Or maybe you believe in God, but you don’t believe that he’s such an asshole that he’d torture people forever for believing the wrong thing.
The jerks are always the loudest, but don’t assume that they actually represent all the rest.
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That’s exactly it. “He hurts you because he loves you.”
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Why bother? Because religion plays a large part of politics. Several candidates would like to the US as a theocracy. Furthermore, laws area continually passed restricting rights, based solely on particular belief systems. Plus, I’m uneasy having to coexist with people who believe the world is 600 years old, dinosaurs are satanic fiction, the Earth is flat and the center of the solar system, etc. You don’t see many billboards attacking Buddhism, because that religion isn’t trying to control people’s lives (here anyway). If people would keep their beliefs to themselves and not social policy, there wouldn’t have to be a public confrontation.
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Damn. Oh well, I can still go to Abernathy, TX and see “Jesus In A Box”.
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Right? How fun would that be!
We’re also going to the Christian “Haunted House” they have in TX every Halloween. Instead of ghosts, zombies, and serial killers, they have sinners being tortured by Satan for having pre-marital sex or burning in eternal Hellfire for being gay. And everyone gets candy at the end!
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OK. Sorta my point. Why give them the attention they want? That’s the attention they use when foisting theocratic crap onto the public agenda.
Its important that you put “(here anyway)” because in Sri Lanka there is a particularly fundamentalist strain of Buddhism which had political power there for some time. They had actively tried to wipe out the faith, language and culture of the Hindu minority of the country. Leading to one of the nastiest civil wars virtually nobody in the US has heard of. One of the insurgent groups, the Tamil Tigers (a secular radical group) invented the suicide bomb vest.
Damn Right!
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Like Jack in the Box with fewer incidents of E. Colli
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Or you could skip all that nonsense, and head up to my stomping grounds to see Eartha…
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*lolz
I remember you telling the Pham about that one before.
Eartha sounds vastly more enriching and educational, maybe on a different trip where Demon and I are not intent on raising some hell.
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But sooo much more leprosy and tetanus…
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