The Spiritual Path of Destruction

I’m not saying don’t believe in your creator, because that belief holds the essence of good in the world. I just want to get closer to what Albert Camus said: we are all in this bloody century together and that should be argument enough to stop the killing.  When it comes to religion, I’m like the guy with the bag and shovel taking a bit of this and a bit of that—mixing them all together to create my pick and mix. Let’s call mine art. It seems that’s what I get off on. 

Let’s stop bickering about the suspending violence and just stop the killing. I was watching spiritual leaders in favour of Hezbollah and I felt very frustrated. Being from Northern Ireland, I wake every day to the same rhetoric of violence spilling from the same mouths. These are supposed to be people who believe,or god and Ulster, we create violence and mayhem.

Look at what is happening in Lebanon at the minute—a country created by the worst violence in the world. Millions have died. The world bickers about the meaning of a word that will stop the conflict. In the meantime, innocent people die until they get it right. Stop this please. Israel, you were created from the worst atrocity in the world. I know your trouble goes back hundreds of years, but I believe in humanity and this is my way of saying stop the violence.

I don’t know where I stand when the word god is uttered. I’m jealous of people that believe. I have a belief, too. It’s called art and this is my only way of expressing how I feel. I know we are close to Albert Camus’ words now that there is peace in Northern Ireland.  I bet Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, never considered that there was a crèche in the building before he blew it up—I’m not saying he was right no taking of life is right, the system wasn’t working for him. He was bringing the war home to America to show them how evil it can be, he seen women and children mamed and killed so he thought he had no other choice. I bet Osama Bin Laden had been cooking up his scheme for years before he put it into action.  Look at George Bush, Tony Blair and the right wing fundamentalists—they believe they are right and in the name of god they are doing his work. 

Someone once said, never hate your enemy—it clouds your judgement. Religion and politics shouldn’t be uttered in the same breath because they are too big an entity ever to be satisfied unless you’re a glutton for punishment. Let’s stop clouding our judgement. Let’s stop the bombings. We’re like children with toys—my bombs are better than yours. Mine can kill 28 innocent fruit pickers. Yours can only kill 22.  Let’s get on with the real issues that face humanity. Let’s forget Iraq and America, Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland and the Republic—or any other country you want to bomb.  Look at the money we’re wasting and the resources we could use to end the worlds poverty. We should be dropping money instead of bombs. War is being treated like a commodity.

I grew up in North Belfast—Ardoyne. I’ve had my fill of who’s right and who’s wrong and I’ve noticed it’s always the innocent that die. Oh he or she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you idiots weren’t messing around with murderous toys we wouldn’t be hurt.  Americans deal with war by getting in an aeroplane on one side of the world and flying to the other to drop a bomb. They are home again for their television sitcom. War is not a commodity that capitalists trade in.  Don’t let belief interfere. Anything you do behind closed doors is up to you, just respect the other person. Let’s stop this triviality. Embrace capitalism as long as it doesn’t hurt others. We just follow like sheep and the shepherds are those in power.

Here are my words—my way of saying, “Wise up, boys. We are ruining this beautiful accident. 

”do you know that we have never had one day of peace on this earth ever? Let’s change this.