Be the Change no. 36

“The most rebellious action is taking ownership of your life.”

Be the Change.

I was sitting in Catholic mass this weekend thinking about how much of the religion of Catholicism is based upon victimhood. This same system that held responsibility for some of the most heinous atrocities in the history of mankind is based on a teaching of victimhood. You are not responsible for being born into sin. You are not responsible for how life has worked out. You are not responsible for fixing any of the problems. Someone else is going to fix those problems for you if you simply fall in line with the system.

I really don’t think there is a lot more ownership in any Protestant form of the religion which I found strange because there is a lot of ownership in Christianity. You have to choose to love I Am, you have to choose to love your self, you have to choose to love your neighbor, you have to choose to be the Son . . . A lot of choices there you have to make. You see that you are not separate from the message. You start to see that the message is dependent on your action.

So when I saw the post this weekend about not allowing assholes to call themselves Christians, I think that really resonated because in my decades of attending church services of various types across the state of Maryland, I have found a lot of assholes playing pretend on Sundays.

Let’s be honest, there are a lot of people playing pretend every day of the week, in every location you can picture, just being assholes. Their reasons for being assholes are as varied as there are folks BUT they are all victims in their own minds. Folks that take ownership are too busy working on them to worry about being assholes. We may be inconsiderate or rude at times because your shit is getting in the way of us working on our shit BUT we aren’t going out of our way to make anyone’s life more difficult. We understand that life is difficult enough.

And I still see these posts of folks that keep repeating that of folks talking about how they mirror the energy other people give. That the way you treat me determines the way I treat you. That it’s their fault that I acted that way. And that is an enslaved mindset. That is a mindset that takes away your personal responsibility. That is a mindset based on external controls for your personal choices. That is a mindset that points fingers rather than taking accountability.

The world is filled with folks ready to take advantage of your victim mindset. Whether it be systems of religion, systems of government, systems of family, systems of employment . . . systems of control are looking to placate you. They’re waiting to agree that it isn’t your fault. That life has been unfair to you. That the other folks are out to get you and take away your power while all along you are giving away your power. You have it inside you. You just need to embrace that power. Embrace what is within you.

It may not all be in your mind BUT you can already lose the battle before they begin just because you’re not in control of your mind. Get that body healthy. Get spiritually healthy. Stop being a victim and start owning your choices. As one of the most empowering podcasters out there Marsha Vanwynsberghe says, “Own your choices, own your life”.

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