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lately, i have been having an odd feeling. i am a third generation atheist. i was raised with no faith, and also no feelings about faith. it’s just sort of a blank space for me. but as i’ve been watching what’s happened in minnesota, i’ve had this stirring feeling: we are going to heaven.

i’ve watched empathy and compassion and fellowship and i have seen cruelty and injustice. and i just feel so certain that if there is some sort of afterlife, we are on the right side of things. and that the other side…that the need some sort of retribution that is bigger than this lifetime

maybe “we are going to heaven” means “we are making heaven” or “finally this feels more right” but it is such a certainty this is the way. this is the path of the good and righteous. the other side is lost in the darkness. they have lost their humanity. given it away, maybe. had it taken?

there is also something so horrific about being actively oppressed in the name of a religion whose messiah taught so much about compassion to see the people who really most live out his teachings be torn down as sinners, you know? i can’t imagine how this feels to good people of faith

One of the common beliefs in Judaism is that the Moshiach/Messiah will not show up into an unready world, but arrive in a world where we've fixed it already. Not a savior, really, just an indication that we've saved ourselves.

I’m a sort of half-assed mystic, who’s done contemplative (meditative) practice with a few different traditions, mostly Buddhist and Christian. A former priest once told a group I was in that he was an a-theist, which stunned some people. He said the word just meant not believing in a deity,