I've opened Face Book again to yet more religious s and M. How not nice for a breakfast at 11am. And talking of food, it seems that the big issue has translated itself into religious dogma now. Two girls are responsible for this, two totally unrelated girls, well, related by one thing... extra weight. And no it's not me this time. And I won't be following suit. Because this has begun to look like a fetish now. And while I might be into a lot of them (the fetishes), this is one which really doesn't take my fancy. So let's talk about the girls. One who had a marriage fetish, and finally after 40 years of looking (you see all of you who hold the marriage fetish, never despair) and being hooked up, she's become a saint. She now dismisses all her sex stunts as 'the silly sins of our youth'. Now if I had to do that, I'd be going straight to heaven with wings which would support me. Silly sins of our youth, she's not talking about fibbing to mum at 16, lying and saying that the bus stopped somewhere, hence the being late. That is a silly sin. I'm not sure if getting it on with a priest can be deemed as a silly sin, but as I write it now becomes very clear.. the clergy, hence religious, hence God loving. So marriage made her obsessed with God, and it's not an I wonder why at all. That means it becomes we can eat ourselves to death and be merry because God loves us anyway. And who is hubby to complain with God's wishes? Nobody of course. Now I understand, although it's complex, but I still understand.
Then there's the other one, another God preacher who, by the preachings she posts, seems to have a lot of enemies, and thinks that the world is a war zone. But she says she is blessed. Of course she is if you see it in her perspective. What did she want for? Kids. And she's got two. Black kids, that's what she wanted, and that is what she got. Perfectly healthy kids. Why shouldn't she feel blessed? And she didn't even go to the trouble of getting married. Yet if she's as religious as she proclaims herself to be, going on and on about being blessed because her kids are her life, and thank you God for the kids, and you see she feels blessed by God now. Can't she spare a thought for other people who have not had it that easy in the baby stakes? What would a woman desperately trying for a baby feel when reading all of that? Well, despair would be one. Because it's fine saying to never lose faith in God, but when statistics show you otherwise what do you do? Say thank you God for not giving me the baby I would love? Come on, it doesn't work that way. And it doesn't work that way not because we are sinners, but because we are humans. And human beings... are humans after all.
Then there's the other one, another God preacher who, by the preachings she posts, seems to have a lot of enemies, and thinks that the world is a war zone. But she says she is blessed. Of course she is if you see it in her perspective. What did she want for? Kids. And she's got two. Black kids, that's what she wanted, and that is what she got. Perfectly healthy kids. Why shouldn't she feel blessed? And she didn't even go to the trouble of getting married. Yet if she's as religious as she proclaims herself to be, going on and on about being blessed because her kids are her life, and thank you God for the kids, and you see she feels blessed by God now. Can't she spare a thought for other people who have not had it that easy in the baby stakes? What would a woman desperately trying for a baby feel when reading all of that? Well, despair would be one. Because it's fine saying to never lose faith in God, but when statistics show you otherwise what do you do? Say thank you God for not giving me the baby I would love? Come on, it doesn't work that way. And it doesn't work that way not because we are sinners, but because we are humans. And human beings... are humans after all.
