the church of nature.. love that expression Jeff...
sounds a little wiccan (which I personally find very peaceful and with more logic than most religions) but it has a sense of truth bigger than any publication from the wtbs or any other religion... it 'belongs', it feels right cause after all, we all are natures children...
Sometime I wonder if my reaction and aversion of the so-called christian beliefs is similar to the ones the native americans and the enslaved africans had when confronted with the 'do-or-die' concepts of religion presented to them by the slave mongerers... I can just imagine people who all their lives worshiped the sun, who gives light and life to the crops.. the river that gives sustenance and quenches the thirst.. that respected the animals and never took more than needed... who revered and respected the fire, wose power to warm and cleanse and destroy inspired awe in them... I imagine them confronted with the concept of a DEAD man on two pieces of wood...and a sword in their face... '...THAT IS GOD... THAT DEAD MAN ON THE WALL... WORSHIP OR DIE...' how confused-saddened-enraged they must have felt, comparing the power of the sun with the power of a dead man... comparing the theater of nature with a dark musty church... very sad indeed... and worst of all, people with better weapons enforcing their makes-no-sense' beliefs...
I refuse to be blackmailed or bribed into a christian heaven... rather die on a beautiful hill overlooking the caribbean on this beautiful island I have the privilege of living in... dont need heaven.. dont fear hell...
I wish I knew all this many years ago when I spent my youth being a slave of the modern slave trade called religion...
Just a thougt... be free.. be truly free.. I am at peace and I wish you all the same...