May 22

It is the day after, the day where for some, the beginning of the end was to have started, and the day after the end of days was to have begun. It is the day after, for those who believe in a God, very human like, was to have punished those he created in his image and destroy a place he so coveted and cared for. It is the day after many a man and woman, stopped believing in the future and dwelt on the here and now waiting for the Rapture to seduce them into a heaven with room for only a select few, selected by their merits of hate, discrimination, bias and bigotry.

God for some is great, for some God is greedy, for some God is a matter of imagination, for some God is the validation for devaluing, degrading and discarding the value and viability of other humans with which we share this Earth. God for some does not exist, God for some is why we exist, for some God is the scapegoat necessary to understand why we should and could hate without any hesitation. God for some is truth, purity, honesty and piety, for others God is reason to strive for a better life, but before the better life happens, others must be eliminated and recognized as a hindrance in achieving that life.

God for some is recognizable in how we give, receive, and share. God for some is seen in the actions we perform and the intentions we admit. For some God is the voice that reminds us that different is bad, equal is wrong, and some people will never be like us. For some, God speaks with a very structured tongue, with very strict rules and very little room for compromise or consensus. For some, God will never be happy unless each and every one of us is exactly alike. For some God is miracles and we are on Earth to create our own miracles just like God.

We have heard from those who knew that the end of days would begin on May 21, that God was unhappy with Gays, or minorities, or Jews, or women demanding reproductive rights. We heard Scripture read with venom and vehemence as to the evils existing on Earth. And we heard CERTAIN verses recited that clearly if you think anything murky is clear, why there are the chosen to be raptured into heaven and the rest to rot in Hell. We heard even when we didn't want to listen that some of us are good and most of us are bad!

May 21 has come and gone. Perhaps for some we bit the bullet, perhaps for others the gun really wasn't loaded with all the bullets and like a game of Russian roulette we should play another round to find our fate. May 21 has come and gone but the hate that was to be ended, the vile and vitriol surrounding all of us each and every day, the blame and bias still remain. And it seems to me we still face the horrors of extinction, the shallowness of humankind, and the end of fair and decent days if ALL of us don't stop and take responsibility and reverse the road of life we walk.

For some we speak about God but never listen, for some we define God as told to us by others, for some we don't care about God, but then don't care about much else either. For some May 21 was a laughing matter, silly people hating and using religion as their rationale. For some the joke will continue but will be less funny and more serious as why and what we hate will grow and grow.

Now that it is May 22, what is next? What is it we need to do stop man made doom and destruction?