I am a blogger. I’ve been a blogger since the end of 2005. I’ve taken the blogging even more seriously over the last year or so. I like blogs. Blogs are like people – they have a voice, they have an opinion, they have an idea and they have a variety of creative ways of expressing all of those things.
What I also appreciate in blogs being like people is that it reflects our immense capacity to go on and on about exactly that which we have no idea about other than the little bits and babs we’ve picked up and synthesised for our own benefit.
This is not a blogging phenomenon. Just like I’m amused at people taking some blogs seriously and certain cult-fan-thing type of blog that offers it’s opinion about anything and everything about a certain subject. That’s not a blog thing, that’s a human thing. All blogs have done is given an environment where all those voices that before were kept to themselves and a small number of people are now given a wider voice. You don’t have to listen to them any more than you have to listen to the people around you in your life.
When I do listen to them, or when they listen to me it should not come as a surprise that some of the stuff, or quite a lot of the stuff will be rather uninformed and hilariously ignorant. For example a conversation I overheard today with two blokes talking about wars with reference to the one going on in Afghanistan. They were talking about how brainwashed those who fight for the Taliban are and it was funny hearing them talk about that from a position of two guys who likewise have evidently been brainwashed to hold the ill-informed views they had about those in combat. This view is not unusual, though, because it’s not as though we’re taught to really think things through, or research, or dig deep to find truth in situations. We’re fairly happy taking on board something that requires little in the way of hard work and then before we know it we accept as truth.
The two young gentlemen went on to share about one of my favourite arguments how all wars come from religion. It took everything in me to keep my peace as I was hearing these two carry on as though they had a good idea of what started the majority of wars in the 19th and 20th Century from the Crimean and Boer through the First and Second Worlds and the Vietnam Wars as well as a plethora of other skirmishes that must surely have been motivated by religion. After all, if we didn’t have religion we would never have chosen to gone into combat with each other in the first place, right? I mean, this religion malarkey has really got us off on the wrong foot and we’d all have been better off as atheists or at least agnostics, right? Am I right? Am I right?
For conversations like this I chuckle and thank God that we have a chance as individuals and collectively to share with others and give people the benefit of our vast ignorance. I also, however, pray that one day my blinded eyes and our blinded eyes will be open to the truth – the truth of who we are, the truth of who God is, the truth about how we’re in the state we’re in and the truth about how we can make real progress.
I’d like that day to come.
Just blogging.
That is all.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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