A Rallying Cry for the Open-Minded

ATTENTION EVERYONE: Why can't we all just get along? Really, people, is that so hard? To respect other people?

Black, white, yellow, orange, pink, purple, girl, boy, young, old, gay, straight, anywhere in between...we are all different. 

Really, let's say it together - WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT. 

We are born this way for a reason. To be different. THAT is the reason.  

God, Allah, the Great Spirit, whoever it is that you pray or not pray to - He, She, It very clearly wanted variation, differences, and uniqueness. Even if you pray to no one and believe strictly in science, you cannot deny that nature thrives on variation and difference. Unless we were meant to be clones, this will always be and has always been the case. 

That begs the question, then...is hatred a by-product of natural selection? A mutation? Human creation? I'd like to think not. Hatred is a product of evil. The yang to the yin of goodness. The hangover. The awful aftermath of eating too many donuts. And worse. Much much worse.

So, you might ask, where is there room for hatred in any pursuit of good? I have an answer for you: There is none! Bigotry, racism, discrimination...these are the instruments of hatred meant to drive us apart. They are evilness embodied in human action or inaction. So why is this so hard for some people to grasp? 

People grab their Bibles and thump on them and say that the book justifies their hatred. How? It was written by human hands. And humans are inherently flawed. God made us that way. Even so, the overall messages of most religious texts are messages of love. I cannot help but believe that any mention of hate, discrimination, slavery, and judgment was put there by the human hands that wrote them to be utilized in the pursuit of their own selfish human endeavors. It is in human nature to do so. Yet even this corruption cannot hide the underlying messages of love. 

So, let me ask again, why can't we all just get along? We are meant to. Just as we are meant to be different. We were made this way. Our beauty is in our diversity.