Posts Tagged ‘reality based community’

…..of the “reality based” blog community.  I see a lot of comments, a lot of little graphics like “God doesn’t kill people, people with Gods kill people.”

Ha ha ha.  Yes, amusing, is it not?  I mean, yes, I GET it.  All the wars with religious dissention as a side dish.  Islam needing to blow up people who are Jewish or Christian.  Jews in Israel burning to burn Iran. Christians in America screaming that Iraq and Saudi Arabia should be nuclear glass parking lots.  I get it.

Just let me point out one small detail, ok?  Since I understand none of those blogs would ever consider little pagan, polytheistic me part of their “reality base.”  Those religions that you rightly condemn for being so blood-thirsty?  They are MONOTHEISTIC. People with A God kill people.  Singular on the “god” bit, thank you.

Back in the good old history books before even your great -great grand-dad’s time, when the world was polytheistic for the most part, they didn’t have religion-based wars.  Your side had your godS and their side had theirs….no argument over THAT.  Then the wars were about territory, or riches, or better pastures for stock, or about stealing wives; any freaking number of causes but not religion.

I am just in a wee bit of a huff that because I have a religion, I might be grouped into the wingnut monotheist camp.  I am so very not “that”, thank you Joseph Campbell.  MY reality base says to me that if you don’t get nit-pickingly accurate about just what religions believe in killing people over religion, you might just alienate a lot of folks who do NOT believe in killing over religion.  Don’t group me, ever, with the religious whack-jobs who think they need to kill for “God.”