Sitting down inside
Funny to see
recently on Face Book the fact that Richard Dawkins is wondering if we need
Christianity as it is not blowing people up, or saying that those that do not
believe should be killed. Maybe he needs
to take an even deeper look.
What really
puzzles me Is why people think that a forced acceptance of something, means
that I or anyone else has really accepted that premise, belief, thought. What a silly idea.
It also
puzzles me that people think that if you are not allowed to speak something
different to their point of view, their perspective then that is fine, they
must be right, again what nonsense.
Yet this is
our world, people have views that I don’t agree with, lifestyles that I think
are wrong, attitudes that I think that if followed by lots of people will lead
to their destruction and sometime the destruction of lots of others too,
however I am not allowed to say opposite to what is the P.C. position, my view
must not be heard? Now does that mean that the argument, position, life style
of the others is so wrong that they cannot bear to hear anything opposite to
what they have chosen right or wrong?
I joined a
political party once, just to go along to the meetings and understand how they
thought and how it worked. I tried to
sit at the back and keep quite. One day
they announced that they had made a terrible mistake, they had invited someone
to speak to the meeting, and discovered he was a member of another party. They
said obviously they could not listen
to him. I being very naïve asked a
question, this was my question, “Why are you afraid to listen to another point
of view or perspective, is our own position, argument, perspective, so weak
that we cannot possible listen to someone we might disagree with and
disagreeing with him come to understand our position, thoughts are after all are better? He is not from our party was the answer! “yes but does that mean we
cannot hear what he has to say”? The
answer again, “you don’t understand, he is not a member of our party and so he
will say what we don’t agree with so we can’t hear that”? I gave up!
So we live
in a world where people are being killed because they disagree, don’t believe
what you believe cannot possible hear even a view that is different from the
party line. So this year in Brunei,
Somalia, Tajikistan all banned Christmas celebrations as it might damage the
thinking of the rest of the population apparently it was because of fear that
people would be led astray. I wonder how weak the thinking of those people is?
I remember
one of those stories, apparently a little boy was would not sit down at the
meal table, he was only small and insisted on standing to eat, I think his
opinion was that the food went down better that way. His Father got really upset and kept trying
to make him sit down remonstrating with him with many words. The little boy refused, in the end the Father
got fed up with discussion and arguments, and putting his hand on the little
boys head pushed the little boy down until he was sitting. The little boy looked at his Father and
recognised that he definitely was stronger than him, but then he said, “Dad, I
know that you have got me sitting down at this table, but I want you to know I
am actually standing up inside!
There is a
lot of us around that are actually standing up inside!
W. 642
Adrian Hawkes.blogspot.com
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