First Freedom First – Democracy Not Theocracy (Video: YouTube)
Taking a momentary break from the good war against Prop 8, here’s a pretty decent little video I stumbled across while trying to track down the lastest pile of steaming merde from Neglect Protect Marriage for your enlightened viewification.
Coincidentally, I recently received an email calling me an “intolerant, anti-Christian bigot.” That’s not quite the case. I’m not very fond of most of the marauding cults of invisible-all-powerful-being worshippers, who, by virtue of their divinely handed-down, millennia-old texts, insist that they are the only way to some imaginary life-after-death vacation wonderland.
And isn’t it amusing how all these faiths claim to be the peaceful religion, while at the same time, they’ve all got their grubby little faith-based fingers on nuclear triggers aimed at each other, and at you and me?
I was recently invited by one of these mine-is-a-peaceful-tolerant-religion types, who happens to have one of the funniest, though unintentionally so, blogs in the known universe, to take my “Euro-atheistic agenda” and “dance on back to Amsterdam” — where I lived for a few years and where I began blogging about the radical religious right in America.
And isn’t it, as the Church Lady used to say, special that this self-proclaimed ex-homosexual ex-con also turns out to be one of the driving forces behind the attempt to eliminate marriage equality in California? He performs his duty, as Oscar Wilde once said of his prosecutor, Edward Carson — an old Trinity College schoolmate, “with all the added bitterness of an old friend.”
His name doesn’t really matter; nor does he.
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2 Comments so far. Comments are closed.Well, I am an intolerant, anti-Christian bigot, and damn proud of it.
Religion — unlike homosexuality — is a choice, and a learned behavior. Anyone can freely change his or her religion at any time; just look at all the people who convert to their partner’s religion in order to get married in their partner’s church — not to mention all the former members of Christian and other denominations who have bravely chosen to reject religious obscurantism and become freethinkers.
This is not to say that all Christians are bigots; there are plenty who aren’t, but in my experience, people who self-identify as “Christian” (as opposed to “Episcopalian” or “Presbyterian” or whatever) are generally of the Dobson/Robertson/Engle ilk, who pose a fundamental (pun intended) threat to our Republic and should be fought tooth and nail until they scuttle back under their rocks.
Amen Brother Peter! Amen!