Manure

Actually more of an essay, but we don't have that writing type here.

Have you ever seen a mountain of manure?

Manure has this tendency to become hard after days and weeks of elemental exposure and one is able to stand firm upon it once it is dried out and hardened.

The Genesis story is a small manure pile and then it grows bigger with the concepts of original sin, omnipotent transcendence and forgiveness by a saving hero. It grows ever bigger with the piles of apologetics, theology, philosophy and personal testimonies that are added onto it.

Of course this heap of manure dries out and leaves it befouling stench and presence across the landscape that is the human condition.

And then something happens: an outsider or a former insider can't take the stench and sight of it anymore.

And they find that one book of matches, the matches called reason or critical thought or unhindered insight, and they stand next to the heap that is still and admixture of dryness or wetness. The actor, this person who believed the manure heap at first was a simple annoyance but is now a full-fledged thorn that might as well have been dipped in bleach, throws match after match after match on it until it is set ablaze, like the flames of the garbage pit outside of Jerusalem that has inspired centuries of fear and loathing (not necessarily for Las Vegas).

Unfortunately, the physics, the calculus that is existence doesn't exactly allow for my warped scenario to occur in physical reality but only within the confines of my disturbed imagination.

But we can still do it: imagine that is!

Reviews

[Matthew Smith]

Well, well. I wouldn't say this makes your imagination "disturbed"; I--and I'm sure a great many others--would do the exact same thing. Well done! Though, on a humorous note, I'd suggest a napalm strike over matches.

[Ruth]

Hon...you are a gem! This is epic! xx

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Very interesting thoughts, well said.