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Re: Different Day, Same Shit...
Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Saturday, May 6 2006, 16:56:05 (CEST)
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Emil,
I always tell people "I have faith in you...the non-religious kind", so it must exist!

At times like this I consult the dictionary. Yes, indeed, faith is ours. Religious people may try to hijack words like faith, or ethics, but that is just pure bullshit.

Your post here reminds me of a statistic that I heard that American passport issuance is at an all time low. It used to be that people travelled overseas to reconnect with relatives (in Europe, more often than the other continents) but it seems now that Americans just want to stay here in this cracked out, whacked out, fake-paradise with golden streets.

They can have it...! I'd much rather be a citizen of the universe with you. Does that make us 'space cadets'?

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Emil wrote:
>Woke up wondering what faith is...
>You know, true faith. Is it a religious privilege, or can anyone have faith... in anything, in anyone?
>I can't help but feel a bit disconnected from "faith" being non-religious, even anti-religious- especially in these uncertain times during which extreme opposing dogmas continue to destabilize our sense of balance no matter where in the world we happen to have been born or dropped.
>In a sense the word "faith" has come to feel a bit rattling to me. I can't help but sort of shuffle away from it, in a subtle, reverent, quiet way.
>Hope is what I am most comfortable having. Not faith.
>Hope is what I strive for each morning, and throughout every living moment.
>Hope, I feel, is more for me, and people like me- the rest of us. Those of us who are trying to make our way through the hassles and hurdles set before us by the ruling fanatics.
>Yes, I was born in Iran, but I do not share the same faith as Muslims. Yes, I was brought up Christian, as Assyrians converted to Christianity some centuries ago, but I do not feel embraced by Christianity, nor do I feel I need to be a Christian to be a good, fair, upstanding son, friend, brother, "citizen"; on the contrary I feel threatened by a Christian America that continues to bully its way throughout the world and oppress immigrants and homosexuals alike here on American soil.
>Keep your faith- Iran, America.
>Keep your "Us Vs. Them" mentality.
>Keep your wealth, your greed, your power.
>Keep your National Security I.D. Cards.
>Keep your patriotism.
>Your prejudices.
>Your propaganda.
>Your CNN News.
>Your spins and your lies.
>I have my own faith: Hope.
>Hope in us- all of us.
>Hope in knowing that wealth and power are an illusion.
>Hope that no matter what card I carry in my wallet that I am a child of the universe- a universe that does not know or care what gender I am, or whether I am Muslim or Christian, rich or poor, a citizen of here or of "over there".
>I choose my own citizenship, my own identity. My body, my soul. And I am the moment's citizen, of here, of now, of all of earth and stars, whether YOU happen to think so or not!



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