"Freedom"

I have seen and heard a lot of comments about freedom lately; freedom of speech, religion, peaceful assembly and many others. Churches are protesting at funerals of fallen soldiers saying that their deaths are the result of God’s judgment of our nation’s view of gay rights. Murders have been committed in the battle of the right to an abortion. AIDS has also been considered by the church a judgment of God because of the gay community. Rock and roll music is of the devil and so on. I can’t think of one single war that has not been about religion in some way. When will all of this come to an end?

What distinguishes God’s love from any other love is that He has given everyone of us the freedom of choice. To me, that is amazing! That is love in its purest form! Humankind has always worshipped some kind of God and historically, in many at the same time. This really hasn’t changed throughout time. Humankind has always had a feeling that there is someone or something greater than themselves lurking in the shadows. Understanding this has been the greatest challenge as well as accepting it within the different and diverse cultures.

This freedom of choice God has blessed us with is more involved than most “religious fanatics” realize. If God has granted us such an abounding freedom, then doesn’t it make sense that there should be no judgment from our peers? Do our choices make us any better or worse than anyone else? Just because we don’t see things from your perspective, does that doom us to hell?

You don’t protest at funerals of fallen soldiers who have fought and died so you can have that freedom to do so. Rock and roll is no more from the devil than the “cheatin, cheatin, cheatin, drinkin, drinkin, drinkin” country music that a great many have grown to love and the same goes for rap music, poetry, literature and any other artistic form of expression. None of this is of the devil! It is of humankind! It is of emotions felt, experiences gained, loves lost, tears shed and joys shared. It is about difficult time, joyous times and every imaginable thing under the sun.

Judge no one for the choices they have made for sometimes, there is no choice. We all have freedom of choice, even the freedom to judge, but judge only yourself for the choices you have made. I don’t think any God worth their love would have it any other way. It just doesn’t make any sense. Try walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. Then raise those shoes and look at the “souls” of those shoes and you will see this shit that they have been through. Only then will you appreciate God’s purest form of love, the freedom of choice!