Goddamn Damn Dirty Apes

As of late I have been struggling with a way to express my frustration with living in a monotheistic world. Everyday I feel my self at war with a world that coddles those who put an irrational allegiance to a non-existent god before the fate of their fellow human being. On an episode of Wife Swap the other night that paired Militant Christians with hard left peaceniks, the Militant Christian child was drawing bombs and tanks while his mother was brought to tears by what she described as the hard leftists hate filled words for her "faith". She did not see the irony that it is the god fearing who perfected hatred. Be it self loathing, fear of the other or hatred of those who interpret the same goddamn book in a slightly different way. After the events of September 11th we have realised that our new enemies are people like Osama bin Laden who would kill thousands in the name of faith. Unfortunately, in the minds of the vast majority of Americans this only holds true if these men of faith call their god, allah. We don't seem to realise that any human being that puts the sacredness of their god over the sanctity of the lives of their fellow human beings is an enemy of all humankind. We continue to coddle these guerilla's in our midst. Heaven forbid we criticise the Fundamentalist Christians who pray to their god for the death of their fellow man. Never mind the Orthodox Jews who send their money off to Israel because the preservation of the home of god's chosen people is more important to them then the preservation of a human life that isn't a Jewish one. These are our enemies as much as al Queda is, as much as the Taliban is, even as much as Osama bin Laden is. Furthermore, what of the Moderate Christians, Jews and Muslims. where is their outcry as their precious faith is hijacked. Oh yeah, that's right. The dirty secret of the faith's of Judea. They tolerate these fascists because they line the coffer's of the faith's of Abraham and what are the middle eastern religions if not first and foremost, money changers. I long for the day when not only reason but also compassion rules the day. Compassion for all, not merely those that worship one's god in the precise and accurate ways that one's scripture has put forth. I long for a day when compassion for all human life is the primary guiding light of all humanity. Wake me when the the sun has risen on that new world, for until then you shall find me asleep to the suffering of my fellow human being.