welcome

i'm using my naive understanding to try to say something... just not quite sure what.


let's start this off with a bang.


1. a fellow student at the Jesuit Institution that I attend claimed, "Religion is meant to keep uneducated people content." That is the equivalent of Marx who claimed that Religion is the opium of the masses. "Marx argued that it is the material world that is real and that our ideas of it are consequences, not causes, of the world[...] he thought that historically and socially specific ideology prevented people from seeing the material conditions of their lives clearly."
-wik.

-inresponse-

iliketothinkthati'mabovereligion; however, every time i'm under pressure or in a great deal of stress, i catch myself praying... to what? The God of Martin Luther? is it instilled within me from my upbringing? Are unanswerable questions even worth discussing?

2. Even our textbooks misconstrue history... Our K-12 Textbooks/Standards Express the Identity Crises of our Nation.

in high school, we learned about how bad Hitler was; contrary to popular belief, however, christians contributed significantly to the holocaust. Martin Luther wrote negatively about the Jews because they did not convert to Christianity. How many nations were overthrown and forced to convert to Christianity? Jews were ridiculed for Jesus' death throughout Europe for centuries prior to Hitler's reign. In fact, Hitler claimed Christianity in his persecution of Jews, so you must agree that their culture differed so drastically from ours that we cannot begin to Relate to them. I refuse to elaborate further without my notes about the previous statement; the same applies to the one that i'm sharing now: The First Amendment states that Congress cannot legislate in favor of a particular religion within reasonable means. However, numerous state governments still took advantage of their right to persecute Jews prior to the 14th Amendment.

nobody told me any of that prior to this week. that's kind of a big deal to overlook when contemplating spirituality... come to think of it, the United States of America was one of the most illegitimate countries ever founded, and it's arguably second only to australia.

God Bless America!

3. despite my skepticism, Buddhism is really drawing me in.
to be this blessed, i had to have done something right in my previous life.