Sunday, May 31, 2009

Scare Tactics . . . For God

I watched Jesus Camp recently, and it sent my head spinning with trepidation for all the poor children who have their innocence stolen from them and have it replaced with fear and a blinding faith, when they should be acting like kids, not preparing to be martyrs. This kind of sick perversion of faith is everywhere these days, as radical and fundamental Christians tighten the nooses around their children's neck and continually force society to live by its rules.
I understand completely why there is such an increase in atheism in the US; people are getting sick and tired of these bullshit scare tactics used to lure the fearful and weak into the bonds of religious fanaticism. Organizations like this one use ignorance against people, claiming ancient parables as fact and using a cohesive religious pride to keep people scoffing at reason and reasonable people.
There was another murder of a doctor who performed abortions this weekend, by some fanatical, hate-filled chickenshit who shot him IN CHURCH as he was performing his duties as an usher while his wife was in the choir. I can only assume that they had mentally prepared for this moment, and that his wife can take some consolation in the fact that her husband stood by his beliefs and that they caught the bastard about three hours later.
Why do people who believe themselves to be the righteous, moral authority in our country end up being the ones who murder doctors, protest their hatred for homosexuals, and slur anyone else that doesn't agree with them? Not very Christlike. Not at all.

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