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a-okNow Playing: Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
At the end of the 19th Century, an Italian dude named Marconi invented radio. About the same time, a guy named Tesla also invented radio. So did some guy in France. They all used the same principles to do the same things in pretty much the same way, and even though it's a monumental coincidence that they would all do it at the same time, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that what worked for one of them also worked for the other ones. Electricity, radio frequencies, and sound waves all work the same for everyone and it doesn't matter who you are or where you live.
Science and math and gravity all work that way, but for some reason religion doesn't. It's been my experience that religious people focus on their differences, and not their similarities. To be right, they have to make others wrong. It's kind of the same way that commercials for one brand name can't just say they're the best, but that everyone else sucks.
Some religions say you have to believe certain things, mostly having to do with events that happened thousands of years ago. Some religions say you have to wear certain clothes, or grow beards or get weird haircuts, or pray in certain positions at certain times. And it's not that I'm against anyone doing or thinking or believing or wearing whatever they want, it's just that I don't see how any of that has anything to do with what's in your heart or how you treat others or how you live your life.
I know a woman who gave up her career to become a paramedic so that she could serve others. I know a guy who spends all his free time volunteering with the homeless. I know another dude who recently ran into someone who'd done his family a serious wrong, and rather than confronting or avoiding him, he walked up to him and shook his hand and smiled. Forgiveness and kindness and mercy and charity are all universal, no matter what else you believe. Just the same way that electricity and gravity are all the same. I just don't understand why that doesn't matter.
