I can just feel a rant coming on. Why in the name of all that isn’t holy do people hand over their lives to religious leaders? Who in their right mind would buy chocolate shaped like Jesus on a cross? Do you eat the genitals? And many more questions …
We watched a documentary about the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints the other day, and how a cruel nutcake pedophile managed to convince tens of thousands of people to give him all their earnings, all their children and all their minds, was one question they couldn’t answer. And it turns out the FLDS run or ran a vast business empire, including pecan farms that they would get the women and kids to harvest. Seemingly voluntary slavery, with those who worked outside turning over their entire paycheques to the “church”. The son of the current leader who is managing the empire while the actual leader is in jail said when he was sent to work on a FLDS compound they literally only got two hours sleep, which is a common cult tactic, combined with poor nutrition, which creates these willing zombies. Just ask the Hare Krishnas.
A sense of community is one thing, but handing over your mind is a terrible thing. Perhaps ignorance is a kind of bliss, but a rotten one that opens you up to gross exploitation.
So happy bunnies and spring, but can we please stop glorifying government execution and martyrdom and on top of it all, let’s put to rest the notion that a man who died two thousand years ago died on our behalf.
Have an eggselent Easter nonetheless, and sorry to be rude about the Rood, but if you are gnawing on one, please do enjoy the stigmata last.
Good Morning! Busy domestic times as we have potential son-in-law visiting for the week (sans daughter!) and it was Mikey’s 21st birthday on Monday and we had a three day bash, sort of, including a fabulous dinner at the Wellington Gastropub. And we went to the Diefenbunker, an actual cold war bunker designed to house the Federal government while the rest of us huddled slowly frying in our recommended basement fallout shelters. Which we somewhat depressingly followed up with a trip to the Canadian War Museum yesterday. Madness abounds in this world … hard to find the silver linings, but despite our modern technology, or I should actually probably say because of our modern technology, we are actually more humane and better behaved to our fellows than at almost any previous time in history. It has become harder and harder to see the foreigner as truly other, for more and more of the global population. Ah, whew, I found a silver lining.