Why Religion Makes The Worst Hallmark Cards

Greeting cards
share a moment of connection about special events.

Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, graduations. 
Milestones that matter. 

 
However, the "Hallmark card" of popular religions
are a very special kind of dark. 


They divide us into people-groups of unequal worth
and incompatible goals.

In their view, there's always the "us" who have 'secured' infinite worth through the sharing of a Super-Parent's "radiant glory" and approval.

But then there's everyone else;
 who (if they died right now) would die "unwashed" and thus unfit for perfect health and eternal being.

To justify that difference of value,
such religions will literally 'blame the victims';
 for not "freely choosing" to be compatible with true light and true love.

That is, of course, neither loving and nor fair.

Their offer of "grace" means
"undeserved kindness".

So then we aught to beg for scraps of love at Father's table, as wretched lowly sinners who don't (yet) deserve a proper seat and a full plate.


It appeals most strongly to people who lack for self-respect.

And why?

Because "We accept the love
we think we deserve".


I could not, in good conscience, ever support telling a CHILD that they are worthless;
not even so I could sell them into mental slavery as a "solution"
for the problem I'd be creating for them. 


I could not, in good conscience, tell a child that the abusive "Father" in bible-stories is real and "loves them".


I could not,
in good conscience,
set a child up for a life time of bad relationships; with others and with their own self. 


I could not, in good conscience, help religious mafias BLIND a precious and vulnerable human being to the truth of US and the truth of SELF; 
leaving them unable to see past the REASONS for the "choices" I'd be maneuvering them into making. 


If we think scraps are more than we deserve, then that's what we beg for.

And then those will be the kinds of "relationships" we keep dumpster-diving into, literally self-sacrificing for, and then losing ourselves in.

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