Religion

I dislike religions

Absolutely all of them

Yet through the hypocrisy, hate and discrimination

I can see glimpses of beauty and truth in all religions

It's this whole elitism thing I don't get

It's this whole endocrinate the world thing

If your koolaid is that good

Trust me that people will be kicking down your door

Trying to get in

So really.

What's the point?

It's almost like a self esteem issue at its core

Like I have to put you down to bolster myself

Or I have to have more people in my club

So I can prove it is worthy

It's pathetic is what it feels like to me

Religion is pathetic

Not the individual members

They generally speaking are in it for the right reasons

For a community

For support

For peace

For acceptance

It's too bad that those things aren't readily available to everyone

Without religion

Without being part of some heavily flawed system or group

Religion must teach, reinforce and EXEMPLIFY

its core values of love, acceptance, humility and compassion 

If not

It's just as much a buffoonery  

As politics

Only it has so much more power

Because one bring its values home

And practices them

Which makes it terribly sad

So very sad

That people are being indoctrinated with hate (reinforcing inequality) by hypocritical greedy bastards cloaked in robes and masquerading as Gods. 

A moth by any other name

My youngest sees a "white butterfly" and enchanted shrieks "look mama, a butterfly"

I nod in appreciation

But no sooner does her older sister chime in

"That's not a butterfly, it's a moth"

Which is essentially true

But

Does that take away from the beauty of the creature?

Does that take away from the experience?

To some perhaps it does

But who cares really what it is called

What genome it has

What species it realms from

It is beautiful

And can be appreciated

No matter it's name

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I don't correct the little one

Maybe I should/could

Soon enough though

She'll live in a world full or corrections

Full of the "right way" to do things

The "right way" to say things

The "right way" to behave

The brilliance of childhood to me......

is making allowances

And letting them just be sometimes

Letting the Glory of life

Shine through them

With complete abandon

Because once that is lost

It can rarely ever be found again

Fleeting perhaps

But never as it was during early childhood

Or can it?