a word on H.P. Lovecraft

While perusing a friendz bookshelf I happened upon an old compilation of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories. Let me say that this was a true genius, a veritable Michelangelo of the Horror Genre.

However, it is readily apparent that his talent was misdirected to (inadvertently?) supporting christian doctrine.

What does "Call of Cthulu" have to do with christianity, you ask? well...I'll tell you!

The main bullet points of H.P.'s stories were as follows, "creepy things from the dark come and eat you, turn you into a creepy thing or drag you into the bowels of the earth."

What this does is, essentially set up the philosophy that, "unknown = evil". Much like the fabled St. Patrick who "drove the serpents out of Ire-Land", but in reality obliterated ancient Kelt/Gael Paganism in that region. The point here, of course, is that H.P., with all the talent he could muster was screaming "you're either with us...or with the creepy things in the night...and they hate freedom!!!!"

I'm just wondering how long it will take before people in the world will realize that killing in the "name of god" hasn't really advanced the human race that much in the last 4000 years.

And that's on both sides of this conflict, kidz!!!

Please read this quote from the BBC News site,

Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

Soooooo, if I'm supposed to just do what I'm told by "world leaders" then there must be more than 1 god right? OHHHH...no wait...I'm only supposed to believe what the "leader" of "my country" believes! I get it! But wait....the "god" "my leader" believes in is homophobic, genocidal and jealous. This god hates gays, pagans, political dissent, certain kinds of people, races, animals and even the Earth itself (I couldn't make this up if I tried, I have the scripture quote for each of these claims) so I don't think I can believe in this "god" because this god hates....me.

So I don't think I can support a "leader" who worships this "god" or a "society" that supports a "leader" that believes in this "god", because this "god" is not interested in Peace or equality, and by association, neither would a "leader" or a society that supported that "leader"

To recap, H.P. Lovecraft was an unbelievably talented artist, who unfortunately (and perhaps unconsciously) supported a doctrine of "hating the unknown" Perhaps "our" president could use some passages from Lovecraft's books to explain why it's o.k. to kill womyn and children.