Monday, February 11, 2013

Religion, Bigotry, Nationalism, the Mind, and Inquiry

I noticed on my Facebook, and other places, it's common for people to attack Christians. I've primarily steered away from doing this sort of thing, but I do it accidentally sometimes when I post something about the workings of the mind. I am very interested in the workings of the mind, ever since I was young, because if you don't understand the mind then you don't understand anything; and I've always been curious about things imposed on me, psychologically, physically, and otherwise.

But to single out Christians, to me, is misguided. Anyone with an ideology and identity is confused and a bigot, prejudice. Nationalism and patriotism, and all ideologies and identifications and labels, is bigotry in disguise. So, anyone operating from these structures are doing the same thing; increasing the ego and attacking people, dividing people, subjugating people. It is violence.

I've known some good Christian folks. Many of them are much more caring than the pretentious liberals who pretend to care; pretend to care according to ideology but not action.

In the town I live in, it is common for people to separate into cliques; the wanna-be liberals in one corner, the conservative traditionalists in the other corner. And they all have the parameters of discussion, actions, and thought sewn up. They deride in subtle and gross ways, keeping you in check if you are different. I've made it my business to expose these frauds; at least, to myself.

Almost everything I post on the Internet is related to the workings of the mind; an understanding of it in a whole way, and not just this one particular way, not in a fragmentary way.

But the habit of most people is to fragment, see things from an identity full of ideas of I am and who you are.

And while the locals are claiming they care and believe in freedom while doing otherwise, imposing structure and restriction and relegating the average person to the status of slave, believing in the structure of social class, I'm sitting back and observing their hypocrisy.

God bless.

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