devils-rebels-magazine

To:

Albert Dekota Sanchez <Devils.Rebels@hotmail.com>

http://devils-rebels-magazine.synthasite.com/

“Tell us your story,” the magazine says.

So I ask myself, ‘Am I a rebel-misfit, star-shaped peg trying to fit into a square hole?’

I tried so long to fit-in with the masses of Earth and not stand out,

but there is just so much patience I found that I could have

with the 80% bull-shit which is marketed out there under the label of “Religious Truth.”

How dare I follow my dreams of sustainable-progress towards GNH (Gross National Happiness),

when the MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex) has the world so well trained

to operate according to George-Orwell’s-1984 economic model of society?

How dare I be an innovating religious-philosopher on a road-less-traveled

and offer my unique perspective

when religion is probably M.I.C.’s most effective motivator to get sheeple

to mistrust, hate & butcher each other.

Is mine a beautiful-mind, or as deluded as the one in the movie by that name?

When the “destroy-economic-model” has worked so well for so long,

how dare I try to build peace?

Yet somehow I dare to “trout” up-stream expressing my unique perspective that religion is an art, and as “the-art-of-religion” it can be enjoyed through various art-forms concurrently,

instead of just one, abandoning all others.

Wouldn’t it be absurd for someone to say that the ONLY TRUE art-form is painting,

while sculpting, singing & photography are forms of apostasy?

So I’m daring to blaze the trail and share with the world the original concept

that religions can be enjoyed as performing-&-experiential arts.

And when little-brains stop fighting about which one religion is the ONLY TRUE art-form,

peace just might break-out bringing in its wake love of art, beauty, culture, truth & justice.

To give an example:

Apr2010—Sep2011 my wife Smantha & I visited

  28       different denominations of

    8        very different faith-group-categories:

               5 Christian

               4 Buddhist

               4 Jewish

               4 Hindu

               4 NewThought

               4 Humanist

               2 Islamic

               1 Sikh

Not saying that you, reader, need to do this also,

but in my particular case, I’ve gone a step beyond just visiting.

I concurrently hold memberships in all these,

apparently mutually-excluding “religious-art-troupes”:

Constantinian (Christian):

- Catholic,

- SDA,

- Congregational,

- LDS,

-Presbyterian,

- Anglican-Episcopal,

NewThought:

- RSI - Religious Science of Mind http://www.redondocsl.org/ ,

- Unity http://unityofclearwater.org/ ,

Interfaith:

- International Association for Religious Freedom http://www.iarf.net/ ,

- Temple of Understanding http://www.templeofunderstanding.org/ ,

- Parliament of World Religions http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/ ,

- MECCLA (Middle-East Cousins Club of Los Angeles - Jews & Arabs together),

Humanist:

- Scientology http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/#/precepts ,

- Raelism http://rael.org/ ,

Sikh:

- Guru Ram Das Ashram Los Angeles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpeyGR3d7DU ,

Hindu:

- Self-Realization-Fellowship disciple http://www.yogananda-srf.org/ ,

Buddhist:

- Nichiren-Buddhist value-creating-society http://www.sgi.org/ ,

Muslim:

- Traditional-Muslim community http://www.denvermosque.org/ ,

Jewish:

- Orthodox-Jewish community Bar-Mitzvah http://www.ou.org/ ,

Ain’t that a hoot?

A guy who is simultaneously a Traditional-Muslim and an Orthodox-Jew.

Whose side do I take when they go to war with each other?

You don’t need to be as involved as I, of course,

but I do invite you, reader,

to visit religious “theaters” as you would any stage-theater, art-exhibit,

or culinary-arts-restaurant.

Expose yourself to new and strange performances & experiences.

Taste of various different spiritual “foods.”

Push your envelope, stretch your comfort zones, empathize with what others enjoy.

You’ll be the better for it.

Vindawg

https://www.facebook.com/vindawg.lindyhopper

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