Opinion

This is the honest to God truth: I do not know what to believe anymore about anything. Religion, politics, and life are so vulnerable to the interpretation of every single one of us that truth has become nothing more than an opinion. We are a passionate people who are clamoring to have our thoughts be known. And in the process of our adamant rhetoric, truth seems to be lost. When we can easily justify hatred, hypocrisy, and arrogance because we are fervently trying to persuade others that we hold the absolute truth, the only thing that we have revealed is that our truth is based on our own thoughts and emotions. The beauty of truth is that it does not need imperfect people to prove its existence.  It is not validated by who believes it, anymore than it is made stronger by our belief. The heart, the life, and the wellspring of truth is love. If love is not the center of our beliefs and our actions within the arenas of religion, politics, and life then we have merely deluded ourselves into thinking that we hold the truth. If religion was based on loving our neighbor, if politics was based on loving our neighbor, and if life was based on loving our neighbor, I think we would be much closer to understanding what truth is. At this point in time, everybody’s opinion, including my own, is just noise and the confusion of it all has brought me to the realization that I need a radical change. Rhetoric needs to be replaced by silent service, hatred with love, hypocrisy with truth, and arrogance with humility. If we want change, we have to be the change. If I want change, I have to be the change. I may not know what to believe in these areas anymore, but I do know this, I am tired of societal division. I am weary of one side demonizing the other and vice versa. I long for peace, which in my mind is just mutual respect in regards to religion, politics, and life. Is this possible or is it just a pipe dream?