Irreverently Relevant

As with any doctrine crafted by man, religion has proven to bear the same moral inadequecies exhibited throughout human history. In many of man's holy books, there is evidence of murder, genocide, revenge killing and worse. There is ample justification for crimes of moral turpitude, and still more justification for punishing the same in fascinatingly barbarous ways. Just as humanity has evolved in thinking, so has the interpretation of religious text, but, with the caveat that any alteration in religious text changes what the attributed creator figure meant to say.  One of the most literal religions is Islam. Created by an Arab religious, social, and political leader who the world knows as the prophet Muhammad (whose image remains censored for some reason of hadith-er), Islam dominates the lives of entire populations thought the middle East of Asia, Northern Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia. As the regular Muslim would say, it is a way of life. With such lofty proclamations comes the...

For the American who wants to blow up Satan's anus. Also, Satan is a figment of your religious imagination.

Racism is a seemingly indelible stain lodged deep into the human fabric. In a tumultuous history of the seemingly most sophisticated ape, humanity has crafted an "us vs them" mentality throughout its evolutionary development. While racism in its modern form has been established as a phenomenon arising through the European age of imperiarism. It is a scourge that has vested roots all across the world, and that, even among communities of the same racial background, is manifested as tribalism. The Rwandan genocide (Apr 7, 1994 – Jul 15, 1994) was a systematic massacre triggered by Juvenal Habyarimana's assassination (which also resulted in the death of Burundi's Hutu president, Cyprian Ntaryamira) on April 6, 1994. The resulting power vacuum, coupled with festering undercurrents of hate, led to a sustained and brutal campaign if violence that directly led to more than 500,000 deaths.⁵ While accounts of  Rwandan genocide are lengthy, it is quite evident that poisoned root...

  They know it, surely, they know, 'tis true, I tell you, they know, of the hunger in the land, they know, of the anger in the land they know: from the snow-capped mountains' peaks, to the legislature where insanity leaks, the voice is loud, the resonance is clear, the citizen no longer is held dear. The votes were counted, the seats were filled, the oaths were taken, the candidates were thrilled, for the people they vowed to stand, yea, for every person that tills the land, but the tales of valor they told, so grand, became like unsalted fish, so truly bland, the enemies rose up from all the land, of imaginary threats, they sung in the land; look around, the sorrow is palpable, in the land indeed, the fear is tangible, the tears on the fabric of a nation torn by leaders whose ideas by time are worn: the mirror is broken, but still it reflects the image of a people impaired by defects created by leaders whose greed perfects the ruin of a nation and its grave effects. In every s...

Genesis Proverbs 22:6 -  Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Thus does the story begin, for, from childhood, mine was a mind conditions to believe everything taught within the confines of conservative presbyterianism. Growing up in the relative tranquility of an "average sized" town in Central Kenya, that was the center of my universe. Nyeri was my entire world, and Nairobi was the big city which I always viewed with big, envious eyes. My dreams were to own a big house in Nairobi, teach at Nairobi University, and have a beautiful wife. As we very well acknowledge (those who have lived past 30 anyway), life doesn't always work according to a set schedule, if it ever does anyway. God, our father, made everything, and kept an eye on everything. He was the absolute center of everything, and life on earth played to his whims. He gave life, he took away life. We were all born sinful, and, by his ascent to earth, and birth of ...

     The reason silence will never reign      is that the noise in the heart is rain, music is on the myriad canopies of an array of a cast of nations, yes, we refuse to be broken, we rise up for they who rise, for the this tune is overpowering, 'tis the song of pure freedom; it takes the teardrop in the wide open eyes of a child whose sorrowful, upturned face stares at me in a questioning gaze, a face unimpressed by the dazzle of the rising of the tottering phase of leaders whose lack of clout does amaze: I hear the voices in the crowd, "O' Ichabod!" I hear the cries of the desperate, "O' Ichabod!" The voices are strong, tho' some are hushed, but the resolve in them will not be crushed; "No! Ichabod! No Ichabod!" Ichabod must not be born tonight for in the distance I see the light, of a presence that will rise to rule this land - this land that the just will rule. (gsk) © Ichabod  ( Hebrew :  אִיכָבוֹד ‎  ʼīyḵāḇōḏ , –  without glory , o...