The Bastards.

How much do we really believe in God? According to the religious people, not even a leaf can move unless it is God’s will. If God has been given that kind of powers, then why an innocent child who has no control or a say in his/her birth, has been penalized and stigmatized throughout the religious world.

He/she is called bastard and unacceptable in the general populations. Civilization has brought in the marriage and related rules, usually created by the religions. These rules have been the foundations of our social traditions and customs. Our traditions and customs have been that powerful, that we still can’t change or even raise voice against them. These customs and traditions can be extremely harsh against the individual even he/she is an innocent.

Religions are spouse to be spiritual entities, they should stand by and help the vulnerable and stand against the injustice. The religions teache the truth but this truth is so bitter it can give bad taste for generations. The bastards get shunned for life or even their generations for the crime they have never committed. Hindu religion has been especially horrible for the widows, the tradition sati which makes the wife of the dead husband to be burn alive with the corps of the husband.

For whatever reason, whether it is religious or political, if we do an injustice to someone, especially when he/she is an innocent, it should be classified as a spiritual crime.

Today we can stand for the human rights, but in the villages of the world these crimes are still happening. From the prejudice to racism to our holy wars they all are the black mark on the face of humanity.

If you believe that nothing can happen without the God’s will then why do we punish people of their wrong doing, especially the punishments like death penalty or flogging, and why our wrong doings are changing with our evolving knowledge?

Slavery, prejudice and racism has been a way of our lives, today these are unacceptable in educated societies. The closer to religions you are, stricter you are, every wonder why? Is it that you don’t have the understanding or you intentionally ignore the real things religions preach, like compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. Maybe you just don’t have the capacity to really, really, really believe in God, or plain and simple you just want the control over the general population. What is it? what does make you penalize and call bustards to the most vulnerable and the innocents of the society.

If God is doing everything then where does the individual stand, or even the society of the human beings stand. Anyone who punishes an innocent is committing a spiritual crime especially when it comes to a baby. Human has been born the same way since the beginning. If you really look at the history, we can all be called the generations of the bastards, because the religions just came around few thousand years ago and we have been around for millions or God knows billions of years.

This evolution in our knowledge has been, is and will always be a learning process, so it is time to clear out some of the traditional garbage or I should say spiritual crimes we have been committing as societies.

No innocent should be punished, because of our traditions and customs. Law and order or governing systems should be clearly separated from our belief systems and based on the equal human rights. Individual rights should be respected in all human societies equally because these are related to the spirituality. Human rights should surpass all religions, isms and governing systems especially when it comes to punishing the innocents.

Canadian history shows that aboriginals have been mistreated by both, religious and the political systems. Government has apologized few years beck and the demand is to ask pope to apologize as well. The understanding here should be, that the religious extreme compels people as a group or as an individual to cross the lines of decencies, yet with passionate convictions. It is because we are taught by our groups that we are always right, our actions should be according to the rules of our belonging groups. If an individual is a CEO of his/her life, he/she would question on the name of humanity otherwise these kind of failures would never stop.
Human rights commissions should have the power to make everyone promise, that it can never happen again. I believe any traumatic experience especially as a child, leaves marks for life. Even one depressed individual is hard to treat with the medication and or counselling, how can you treat the depressed nations?

United nation has to have the mandate to resolve the conflicts as they start, you can’t sweep these kind of things under the rug and expect they will go away. If you look at the history or even present day conflicts, they are the breading grounds for the mental health issues.
In reality if you dig in, the atrocities against the innocent individuals have been and are committed all over the world all the time. Some for the piece of land and some on the name of God. Hiding behind all that is the politics of the sense of belonging. There is a victim and a predator in every nation who has committed atrocities.
How far should one dig? Ganges Khan comes to mind, who conquered a city in China, killed everyone in it, beheaded them made a mountain of their heads and rode his horse to the top. Chinese came out of it and getting to the top of the world, I don’t recall they asked an apology from the Mongols. Apologies alone don’t do anything because healing starts with the promise of never again.
Self assertion, sense of equal rights, not self harm or disrespect, because the past of human beings have been full of the animalistic actions.

As humanity we need to acknowledge our past, at times we have been worse than the baboons or the chimps. All nations have been, are and will always be evolving. I hope we can overcome our sense of belonging to our groups and learn to belong to the humanity as a whole. These kind of atrocities can stay as part of the past or as stepping stones of our evolution, so we never have to look for the apologies for such spiritual crimes.

My logic says since all jobs are related to help each other, for instance if you are sick you need a doctor, a doctor needs a plumber, a plumber needs a mechanic and a mechanic needs a teacher and so on. An individual who is working, is helping the humanity even he/she is getting paid. Since the paying person is getting helped, he/she is paying to help back.

We keep the ball rolling for the humanity, thus we all are God’s work horses. If you have learnt to see God in the next person, you would be able to see with your spiritual eyes everything else.

I am trying to show that there is a disconnect in the religion related traditions and customs. The intensions may be good but treating someone with an attitude that you are better than them and you are saving them from being bad, yet your own actions are clearly related with prejudice.

In the case of the bastards or widows, that disconnect is most prevalent in the religious societies. If people know that they are doing something which is against their religion they still do it but undercover. The fear can lead to even more spiritual crimes and anything done in fear of the religion is on the shoulders of the religious authorities. If it is not related to the belief systems it is related to the politics of control.
If its in the politics of control, it should not be connected to the God or spirituality.

If its in the belief system, then it should be looked at as God’s will thus really, really, and I mean really believe, that it is God’s doing because if you believe even a leaf can’t move on its own, how can a baby be born without the God’s will.

My point is that, if we don’t understand clearly we can’t be passionately killing or punishing someone harshly. Imagine if we find out, that we have been doing the wrong things to innocents. Like labelling innocents with the words of bastards or blaming the widows of their husbands deaths or in the modern world giving a the death penalty.

Sure when someone is charged with a crime he/she should do the time, but killing someone intentionally even as a society, we should know we can’t kill an innocent individual because there is a chance for that. That chance even if it is a small chance it should be enough to stop the capital punishment. I can’t say enough that punishing someone innocent is a spiritual crime.

If you are passionate about it, always remember don’t do to anyone, what you don’t like getting done to you. Our knowledge has been is and will always be evolving so our rights and wrongs can even reverse with the evolution.

Ask yourself in the dead of the night, do you really believe in God? if you come up with not really, then ask again, and again and then decide. Should you be passionate about your knowledge and even if your knowledge is really yours. Maybe you are influenced by the sense of belonging and you are simply speaking the language of your belonging group. If you are speaking your belonging group’s language then what about you? Are you just an extension of an ideology or an independent entity? If you still don’t believe what I am hinting towards, then what about your free will, you use it everyday. That is why I believe you are designed for a CEO. As a CEO you use your free will everyday but why don’t you use it in the matters of your belief system? Are you worried that you will go to hell and would not be allowed to go to heaven. Figuratively and logically hell and heaven is going to be because of your personal character, not just because of your belonging to certain religion.

Our ethics and morality is usually taught by our religions, which means politics of the religion will dictate what is right and what is wrong. Pope has changed his tune after thousands of years of discrimination against the human rights. Today the rights of the religions have been proven wrong thus they want to politically exist and be relevant in individual’s life. After thousands of years of conforming powers and disregarding human rights the time has turned on them and now they have to be conformed to the human rights.

Since we are all the CEOs of our lives and are the third equation, we should have our own personal and individual ethics and morality so we can take our responsibilities and stand with our own principles.

Today human rights are the new spiritual religion, I repeat spiritual religion, which goes beyond the boundaries of all nations, religions and human groups or societies. Have your personal ethics and morality clearly defined and connected to the spirituality, just like a computer is connected to an internet.

According to the personal spirituality, you can try to live guilt free and with the responsibilities of a CEO, it is possible and it can be done with or without the religions. No one has to change his/her religion just stop following the religious politics you will find your personal spirituality.