People are generally driven by primal needs when they don't even ask another person what that person has to say about anything. For example, the group of people who sat around to discuss me. Never actually spoke with me, personally -- the group. They accepted one person's interpretation of what I said, but that person never told me that she was reporting what I said to someone else. She never said anything about telling other people that she was discussing my home or anything that I was doing. She obviously thought that she was already entitled to a certain role in my life. No. She is not. Then, they sat around discussing where I needed to go and where I was allowed to live. Then, what happened, a man named Brian, who is usually inebriated showed up to tell me that I needed to go to the Community of Hope to get help and beg for money because he prayed about it. I'm not supposed to worry about anything because "you'll get a girl." The amount of social control via the verbally stated Christianity in the city I live in is tremendous.
It is a game to claim Christianity and live anyway people want more than anything else. The problem with it here is that I am Biblically literate. I don't know every single word in the text; however, I do know that an actively using alcoholic's advice, even while claiming prayer and a belief in Jesus, is not sound advice. Even God communicates with individual people about their lives. The reason people don't communicate with others about situations and events is directly because of the risk of being wrong or for the need for personal change. Having a stand point and expecting everyone to fit the mold devalues divine creative design.
Everyone has a "fix" for that person's community. Some people think that it is hiding the homeless. Some people think it is imprisoning the poor or incriminating transgender people. Some people think that it is alcohol and others think that it is their own personal quest for happiness. Lots of people think it is their enforced Gospel stance, yet they don't understand that they are persecuting the same people who are working with them and helping to support them. Why? Sameness.
Sameness is primal. All too often someone will say to me, "but you have more ______ than me. I only have 2." This happened last night. Ownership is about choice. The person who said it to me is constantly drunk or looking for the next drink. I don't spend any money on alcohol. I don't spend any money on drugs. I am constantly accused of being active drunk or a drug addict all of the time. Why? People need others to be just as depraved as they feel. They don't have anything, so they don't think other people should have anything. The same person was surprised that I owned plates. Why? He claims he doesn't have any and claims that it makes him more poor than me.
The U.S. Mexico border to include parts of New Mexico have a poverty arrogance. People are proud to be poor. It's an odd game of who can live on less money. Who can own less? Why? Personal pride is the means through which most communities have striven to find their identities. Poverty is a game. Poverty is primal.
In poverty, people literally work to marry people still to have children to attain wealth. Why? People aren't valued as human beings as they need to be. In most families, the leader's happiness is what attains group cohesion.
For example, in my family of origin, most of us bonded together because we wanted my grandmother to be happy. After she died, most of us didn't talk anymore. Why? We were together for her to be happy. Her happiness was more important than our conflicts. Without her, the family would actually have to contend with the relationships that we never really built as we were bonded around one person. That person wanted us to be happy and make our own decisions. After she died, so did our family freedom. All of a sudden, no one was allowed to choose anything. Everything was about someone else's religion.
I earned a degree in religion because it was something that wasn't ever forced on me as a child and was a means to explore something new at the university. We were never forced to go to church or believe in anything when I was underage. It has only been since I have been over 30 that belief has been forced at me from other adults who mainly don't 1) know anything about me, 2) have any real training what they believe, or 3) accept difference of any kind.
When the final answer is "Just say Jesus. It makes them happy," belief is dead. If my faith is a matter of someone else's happiness, then a personal relationship with a deity is dead. When everything is about emotion, then it is doesn't matter that we can also think and believe. Every feeling is real. Not everything is a feeling. Causing poverty to convert people to your point of view because it is good for that person's soul is religious oppression and immaturity. Belief isn't an emotion. Entitlement in a belief system is arrogance. Choice is freedom. Working to make another person's life more difficult is the role of the Devil in the book of Job. Specifically working against another person because of an emotional state is, therefore, evil.
The Evil One works against people following God. I find it to be interesting that my kippah means that I don't have any kind of relationship with the Abrahamic God people find in the very scriptures that they quote to tell me that I 1) need to repent, 2) have turned away from Jesus, or 3) am wrong for worshipping with those Jews. Praying in a Jewish temple meant to some people that there is no Jesus there. My mode of living was recently questioned at a bus stop by someone who wanted to know if I was still worshipping with the Jews. Instead of religious discrimination clauses being able to be defended, people can now just claim that they need to approve of another person's "mode of living." Really?
I know a lot of devout Christians from temple. An omnipresent deity is not confined by brick and mortar. Primal instincts can be captured and imprisoned. God bless all of Remnant Israel.
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