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Suck Haikus!
I'll get to some substance later. Right now, I need some haiku-style complaining about Goddess Religions. We're a little bit behind in class, but the reading for today was about God and Genesis. The "tribal Yahweh," as Mitchell calls it.
The attacks are back
God is not respected here
they cut Him to bits.
Why is it so cool
to try to make God look like
a complete moron?
Or make Him a mean,
evil, corrupt, and worthless
patriarchal jerk?
That is not my God!
My Father is kind, loving,
majestic and good.
He is a savior,
extending His love to all,
who are unworthy.
He is vengeful, yes,
He has every right when His
perfection is wronged.
But we deserve more
than even the wrath we get;
His love protects us.
Just because His Book
reflects the myths of the
goddesses of old...
...this does not mean that
they are not true - they are
Truths behind the myths.
They can't both be true
but that doesn't mean that both
must be wholly false.
There is nothing that
frustrates me more than seeing
these dumb arguments.
In case you can't tell, I found the reading for this week very frustrating. It was all about how this stupid Hebrew god shows up and ousts all the goddesses, eradicating so much of the rich beauty of the previous religions and replacing it with the stark, ugly evil of Patriarchy. With a capital P.
Grr.
I really struggle with this crap. It gets to me on more than an intellectual level, and frustrates me to no end. Thank God that the moment I step outside, I can take a deep breath, revel in God's creation, and know that He is God, no matter what these stupid books tell me. Sometimes, I have to cling to a truth as though it was nothing more than dogma, not because it is but because that's the only way I can deal with it without losing my head. Only later, after the fact, can I look at the arguments being made and refute them logically. My first reaction is to freeze up and panic, and the only way I can save myself is to cling to what I know is true. So that's what I'll do when I get out of class today - I'm going to cling to the Truth and I'll deal with the lies later.
-Jaya-
P.S. As a rather irrelevant side note, what on EARTH is my teacher wearing today? That's got to be the most hideous thing I've seen in a long time. Shiny bronze MC Hammer-esque pants with a velvet-looking shirt that hangs down low and completely destroys any form she might have had to her body. Ick - looks like a wannabe Aladdin or... something. Wow. I'm quite at a loss for words to describe it.
aggravatedThe attacks are back
God is not respected here
they cut Him to bits.
Why is it so cool
to try to make God look like
a complete moron?
Or make Him a mean,
evil, corrupt, and worthless
patriarchal jerk?
That is not my God!
My Father is kind, loving,
majestic and good.
He is a savior,
extending His love to all,
who are unworthy.
He is vengeful, yes,
He has every right when His
perfection is wronged.
But we deserve more
than even the wrath we get;
His love protects us.
Just because His Book
reflects the myths of the
goddesses of old...
...this does not mean that
they are not true - they are
Truths behind the myths.
They can't both be true
but that doesn't mean that both
must be wholly false.
There is nothing that
frustrates me more than seeing
these dumb arguments.
In case you can't tell, I found the reading for this week very frustrating. It was all about how this stupid Hebrew god shows up and ousts all the goddesses, eradicating so much of the rich beauty of the previous religions and replacing it with the stark, ugly evil of Patriarchy. With a capital P.
Grr.
I really struggle with this crap. It gets to me on more than an intellectual level, and frustrates me to no end. Thank God that the moment I step outside, I can take a deep breath, revel in God's creation, and know that He is God, no matter what these stupid books tell me. Sometimes, I have to cling to a truth as though it was nothing more than dogma, not because it is but because that's the only way I can deal with it without losing my head. Only later, after the fact, can I look at the arguments being made and refute them logically. My first reaction is to freeze up and panic, and the only way I can save myself is to cling to what I know is true. So that's what I'll do when I get out of class today - I'm going to cling to the Truth and I'll deal with the lies later.
-Jaya-
P.S. As a rather irrelevant side note, what on EARTH is my teacher wearing today? That's got to be the most hideous thing I've seen in a long time. Shiny bronze MC Hammer-esque pants with a velvet-looking shirt that hangs down low and completely destroys any form she might have had to her body. Ick - looks like a wannabe Aladdin or... something. Wow. I'm quite at a loss for words to describe it.
Either way, the more I read your blog about this Goddess Religions class, the more I wonder why bashing God is considered intelligent and educated. Seriously. It seems to have just as little substance as the people doing it claim our beliefs hold.
Odd story I remember reading. It was atheist in perspective, but it sadly made some sense.
There was a time when there were no gods or goddesses in which anybody believed. Finally, somebody decided to ask for guidance, and then another, and another, until the whole of humanity was crying for guidance. Instead of deciding which god should go and give humanity that guidance, be it the One who created everything including the rest of the gods and who they just called "Him" or "You" for lack of a better name, or the God of Jam, who would have had his work cut out for him because jam had yet to be invented on Earth, all of the gods decided to answer the call.
This led to much confusion among the people. They were hearing guidance from thousands of different voices, and couldn't quite wrap their head around it. Finally, some decided to just listen to one, and the trend caught on. Unfortunately, nobody agreed which god people should listen to. Eventually, their voices began fighting each other much like the conflicting voices of all of the gods.
So many people became discontented about the confused state of civilization since the gods came down that multitudes asked all of the gods to just leave and let humans sort things out, since it was too confusing with them. The gods cried that the humans needed them, but humanity preferred the consequences to the regular existence.
So the gods left, and while people did not live quite as happily ever after as they might have, they at least lived lives that were far less puzzling.
Now there's some food for thought.