Wednesday, May 6

Meanderings off to the Side

So maybe some people are saying "Yaayyy!!! Thank God the Christians were defeated!" But personally, if I had the choice between constrained, but hetero, Xians or man-hating lesbian feminists then it would not be the latter that I would prefer.

Strange, you may think, because my people have been fighting a war of survival against the Xians for a thousand years. You may have noticed me use these sort of terms before, and make reference to the thousand year reign of terror that Xianity has put Europe (and Europeans) under, or refer to the tens of millions that Xianity has murdered in this millennia long nightmare. And that is just of my race, world-wide they have probably murdered more than a hundred million; easily making them the most evil religion on Earth, but not the most evil concept - Socialism has murdered at least three times more people in just the last one century, Moa's Red Terror (also called the 'Cultural Revolution') claimed nearly two hundred million.

I mention this, that is the stuff about my thousand year enemies, because I was collected something interesting from the Taoist Cultural Centre yesterday. Yes, I finally got to talk to someone about Chinese religion!!! Went to the temple complex on Bedok North Avenue 4 to see if I could see someone from the Taoist Federation, that didn't quite happen, but two girls from the cultural centre talked to me and showed me around and then a priest joined us and explained some things and then I spoke to an academic at the cultural centre and got a free copy of the Tao book - which is itself presenting me with problems.

Anyhow, I go this little plastic card holder with a 'Declaration of Religious Harmony' written on the back. This is so hard to come to terms with when I have this history of a millennia of oppression behind me. I just cannot 'calm down' when it comes to the Xian/Judean/Islamic construct, and for me that expands to include Baha'i, Druze, Sikh directly, and Buddhism indirectly. So, adjusting to Singapore's requirement for social harmony may be a little difficult for me, whereas in Australia I (and all other followers of our original European religion) may have been brutally oppressed, but at least I had grown comfortable with my anger.

Also can't help but notice that the IRO covers ten religions, but does not include any form of faith native to the Aryan/European/Caucasian people. Just this assumption by outsiders that all white people are Xian. Even at the Taoist Cultural Centre when I started to speak about the religious structure and history of our people I would get asked if I was not Xian, to which I would calmly reply no, I am not, and further it is not a natural religion of our people, but rather an outside construct (not mentioning though that it was forced upon our race by centuries of violence and murder).

So if I do stay in Singers then it shall force upon me a higher level of social maturity. Am I up to this?

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