Fear and Loathing

People seem reluctant to want to believe in anything but themselves, reluctant to raise the people around them yet worship a pop star, willing to hate unseen but not to love.

Humanity is special. We have been given the gift of intelligence and free will. I am a somewhat spiritual person and one of my own goals is to reconcile that which is of man with that which is of God. Perhaps reconcile is the wrong word. One cannot reconcile imperfection with perfection as far as I know. I split my understanding of the universe in two ways: spiritual, scientific. While I take some pride in the capabilities of my fellow man to study, observe and reason out why things are as they are, I also believe there are things man can never fully understand, problems that he can never solve. These are things of God.

Mostly these "things" do not overlap, but people try to FORCE them to overlap. This causes a rift in those who believe science should be everyone's religion versus those who believe science cannot explain everything - and should not TRY to explain everything. People want to believe in themselves, their own capabilities to master the universe around them.

Idol worship. There are people all around us who deserve to be praised and lifted up before their fellow man and God for the work they do day-in-day-out. People who work hard to provided for their families, who stay home to teach their children what they need to know to survive, who bake for a neighbor who is ill... these people are REAL. Their strengths and weaknesses can be experienced and appreciated in real time. I find it appalling that people will ignore the magnificent epics unraveling all around them in favor of someone they have never met in life and weep for in death.

Finally I am not sure what to make of the fact that many people are willing to hate entire populations on the other side of the world, yet not love. Two sides of the same coin. I understand that it is human nature to focus ONLY on those who are immediately important to them, and to neatly pack away the thoughts of starving children in Africa or some other place (even here in our own country). Out of sight, out of mind. Yet it seems easy enough for people to climb onto the bandwagon of hate when a country bad mouths our ways or religions.

Is there no hope for us as a race?