By Jeff Salisbury
Whether it’s Paris or Kenya…terrible things, religious superstitions. Just terrible.
Too many Muslim, Jewish, and Christian sects professing to be the keepers and translators of End-Times Prophecy.
Barf.
Barf and Puke and Puke and Barf on the lot of them.
Thanks to friend Steve Ward for coining a new phrase… “religious superstition super-storms” —- that what we are experiencing — “religious superstition super-storms” … sigh.
Take your superstitions to a desert or a forest or a jungle or a mountain top… scream till you are hoarse… and leave the rest of us the hell alone… take all your superstitions to your OWN graves and stop taking other innocent people with you.
Too many Muslim, Jewish and Christian sects are making terrible decisions based on what they think their God expects of them. Most likely God doesn’t need their help but to do good works in his or her name — not bad works.
Now, a bit of perspective is probably good. As my friend Cynthia Wells Westphal noted over the weekend in a Facebook discussion thread, “Time and again: Feelings of oppression + weapons and financial backing = some type of war. I don’t expect everyone involved with ISIS actually believes in their religion, some are in it for fame, money, have a mental illness, want revenge for loved one’s they’ve lost, etc.”
We all know ( or should if we were paying attention in our high school world history classes) that the western colonial powers of France and Britain (especially) made enemies (in-waiting) all over the Middle East, that for certain. The U.S. was complicit perhaps most notably with CIA-sponsored coups.
Generation after generation, all three countries have given the religious and the non-religious good reason to lash out at all three countries with or without end-times prophecies to substantiate their actions.
And while I am “moaning” — over the weekend I kept seeing repeated posts referencing the jihadi extremists attack on the university campus in Kenya earlier this year – April it was. I Googled “kenya attack 2015” —- About 69,000,000 results (0.35 seconds) — every major network and US, European and World News Service covered it. Seriously. There was no point. Unless “no point” is the point of course.
I love Facebook and hate it at the same time. Crazy eh? I told Steve in a note that sometimes Facebook in particular or social media in general, is like having a telephone party-line in the 1950s.
Social media has so many positives though. We must take the bad with the good. Social media can expose much of what’s wrong with the world if properly managed but these “end-times” religious groups are manipulating it to the worst ends.
No doubt in my mind this Kenya attack “echo” can very likely be traced to one of those groups. They will plant fear anyway they can be it overtly or covertly.
Still… terrible things, religious superstitions. Terrible.
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