Oppression is Stupid
2011-Sep-09, Friday 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
samthebraveI was asked by someone recently what religious beliefs I practice. Unfortunately, I am not going to disclose the details about my spirituality, rather I will provide a side of my background and let you use your imagination from there and since the two are related, it is a great opportunity to add some sentiment to something very dear to me.
I can tell you that I have studied several religions, and attended some of their churches. My favorite author on the subject is Joseph Campbell, who has studied religion far deeper than I could ever aspire to. He also coined “Follow Your Bliss”. What I will go into is history of oppression. The blacks were made slaves in the new world by the settlers in the south. The Jews were slaves in the middle-east for centuries, and now, a less commonly known oppressed group have been held down by the man; women. All have something in common; God. Fallible man, claims that God dictates who is not worthy of equality out of fear. For this reason alone I have chosen my spiritual path. Man is weak, therefore the church makes mistakes. I choose not to be led astray by human error. I do not condemn any church because the Churches own deities, Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Mohammad, all teach patience and forgiveness.
Now onto women, (damn this is sounding more fun). Women have always been seen as different from man, which they are. We will never be equal, because of those differences, but we were once looked at as peers rather than inferior and superior. We worshiped each other for our strengths instead of chastising each other for our weaknesses. Before the New Testament, a woman was cherished and even at times worshiped as a goddess in all religions. Today a woman is a risk to an employer and a hazard to sexual prowess of coworkers. Her strengths are a threat to the working man. In turn she fights back with every element of her being, lashing out at men, bosses and even other women. This is what happens to anyone who has been trapped as inferior for centuries. The floodgates open and chaos tears down the entire cage, scattering carnage everywhere.
We are still infants at this and have no idea what to do. The everyday rituals are lost and people sometimes joke the female orgasm is a myth. I don’t think that is funny at all. OK, maybe a little, but the truth is that the entire world needs to learn to cope with women as a part of society again, not just as a bag of flesh that does our chores and waits for hubby at home so she can hold his growing kid in her belly, just to be divorced and cursed by him later. The truth is that we are all scared. Men are become deadbeat dads because women are so strong that the men can’t restrain the fleeing beast inside of them and after generation upon generation of what we have been taught in our own homes, by the church, and the word of God himself, we panic. We must unlearn what we have learned for centuries. Put our women back up on the altar of worship for what they are, and humbly beg for their forgiveness.
On the same note we should also view the other perspective. In reciprocation we should be forgiving to the women for lashing out hard, post sexual revolution. Believe me it is not easy to deal with from a man’s perspective. We are sometimes clueless how to act on a date to each individual woman, let alone in an intimate partnership. I have been called many horrible names just for trying to pay for dinner, and like I said, that is just a date. It gets way more serious than that.
Neither men nor women alike are to blame for this hypocrisy. In fact no one should be blamed. It is human error and fear that, centuries ago, decided to burn strong willed women at the stake for being heretics. Joan of Arc became a military leader and freed France. If a man had led a country to freedom, which also happened, he might have been killed for treason by the opposition, but not by his own people. Joan was killed because she was a woman who under the voice of God grew in power strong enough to liberate a country. She must be a heretic. Kill her, she has a strong will. Burn her! Burn her! Her own government under Christian influence did that. Do you think that would have happened if Louie XIV would have led them to freedom? Men ordained by God! Think about it. Women, our beautiful women deserve their voice in the spotlight. Women are our caretakers, our compassion, our muses, and our reason to do justice. They give the world balance. They deserve our worship. They deserve our loyalty. Most of all, they deserve forgiveness from the fear of humanities need for power.
I can tell you that I have studied several religions, and attended some of their churches. My favorite author on the subject is Joseph Campbell, who has studied religion far deeper than I could ever aspire to. He also coined “Follow Your Bliss”. What I will go into is history of oppression. The blacks were made slaves in the new world by the settlers in the south. The Jews were slaves in the middle-east for centuries, and now, a less commonly known oppressed group have been held down by the man; women. All have something in common; God. Fallible man, claims that God dictates who is not worthy of equality out of fear. For this reason alone I have chosen my spiritual path. Man is weak, therefore the church makes mistakes. I choose not to be led astray by human error. I do not condemn any church because the Churches own deities, Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Mohammad, all teach patience and forgiveness.
Now onto women, (damn this is sounding more fun). Women have always been seen as different from man, which they are. We will never be equal, because of those differences, but we were once looked at as peers rather than inferior and superior. We worshiped each other for our strengths instead of chastising each other for our weaknesses. Before the New Testament, a woman was cherished and even at times worshiped as a goddess in all religions. Today a woman is a risk to an employer and a hazard to sexual prowess of coworkers. Her strengths are a threat to the working man. In turn she fights back with every element of her being, lashing out at men, bosses and even other women. This is what happens to anyone who has been trapped as inferior for centuries. The floodgates open and chaos tears down the entire cage, scattering carnage everywhere.
We are still infants at this and have no idea what to do. The everyday rituals are lost and people sometimes joke the female orgasm is a myth. I don’t think that is funny at all. OK, maybe a little, but the truth is that the entire world needs to learn to cope with women as a part of society again, not just as a bag of flesh that does our chores and waits for hubby at home so she can hold his growing kid in her belly, just to be divorced and cursed by him later. The truth is that we are all scared. Men are become deadbeat dads because women are so strong that the men can’t restrain the fleeing beast inside of them and after generation upon generation of what we have been taught in our own homes, by the church, and the word of God himself, we panic. We must unlearn what we have learned for centuries. Put our women back up on the altar of worship for what they are, and humbly beg for their forgiveness.
On the same note we should also view the other perspective. In reciprocation we should be forgiving to the women for lashing out hard, post sexual revolution. Believe me it is not easy to deal with from a man’s perspective. We are sometimes clueless how to act on a date to each individual woman, let alone in an intimate partnership. I have been called many horrible names just for trying to pay for dinner, and like I said, that is just a date. It gets way more serious than that.
Neither men nor women alike are to blame for this hypocrisy. In fact no one should be blamed. It is human error and fear that, centuries ago, decided to burn strong willed women at the stake for being heretics. Joan of Arc became a military leader and freed France. If a man had led a country to freedom, which also happened, he might have been killed for treason by the opposition, but not by his own people. Joan was killed because she was a woman who under the voice of God grew in power strong enough to liberate a country. She must be a heretic. Kill her, she has a strong will. Burn her! Burn her! Her own government under Christian influence did that. Do you think that would have happened if Louie XIV would have led them to freedom? Men ordained by God! Think about it. Women, our beautiful women deserve their voice in the spotlight. Women are our caretakers, our compassion, our muses, and our reason to do justice. They give the world balance. They deserve our worship. They deserve our loyalty. Most of all, they deserve forgiveness from the fear of humanities need for power.
