Just read, how christian groups label the shooting on T as a demonic act. And that it was prophesied. That T is holy. The chosen one. The Messias.
Don’t get me wrong. I condemn shootings, also this one.
Project twenty twenty five is backed up by these Christian fundamentalists. I am sure many know. I am just not sure, how serious people take that. The Power of churches in people seeking validation, seeking help and spiritual support, makes them open to these kind of ideas. And makes them believe in it in a way, that is far stronger, then seemingly any fan of democracy is, with his love for the latter.
I am a spiritual person myself. I practice and I try to grow. So I know what it can feel like to hit rock bottom and find solutions in teachings and hope. I am very fortunate, to have been blessed, to have studied early in my life, how personal freedom is connected to freedom of thought and how freedom of thought is something we practice. Be it in media competence, in scientific and truthful citing of sources, be it in logic and dialectic thinking. I was blessed to meet teachers early in life, that taught me the skills, that helped me perfect my tools. To distinguish between possible right and possible wrong, between who seeketh power to abuse and who doesn’t. In times of AI we are challenged all the time, to distinguish between right or wrong. And I am sure, we fail a lot. Because it is so hard. Out Skills are being challenged on a daily.
What I learned from my own spiritual journey, that is far from perfect, is, that hope is necessary to go on. And when I see a post by a person talking about T like that, I must admit, my hope is dwindling. Freedom of thinking is very shook and might not exist any more, also: how in the world have we managed to put a person on a pedestal, who is clearly not of the light, but who lies and cheats and people still find arguments why he is the Messias. That auto correct wants we to change ‚Messias‘ into ‚mess‘, is freudian to say the least.
Hope for me, comes from 2 main sources, one is my strong connection to the divine, but also to the power of dialectic thinking. It gives so much strength and power, to unravel mysteries, to see threw the fog and to distinguish the bad form the good. Even when sometimes, it is only the lessor evil that gets my credit. I have to keep the eyes on the prize.
I have never officially been part of any church. It was something I had wanted at times, especially when I was still a kid. But I am very thankful, my mother actually forbade me, to become catholic when I was 10. She said: „you are too young to make such a decision, you will have the opportunity to revisit the decision when you are older“. And she was right. I did, and I knew, it was no fit for me. No church was. When asking for a bible for Christmas in my early 20s, I wanted to study it, she gifted me one and picked out a quote:
„A woman must not wear a men’s garment, nor a man wear women’s clothing. For the Lord your God detests every one who does this.
Genesis 22,5
From a logical point of view, it is easy to see, something is cringe about that statement. It seems innocent, but it is not: it tries to put a fashion choice up for debate. As if fashion was something that was always the same and as if, choosing what you wear, makes one an unfaithfull, maybe even bad person. It does seem, like a sentence that might have been put in there for very different reasons, at a very different time. But it shows, how critical one should be, when reading said book. I am sure, to show me this, was my mom’s intent.
Part of practicing any kind of spiritual practice is, working on ones ego. I found for me, learning humility and reflexion was and is a big one for me. I am far from perfect. But I have seen, that there are a number of things that help with learning humility and one of them is, learning about ones privileges, practicing bias conscious language and thoughts. And even though in social situations, in social systems two things can be true at the same time (unlike 1+1 is always 2), in order to be able to make those decisions, critical thinking is key as is humility and the connection to the divine. To me, it is like two sides of the same coin. One cant’t go without the other.
So while there are big groups of people calling T a savior and a Messias, believing it with all their heart, the thinking that that kind of belief is inferior because it is not rooted in logic (mostly done so by liberals, leftists and science lovers) is dangerous. Not taking it serious is a problem.
Religion is private, so is spirituality. I am a strong believer in that and even though, I live in Germany, where kids have actual religion classes in public schools (yea…I know…), I also see, how the week link, the Achilles heel of the democracy loving part of people are often having is this: their lack of belief and the lack of strength that comes out of that.
How about believing in human rights, in logic in dignity. And believing in it as strongly as anyone who is religious or spiritual. It would serve democracy. It might defend democracy. It might save us from a so called Messias. It might save us from project twenty twenty five. And we need to be saved.
Most of you, who have read this to the end, most likely already have this passion for the above, most likely have this strong connection, the need, the hope and spark. Everyone else. what do you need, to develop it? Honest Question. We need people to wake up and see the urgent need to connect to causes and people. To be full of light and power. We need hope.
What do we need?
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all the links have been added a year later. This was first a Facebook post, I put it on my site, cuz I thought it had good insights
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