Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" My name is Chaos, goddess of ... ummm ... chaos. I'll be your host today.
Anne is so furious she can't type. And my attention span is short, so here's her problem in a nutshell:
One of her "Christian" friends complained that the hurricane survivors in New Orleans were whiners "looking for the government to take care of them." The "Christian" friend added: "I guess every society has people looking for handouts."
Anne channeled me, and the bail hearing is set for two weeks from today.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Whining in New Orleans
Since Anne Johnson over at "The Gods Are Bored" is so mad at the god boys she can't type, she asked the Goddess Chaos to sit in for her:
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I have been hearing this ALL over... and that just PROVES to me that the new veiled way to say you hate people of color is to refer to this vague "welfare queens" and "people looking for handouts."
And anyway, the taxes in this country are supposed pay for repairs and infrastructure, including those levies! If the government puts people in harm's way, well then, they pay.
Funny. I've just had an inexplicable rush of understanding of racial bigots. They're deeply wounded people from deeply wounded families, and the wounds get passed on from generation to generation like bodies being passed from hand to hand over the top of a crowd. They just need to be taught, that's all. The question of course, is how to tie them down long enough to teach them. And it doesn't help that we have entities like Fox News fanning the flames, here.
Addendum: I'm also thinking about the book Albion's Seed that I mentioned a few days ago, and the South's penchant for many, multiple, graded social classes. White bigots are usually only a rung or two up the "social ladder" from poor blacks. Must be hard for them, seeing people whom Daddy-god feels is beneath them, getting more material goodies than they're getting. So it's god the Father leading to disgusting things again. Daddy god loves you only if you perform well. And there's always someone who's performing better than you are. There's only one place at the top. And once you reach the top, you have to worry about falling off.
God the Mother on the other hand, loves you period. No performance required. Everyone gets equal love. Nobody unhappy. Everybody smiling!
India has female gods and a caste system...?
Anyway, I think you're absolutely right on the bigotry stemming from wounded families, and our country has a definate history of pitting poor whites "against" poor blacks for political gains, very obvious especially during the Revolutionary War, etc...
Yes! India, with its mixed pantheon of male and female gods also has one of the most brutal and rigid caste systems the world has ever known. That's why I'm against gods. Back in the days when there were only (or primarily) female deity, we had far, far less social hierarchy. I call these "Pure-Goddess" times, because it was before the time when the gods sneaked in, stayed in their "place" for a while, then got bolder and usurped some of the Goddess's powers, then took over completely.
Sometimes I think people are better off under one god than they are with mixed god/goddess pantheons, since the mixed pantheon always seems to make female deity inferior.
Sometimes I think people are better off under one god than they are with mixed god/goddess pantheons, since the mixed pantheon always seems to make female deity inferior.
Which is why Catholicism is so baffling, stay with me a minute here, lol... I know that at least in Polish culture and much of Latin American culture, the common *preference* is to cultivate a personal relationship with Mary the Blessed Mother, rather than Jesus or even God the Father... But then, I can speak for Polish culture at least, this does not translate into respect for the abstract notion of Female, but it kind of reinforces this ideal of a wan self-martyring mother. In day-to-day living, The Virgin Mary is definately concentrated on more than the males, but in this case it sometimes makes it worse on women...
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