...just something I wrote, once

The reason why I tend to often express my anti-Christian church sentiment a lot more loudly than I do anything else is simply because of where and when I am living. In the U.S., and in many other places, in 2002, the Christian Churches are the most "powerful".

The same sentiment applies to all other churches/organized religions as well though, whether it's Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or anything else. Although these churches have a few pluses, in my opinion, the minuses far outweigh them.

I was thinking this morning...

When did it become necessary to tell people not to beat their dogs, tease the crippled, respect women, etc.? In my opinion, that should just go without saying!

Persecution has existed, it seems, forever. Christians do it/did it, Jews, The Romans, The Egyptians. At first thought, one could simply blame the "Patriarchy", but persecution is not a men only sport.

One can only assume that it is the nature of humanity to be cruel.

Is it nature, or nurture which makes people cruel? Is it that somewhere back there, there was a cruel person, and from that person thousands of generations learned that being cruel was acceptable?

The chicken or the egg?

I cannot come up with an answer. I don't know that it's necessary though. To me, no matter which it is/was, the problem still exists, and that problem (in so far as I'm concerned) must be dealt with.

So... I set about correcting the problem. That is... I correct myself. I refuse to be "human". I will change my nature or correct my nurture, no matter what the cost.

THAT is the next step in evolution... because if it doesn't happen, our "species" will not survive. We don't need longer arms or sharper teeth. We need empathy. We need compassion. We need intelligence. It's our brains that must evolve.

The thing about life is that where there is a need, nature takes care of it.

We need to evolve.

Nature will see to it that we do.

I AM nature.

I am becoming. I am the alpha and the omega.

I am their darkness.

I am the true light.