February 25, 2024 – A

Indigenous spirituality has it right
on all points,
starting with No Sin,
if you can imagine that.

Religion without sin.
What kind of religion is that?

Religion from the bottom up
and the inside out,
not something handed to us by the priests
and the experts,
not something hinging on Right Belief,
but flowing from the truth of personal experience.

How much of Colonialist Religion
is grounded on separating us from our experience
and gluing us to counter-intuitive,
self-denying,
trust-us-to-tell-you-how-is Blah-Blah
that makes no sense whatsoever?

Talking snakes.
How someone can sin for someone else
(i.e. Adam and Eve), and
How someone can atone for someone else's sin
(Jesus of Nazareth).
And why God would create people
who are going to disappoint him
and cause him to hate them forever
when he could just get it right
on the production line
and everyone would live happily ever after...

No one would come up with something like 
the power-hungry with the need for total domination
would invent and say,
"You're going to hell if you don't do it
like we tell you to do it!"

Indigenous peoples around the world
have a better idea
and they don't kill heretical heathens
who don't think like they do.

And the environment would be
a lot better off 
with them at the helm.

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