Convoluted Morality

I'd like to bounce that controversial "football" kicked around by convenience and self righteousness, the virtue of the human race in it's act of survival, the antidote of chaos and anarchy, that little word differentiating man from animal called morality.

Morality, is an inner conviction of man to behave decently and honorably to divorce right from wrong, just from unjust, to set him free from petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. The word that assures the perpetuation of the species and sets standards of rightness, fairness or equity, and social justice because without them it denies it's own existence. If we all steal, rape, murder, torture, commit adultery and lie the very institution of society crumbles.

I am not an expert on religion but the "ten commandments" states all those virtues necessary for survival of man. Moses was a very wise man, surrounded by a large disoriented tribe before he went up the mountain. He knew he needed to establish laws to guide his people. Perhaps they didn't have excellent carving tools and it took him forty days to carve those laws in stone to make believe that God gave them to him, to force this disobedient tribe that betrayed a god every week, to obey. But basically it was common sense.

We're born and through experience acknowledge right from wrong, good from evil, decent from indecent, honor from dishonor. When we first burn ourselves, we know it hurts and we wouldn't burn someone else because he/she may burn us back...
There is nothing in the Bible about our sexuality except "Thou shalt not commit adultery" which translates to "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" because our neighbor may covet our wife. These are strict norms of living in a tribe or human community. Morality is based on what somebody’s conscience suggests is right or wrong, rather than on what the law says should be done.

What is really interesting how people interpret this notion by the interest of their journey toward self realization and bend the rules to serve them in their quest to submit others to their power. And all is done in the sacred name of God and Morality.

The religious right shrouds itself in contradictions about morality. They preach attack of the abortion clinics, preach to kill doctors who perform abortions, subscribe to capital punishment and basically lie, treat believers with usury; call for the death penalty in a wide range of crimes, including abandonment of the faith, blasphemy, heresy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, sodomy, homosexuality, striking a parent and ''unchastity before marriage'' (but for women only) all in the name of morality just to convince the believers that they "love life."

Their hate and thirst for blood and punishment is unequalled throughout history. They side with a government that pushes people into poverty because they can sell their religion better to people stricken by poverty and disillusion. But it's all business. The business of selling a new God against the teachings of christian scripture: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. "

They (the hypocrites) convicted Bill Clinton in the court of public opinion as the biggest sinner and his "immorality" reached the highest state of public disgrace and impeachment proceedings for a "blow-job". They ignored all the other moral standards by which he lived and ignored his genuine love of people. He ruled by decency, honor, by the standards of rightness, social justice, fairness and equity.

Most simple minded people refer to morality only regarding sexual behavior. But there are the crooks also riding on it's glory while they can lie, cheat, rape, torture, murder, conspire against their brother and take the food from the mouths of hordes of fellow men, children of a lesser God. That's ok as long as they don't engage in extra-marital sexual activity.

Rudyard Kipling says it the best. All the virtues required to be human.

If
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!