What’s the use of it? In some cases it can function to reduce or prevent anxiety. In other cases, the opposite, as it is lassoed into deadly competition.

There’s a lot more ‘THOU SHALT NOTS” THAN love for fellow men and women, even in the New Testament. As I see it, Religion, as lived out, has little positive to contribute to the quality of life.

Au contraire!

I’m no longer impressed by “Thou shalt and thou shalt nots.” Even Jesus’ goals appear to be puffing himself up. What does “obeying me” have to do with love or spirit? The struggles over religion have become divisive rather than constructive for our souls.:

“Mind me, sonny, and I won’t send you to hell.“

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AN UNRELATED POEM:

Non-Binary

What is your status quo?

This or that, yes or no?

Cisgender’s binary,

but on the contrary

how would it seem

if you fell in between,

not male or female,

but beyond the pale?

An archetype, that’s what

half man half woman but

how to think of yourself

dressed in power and pelf

like a queen or a king?

But yet…but yet…which?

Be the son or the bitch?

And really be neither,

a free-to believer!

Now shut both of your eyes,

try to visualize

YOU! Choose neither one!

And not just for fun!

So don’t ask what I be

I be me! And free!

And non-binary!?