Divorce from nature

Humans have divorced themselves from nature since time immemorial, and now they divorce themselves yet more: They divorce themselves from their natural selves. It is not enough that people think their tools above and beyond the natural flow. They seek to use their tools to change it according to their whim, with little regard to or knowledge of the far-reaching consequences.
There are those that preach about the moral decay of our generation. Some claim that the religious scriptures have not been adhered to. Some use the religious scriptures to shield themselves, to take the moral high ground. All they really think is that scripture alone is sufficient to redeem them.
I say that the much-vaunted “moral decay” is little more than a feeble attempt to break free rather than transcend the human condition. I have had people in my area lament the burgeoning harvest of homosexuality. They regret, indeed despise, the growing trend by taking the moral high ground, stating that it is socially unacceptable and was forbidden in scripture. While both are true, they are skirting the true issue; that humans have deviated from the natural order of humanity and choose recreation over procreation. While I am not personally against this, I am stating that it is unnatural and a move away from the natural order.
Scripture and religious teachings have long been used in the name of acts needing the support of morality. While the morality of religion is generally unquestioned, it is the acts of strange people that render such morality dubious. It is not in human nature to kill without cause. A sane person kills out of passion, jealousy, any feeling that urges one to remove another in order to soothe the heart. This is merely human weakness, however undesirable it is. The worst ones are those who claim that scripture approves of their killing urges, and that killing is somehow justified. They find a shield for these unnatural urges to kill for the sake of killing, simply by quoting scripture. Those unwise enough to follow such a path are equally at fault.
Finally, there are those that have chosen to worship money as their god rather than anything else. Rather than provide quality food, they would befoul their cooking rather than expend additional money. Some work beyond their normal waking hours merely for the sake of earning money, and often more money than they need. Those who manage to save immense amounts of money despite living a fairly comfortable life are of this kind. There is little sense in hoarding money on the pretext of “saving for a rainy day”. All one needs only to save is but a rudimentary sum for contingencies, as there is no guarantee that some foul accident could wipe those savings away.

I have heard the lament of an Indian chief in my dreams, waking me at strange morning hour with the sun still in the sky. It was not as written here, but it mentioned suffering and how humans have caused it. That was what inspired the rant. I have heard, and I am not deaf.