Religión HTM

Cuando hace días Ratzinger estuvo en Alemania adivirtió a los jóvenes ahí que no tomarán del catolicismo lo que les pareciera mejor, que deberían creer en todo lo que El les dijera. Ajá muchos habrán pensado secretamente. Y es que la juventud del mundo, cada vez más cree en la religión HTM, es decir, Hecha por Tí Mismo (DIY, Do It Yourself en inglés). Pueden creer en Dios, pero no en la prohibición de Roma de aceptar a su primo gay o de protegerse sexualmente contra el VIH. Mark Morford del San Francisco Gate escribe sobre Religión HTM:

"There is this upwelling. There is this delicious rebellion. It is not yet loud and it is not yet conventional and it is certainly not yet dominating the national political dialogue and it is not yet making the headlines and maybe it never will and this is probably a good thing.

But it's happening. I have seen it. Maybe you have, too. I am, in fact, a part of it. Maybe you are, too. And lo, it is righteous and delicious and good.

It is this: Whole happy unfettered slews of people, young and old and in between, both genders and all genders and those who have yet to figure out just what gender they are, they are dancing to their own cosmic tune and blaspheming against the quo of status and taking divine matters into their own tingling and luminous hands because, goddammit, it's the right thing to do.

This is what's happening: Millions are defying what many think is the religious norm...

Oh sure, they've been doing it for years. Decades. Centuries. Spiritual self-determination among the intelligent and the educated and the independent-minded in this country is nothing new -- hell, it was the impetus for the Aquarian '60s, the happy drug of the '70s, the mantra of the New Age '80s, the sacrum tattoo of the '90s, the whale song of the '00s. It is, of course, one of the founding tenets of this nation, one apparently long forgotten and/or beaten into a bloody pulp by the neo-con Right. But still it flourishes.

But something feels different now. There is this palpable sea change. There is this deep simmering electrical pulse. There is the return of the divine feminine, the flip of the cosmic coin, what the mystics and the seers call the Great Awakening, happening within the next decade or so (for those who are ready). Or maybe it's just a giant and wise recoil away from bogus notions of a warmongering homophobic paternalistic God. Whatever....

Millions are doing it, especially the young. They are shucking "religion" and taking up "spirituality." They are mixing Buddhist meditation with nontraditional Catholicism, eco-friendliness with Jesus, racial tolerance with Allah, ancient mysticism with Judaism, divine sex with Hinduism -- with an overarching sense that there is far more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in most organized religion's meager philosophies. It sounds good because it is."

Ahí está. Benedicto dirá misa pero el mundo vive la religión HTM, y de hecho, siempre ha sido así.