just a quick one

something's been bothering me for the last few minutes: king james. to clarify, i mean the King James version of the Bible. all the "thee"s and "thou"s and such. this has become a venue of authority in popular forms of religious texts.

when somesort of god is envoked in popular texts, there is a "thy suffering" or some such business woven in, even if it isn't a christian god that's at issue.

i was reading FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, and in the first chapter, the sun god Leto can "save thee from all thy sins" through prayer and faith.

it feels like this mode of speech is used to create the image that the dialogue of god can only be accessed by the initiated, the ordained, the learned, so forth to be called the clergy.

i dislike organized religion. and communists. deeply. deeper than a bullet burried in a wall that was fired through a body at point blank range by a magnum. such is my hate. there exists one and only one statement with which i'll share with karl marx: "religion is the opiate of the masses." enough with communism now.

if i were to subscribe to any form of religion, it would be protestantism. i choose the protestant faith for the following reason alone: personal interepretation of the text at hand- the bible. PERSONAL BLOODY INTERPRETATION! if i choose to believe in an invisible man, than i'll do it my own way, if i do so please.

if we are all god's children, then why must i become clergy in order to have a deeper relation with god? what about that makes one more special than the other?

main point being, i feel like this dialogue of "thee"s and "thou"s is used to distance, rather than to bring closer together, which is what, arguably, any given religion is supposed to do.

if i see god in a spoon, i'll talk to the spoon any way i like.

[originally posted 8/26/06]