Yesterday I was sent one of those inspirational slideshow things from a friend who is religious. The photos of very beautiful snow scenes, starry skies and expanses of water were accompanied by dreamy music and 45 life lessons including the usual stuff like 'Life is to short to waste time hating people' (I'm confused by this idea that emotions like hate and love are things we can just choose to have or not to have but that's for another post), 'Forgive everyone everything' (uh, no?) etc and also 'It's OK to be angry at God, he can take it.' and 'God never blinks'. I wonder if anyone else looking at those 2 was unable to not instantly think of the Haitian earthquake?
Anyway, thank god for Richard Dawkins coming to the rescue with this phenomenally inspirational and thought provoking reading from 'Unweaving the Rainbow', the very antithesis of the banal, life limiting messages of religious niceties. Open your Eyes.
'There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.' Carl Sagan
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