Sacred Sites - Alchemy
Finding the
Needle of Truth
in the Haystack of Time By Freya Savitri Sampson Custodian Eartheart
I recall as a young’n, being confused about religion. My father was Anglican and my mother, Roman Catholic. Both my brother and I were christened Roman Catholic as infants. Neither of my parents were seriously practicing their religions; however both had been raised in the era of church on a Sunday. We occasionally went to church, mainly with my mother’s parents on special occasions and there was a short period of time where my brother and I were sent to Sunday school. This occurred after I asked our parent’s questions like, “What’s the difference between Roman Catholic and Anglican, if there
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is only one God?” and, “If Adam and Eve were the only people God created and they had Cain and Abel, where did everyone else come from? That would be incest and that’s not okay!” Unequipped to answer such pointy-ended questions, they preferred I ask them of the Bible teachers. This Sunday education lasted a matter of weeks as there was no room for answering such questions there either. This catalysed, at the tender age of 10, the beginnings of an existential crisis in my being. By the age of 12, having researched the Crusades and other such politicised barbarisms enacted in the ‘Name of God’, I sat down with the chaplain at my school to ‘have it out’. Again, asking the pointy-ended questions, he too was unable to answer satisfactorily for
“It was at this point that I realised the man’s belief system was seriously hypocritical and his capacity to critically think or morally discern was absent.” my moral compass. The one that broke the camel’s back was, “So, to confirm. You’re telling me, that it’s okay for the Christians to have killed all of the people in the Crusades and invade every country in the world, killing the original inhabitants, because it was in the name of God, and the people they killed were heretics or heathen, even though the Ten commandments clearly states, ‘Thou shall not kill?” The chaplain’s answer was simply, “Yes.”
