Free Spirit; Response!

As long as you use the word Jesus no one will ever see who you really are! By proclaiming it and preaching it every day they think no one can see their face. They're ignorance shows only to those who truly see. The ones that are blind to it are so because they hide under the same mask. They are not humble, or humbled. They are arrogant and judgmental, to the point where sometimes they don't even see it. By then it's usually too late to go back.

They brainwash and corrupt, start wars with the world and right in their own families. Some know what they do, and excuse anything they do that could be taken in a negative way, with the name of the lord.
By doing so the outside world only sees "good", "Christians", the cliché'.

They don't care who they hurt, because they feel they are enlightened in ways no one else could ever be. They are self absorbed.
The ones that are quiet and gentle like an elderly couple from the elderly church, they don't disrespect, they aren't obnoxious, they don't hurt and try to spread to gospel like people are deaf. I respect everything on this earth, even my enemies, for I am not them. I am me. I must always be me. Yet it is so very hard to give respect when they are so cruel.

They treat us like we are dumb, lost, and blind. We need pity, saving, help, and prayer. I'm not deaf, you and everyone that's important to me knows that. That is all that matters. What they don't see is, the way they feel crucified when a religious hate group or anti Christian person blatantly puts them down, kills, or hurts them in any way... it is exactly the way they make me feel every day.

They crucify me, disrespect me and mourn for me, when in all reality, well, they don't see reality. They start their very own holy wars. It gives them ego. And it rubs against their very own beliefs. The beliefs they think people like you and I know nothing about, when in all reality I know the bible through and through, as well as many other religions and what they hold dear. But they are the only real word; so that is all that matters to them.

You spoke the truth right here... "Religion should be kept personal and lived by that person. Otherwise we diminish the very reason this country was started, freedom from any one tyranny! Let’s leave things like the inquisitions in the past and be at peace with each person’s unique beauty!"

The way they "forgive" people like us because "we know not what we do", places us on a cross. They ostracize us, the way their lord was ostracized. They nail our hands, the way their lords were nailed. They look at us while we bleed by their own hands, and still, cover it all, to themselves and the world, in the name of good. In the name of their God. They treat themselves and everyone around them like they have more rights. More of everything internal. After all, how could people like us possibly have anything, without the Christian God? We are missing everything. How could we possibly know life?

I've never had a single problem, personally, with anyone be them Christian or not in my life... but now-- when I am (hopefully) elderly, and awaiting my physical end, and still believe what I do, see what I see, feel what I feel-- I know what is real. I know what is moral. I have nothing to prove.

I could sit here and preach to them, but I can't be like that. I can't be like them. I could tell them they are wrong, but I don't want to say things that will make them feel pain. We, people like us, lay quiet in simplicity and depth, we stay calm and happy in our hearts and spirits, and then these people, they run at us with anger and hatred. Holding weapons of the cross to save us with.

Well, I can give them one thing, they teach me patience. That I mustn't be cruel. I mustn't get angry. I must have control and just keep loving. Though I rebuke such things and people from being in my life and trying to tear who I am, down. They bring me nothing but negativity. I wont allow it any longer. I remain a free spirit, and always will. With lots of love, privacy, solitude, kindness, calmness, and quietness. In all truth... their hurtful actions, words, and forced "guidance", has shown me strength and control, it gives me more wisdom. They open my eyes more, to all the good and bad around us. They are teaching me; let's just leave it at that. All I need is love and compassion, and I must hold it close, and never let people with their "cause" taint my personality and my heart. Ever.

"To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know."~Hsin Hsin Ming