The church can kiss my.......!

I just read an article and it's struck a chord, so maybe I should just stop writing right now and calm down.... I think not.

Apparently the righteous forces at the Vatican have some problems with the new James Cameron creation "Avatar", with that nations media denouncing the work due to it's nature based overtones. According to Gods word on Earth (the Pope), it is wrong to worship nature. Fancy that. Paying proper homage to the one thing that creates life, that which gave you the spark, and that which can end you if it sees fit. I say it, but really from a personal standpoint I refer to 'it' as 'She'. The Mother is not something to be cast aside so lightly as the Pope would have us do, but something to be revered, and thanked for allowing us the days we live. It seems to me that the revealed word has destroyed more than the Mother's mysteries have given. But in my fury,I digress....

The Vatican has really got to get it's head out of Gods ass, and realize that Avatar is just a movie. A story designed to thrill, with intense imagery, and incredible special effects. It's not some devilish subversion designed to throw down the gauntlet before the church and take up arms in some unholy crusade. Just a movie.

If anything the Vatican should take it upon itself to leave Pagans alone. After all who are we hurting? Just because I like to sit under a tree and ponder the mystery and wonder of Nature, and what the Mother has offered me, does not make me evil. It does however seem to me that anyone who would willingly force their beliefs upon me, has some kind of evil taint. Maybe they should spend more time examining the world and how they fit in it, rather than going around telling people how wrong they are. I find it offensive to be able to read in the news how intolerance creeps into an institution which supposedly preaches peace, love, and unity for all mankind. But then again I was a Catholic before I was a Pagan, and it wasn't until of late that I had realized that I was happier being a tree-hugging, dirt-worshipping Pagan, rather than kneeling before an altar of deceit, bowing to a God who commands you to have no other God before him. Jealous much?

Now that was a rant. A short one, but a rant nonetheless......

Blessed Be.