchmark do we use? Does the Bible not say, “Do not judge.”? Does it not also say, that we have to keep our own houses in order first? And that we have to “take that plank out of” our own eyes before we point out that “speck of dust” in our brothers? Life is already a struggle when we consider our own houses, that being not just, literally, our own homes, our own families but as well, ourselves. On a most fundamental of levels, it the chaos within ourselves that we must first sort out, then and only then should we begin to bring to order the hearts of others. Surely we must believe that we can multi task enough to help others but can we truly say that I am (near) perfect so I can judge you? Are we all not waiting for Judgement day to arrive? What has happened to Humilty, not just false humility for the sake of garnering comments such as “wow, that man is so humble,” but true Humility where we do not, in any small way believe, that we are entitled in that way referred to.
“oh gawd. jooles is being excessively noble again.” Yes indeed. Comments as such, I have already deemed as inevitable, and therefore, as far as possible, I shall not judge, nor even attempt to.1 I am not perfect, not even close to near-perfect. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d say I was -100. I remember Lama said to me once, about 10 years ago, (when I asked him if I was “sway.”) “Let’s put it this way, if I have one in ten chance of winning 4D, you have minus 100.” That said, I do honestly believe that my greatest failing is my ego, which then leads to my being arrogant.
But returning to the argument at hand; let me bring in my first guest Logician — the venerable Mr. Spock of the Federation Starship Enterprise.
a) (The Bible says that) worshipping idols is wrong.
b) (The Church interprets this as:) having any figurine or symbol of a figurine is wrong.
c) (The Church also interprets,) “wrong,” as ungodly, un-christ-like, and therefore Evil.
d) Evil stems from the Devil aka Lucifer, aka The Fallen Angel aka Satan.
e) any act of Satan is Satanic.
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Now we bring in another venerable (half) Vulcan - Lt Commander Tuvok of the Federation Starship Voyager.
therefore:
a) any evil act is Satanic
b) worshipping idols is Satanic
c) having any figurines or symbols of any sort (especially those depicting religious characters) is idol worshipping
d) which then implies that religions that practice having an alter where candles and offerings are made are Satanic. These would therefore include, the Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Anglicans, Catholics, the Jewish and hey, a lot more.
Oh dear, what have our Vulcan guests gone and done? They’ve opened a veritable Pandora’s box, haven’t they? But wait, aren’t the religions mentioned above older than Christianity? Ah. Ok so hmm, what shall we do? I know. Let’s help spread the Word. Force the people to denouce their Faiths. Condemn them all for being evil, oops, I meant Evil. No, that’s not right — Satanic.
Hooray for the Crusades, afterall we could do with a little more rape and pillage, all in the name of God. Hooray too, for ethnic cleansing — Let’s all make Adolf Hitler a saint. Saint Hitler or Saint Adolf… it just rolls of the tongue and they do have a nice ring to it doesn’t it? What we need is another Bosnia/Croatia, perhaps a Concentration camp or 2 would be a nice dollop of cream on the cake. Indeed, it’d be nice to have a Saint Saddam… now there’s a saintly name that rolls off the tongue. (And a living Saint at that).
Learn to Judge ourselves, pull that plank out of our own eyes. I’m so going to find that quote and print it on a tshirt and wear it church. It’s going to have the “don’t judge” quote on the front and the “plank” quote on the back. Both complete with the Books, Chapters and Verses. The shirt shall be sleeveless, so that I can show off my tatoo2.
1: True enough, I bitch and whine — perhaps even excessively, but I blog, I write not for the sake of others. And this is truly a justification of the existance of this blog. I do not wish for a listful of comments that go, “wah so deep.”
2: It does say that having a mark on the body is a sign of the Devil. A tattoo a mark and hence I am spawn of the Devil.
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Mood:Contemplative
