Loud Mouth Brown Girl

You’ll understand that what I am about to say is in your best interest.

Jesus did not write The Ten Commandments. He did not write The Holy Bible, either. Moses wrote the fucking commandments, after he smashed the set that God “himself” wrote, he RE-WROTE the commandments IN HIS words.

The Bible was written by the men who sat back and not only allowed Jesus to die, but then profited off his death by the building of the Roman Catholic Church. NOT The Church of Jesus Christ, which was founded much later by people who were not, say it with me now, Jesus Christ, himself.

We have been fighting over the words of a man who lived two thousand years, for two thousand fucking years, all because we don’t allow ourselves to grow into the idea that not one religious idea is true, but that they may all have coins and points of truth in their roots.

From Buddhism to Witchcraft, everything we know about the universe is available to us through libraries, written stories of firsthand accounts, and experiences by everyday normal people who lived in this world recently.

It’s so difficult to believe the Renaissance wasn’t yesterday, but it wasn’t that far away from yesterday either. Neither was the Civil Rights Movement, or the Million Man March.

These things happened in the name of fighting for progress; it wasn’t just about “Freedom,” it was about “Freedom for all.” American governments, going back to their inception, have been promising the world freedom. And now with Donald Trump, every right that women, men, children, and everyone else labelled in America have fought for is being stripped away one second after the next.

Since the first days of America, people have protested how things were done, and they were bloody well right to, but in this day and age, Trump has every advantage, and we have none. Y’all, we’re fighting The Fucking Dark Lord for crying out loud, the only thing he doesn’t have is dragon,s and I mean drones, so doesn’t he?

I know it sounds like a good idea to tell people to get up and fight, but the question is fight how? Trump has a nightmare of army men and women willing to follow his every rule, trained long before they became part of the American military system to be everything Trump expects them to be.

The documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets showcased the fact that there is nearly one million members of their brand of religion who fully believe in populating the world with as many of their children as possible, using whatever means necessary to spread their message of hate and control in the name of “Freedom”.

I wasn’t surprised because I was raised in that same kind of community, filled with men, women, trans and non-binary people who had to hide who they truly were, in order to survive the idea that only some of us are truly welcome here.

I live in Canada, and from the outside looking in, Canada looks like an amazing option compared to many countries, but in terms of it’s racist policies, and the fact that so many Indigenous women go missing and unaccounted for every fucking God damned year, it’s getting harder and harder to believe in the one God ideology.

Especially when you consider that Witchcraft teaches us “As above so below.” That doesn’t stop at “Oh, only good things happen in Heaven,” no bitch, as above so below means if it’s happening here, it’s happening up there too, or out there, we are not alone in the universe. I fully believe that.

I also believe that while we’re absolutely not alone in the universe, we as a society have to figure out how to take all our spiritual, physical, and scientific knowledge, and put it to use so that we actually don’t end up destroying the fuck out of ourselves.

I’m tired of hiding half of myself to make the rest of the world more comfortable. I was born of many different cultures, and each of those cultures has access to majick and power that the world has stomped on, shat on, and said doesn’t exist, all to convince women, specifically, that they are less powerful than they are.

Women are supreme creatures, designed to take a lot of pain, yes, but also capable of creating much chaos when crossed. I know that now because I’ve seen myself and others do it when we have taken on so much, we inevitably explode.

Women have been under attack since the beginning of time. I don’t know why, I have absolutely no idea what our crime is, except that we can bring life into this world, regardless of our ancestry. Maybe that’s the reason? But then, if that were true, why are so many trans women, who are ALSO women, hated? Is it just the fact that women exist? Period? Regardless of our label identity?

Maybe it’s because men just need to beat something into submission in order to activate their “I’m a real man” genes. Whatever it might be, the whole “this religion is right and that religion is wrong” bullshit is precisely that. Especially when it comes to Halloween.

Lots of Christians like to forget that it was witches who helped protect their children from the bad things during the “Days of Dark” when there was no electricity and people were too poor to afford even candle wax or firewood.

There was half an entire century when people suffered because the church collected every penny of gold it could get while starving the patrons, and the government wasn’t much help. There’s a reason that Robin Hood, based very very very loosely on history, is such a beloved classic.

We have been fighting over who is right, and who is wrong, because the people who think everyone in the world but themselves are wrong, are literally trying to murder everyone else on the fucking planet, by any means necessary.

The Earth is literally feeding on our blood, and we’re letting the government tell us that progress is slow but colonization is necessary. For what? What more could the governments and it’s petty officials possibly need that they don’t already have?

We the fucking people, my ass. America is a weak country, and I say that because it feeds itself on celebrity culture, consumerism, and yeah, colonization and control of nations it has no right to, all because four hundred years ago the Europeans decided winning against the Vikings wasn’t enough.

I am generationally tired on behalf of every nation that has had to fight to survive. I am tired on behalf of every Black Canadian woman and non-binary person who has ever been ignored. I am pissed off on behalf of every child who didn’t make it, and all the kids who didn’t make it.

Canada, as America’s counterpart, is not much better because we do the same God damned thing. In one breath, Mark Carney recognizes Palestine as a separate state, and in the other, he continues to send weapons to Israel. The math is not fucking mathing my dudes.

We have to do better than “well, he seemed like a good idea at the time,” or my personal favourite, “At least he wasn’t Trump adjacent.” YES HE IS.

All Canada did in the last fucking election was replace one young, kind of annoyingly out of tune white guy with an older, annoyingly out of tune white guy.

The policies haven’t changed, and women and children are still going ignored. Women are still being dug out of landfills. Children are still being found in mass graves. We have a long way to go before we say that we’re a nation of people who actually follow the spiritual paths to which we so cling and claim.

Jesus didn’t write the Bible, and the original Commandments were smashed by human hands and rewritten in a language he deemed worthy. I repeat this because I think it’s important to remember religion literally kills.

It’s been destroying lives since the Ancient Gods walked the earth, and will continue to do so as long as we remember that we as humans are not here to destroy. We are here to build, to explore, to wonder, to be amazed, and to understand.

We are here to learn, and to teach. Not to cause harm. Not to find the bloodiest way to kill as possible. Yes we have built up generational aggression, but that’s why there is art. That’s why for the love of all things holy, there is Therapy.

Sending all my love,

Devon J Hall, The Original Loud Mouth Brown Girl

P.S. After deep study I have discovered it’s impossible to “Pray” or “Beat” the Gay out of me, but thanks for suggesting I try. It totally didn’t cause years that will be spent slowly unwraveling in therapy.