Not Such a Good Friday For All of Us

It's good Friday. That's a joke, in and of itself. The xtians took Easter, Oestres feast, and tried to make it about the lie that underpins their religion, the idea that a Jewish Rabbi named Yeshua actually died and then got up from his bier and walked around for a day or two. Millions of people believe this and perhaps they can be forgiven, for they have been told this all their lives and they have never looked into it too deeply.

The other sad fact that this story brings to the festival of spring, of renewed life, is one of horrible murder of innocents. The Passover. One only needs to look at this story, to begin to nnderstand how fucked up it must be to be born a "jew". In this story the Jews are victims of the Egyptians and are only freed because their god murders every first born in every house not marked with the blood of a slaughtered lamb.

It is always interesting to me to read all the rules for sacrifice in the old testament. I suppose they weren't the only culture that obsessed about killing things to make "god" happy. What kind of god is all about getting animals killed and burnt?? What does this mean and why does it exist? Sure, there is little actual communication with the deity, despite what all the books want you to believe. I just find it difficult to think that any god worth knowing would cook up this evil and vile scheme, to kill all the firstborn children of the egyptians. It does sound like something certain humans would concoct. It has a very Game of Thrones, or nazi feel to it. But, why would god do it??? And even it you tell me that the children didn't suffer and got to go to god (we don't know that). What about all the people left behind who were then devastated by these deaths? I suppose it is sort of the same reasoning as sanctions. If enough of the population complains we can get Ayatolah Khameini to do things the way we want him to. Never mind the toll on the families and women and children.

So I hate Passover. I hate the very idea of the Seder. I hate the faux resurrection of the man Yeshua. I hate the fact that so many have transferred the natural festival of Oestres, the Goddess of creation, into a celebration of blood and death, and rebirth, but just for the one guy. Not the rest of us.

And then there's the absolute canard, "the chosen people." Man, as soon as you hear that you now the sound of self delusion. Being chosen by the god of the old testament, a minor babylonian figure, is pretty much a nightmare proposition. It helps me understand why most of the gnostics had that meme about the insane god. That's a big part of Phil Dick's version of western religion. Well, give me that old time religion, the one practiced before the xtians and the jews came along and fucked everything up, the religion based on the real world, the natural world of the trees and the rocks and the cycle of life and the flow of water through us all.

Finally, on this Passover weekend, let me just add that the people who are running Israel at this time are clearly extremely intent on pulling a masada. They are out to destroy themselves. And they seem dedicated to evening the kharmic score with the nazis. How incredibly sad and scary is that? They will never be evil in that same sense, but they seem to want to make the world accept that they can be as awful and unjust as they want, in the pursuit of making a world where that won't happen again. Because they are doing that now. So much bad kharma right now. who would've thought in the 1970s that the palestinians would gain the moral high ground? There is no doubt they are flawed, too, and perhaps more flawed then the Israelies, but it is getting hard to tell. The religious parties in Israel are intent on creating a sharia law state, using of course, the Torah to condemn everyone who isn't them. Wow. So very wrong.

Maybe it is as Andrew Sullivan has said, the idea is to completely eschew power.

You got me. I am just grateful that I looked up and the Lady was there, full of grace. I know that by Her love and Her mercy I will be given the chance to be honest with myself. Only the truth is worth living for. Only the truth is the door through death.