What a wonderful world

What is wrong with diversity?

In my family we have Native Americans, African Americans, people from Thailand, Catholics, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Republicans and Democrats. My great grandmother was Jewish.  Our family came from Germany, Scotland, Wales, the Americas and who knows where else.

What a wonderful world it would be if we could celebrate all of the holidays in honor of each other's gods, traditions and hopes.

I can't imagine a power great enough to create all this diversity being so petty that some of it was considered heresy. In most ways it all celebrates the same things in different ways.

The only reason not to do this is when it furthers some agenda that goes against equality, diversity, and love. Unfortunately for religion today it has become mostly a tool for controlling people instead of a way to honor the power that created them.

Nature sets a good example for us. There are all kinds of trees in the forest, all colors of puppies in litters, birds of every shape and size and even the land varies from lush tropical jungles to arid deserts. Only human beings seem bound and determined to make that a disadvantage. Everything else actually relies on it.