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I am quite frightened by the Deeply Religious. In fact, they give me the wiggens.

Normal religious folk don't scare me. You know, they believe in whatever god[dess]/higher power and they go to church [or not] and they're happy with their lives and comfortable with their faith.

I have a theory that the Deeply Religious are miserable. They cling to religion like a life jacket, and think they're going to make points with whatever god they believe in by spreading the Word. And, you know, with extra points comes happiness. But the Deeply Religious never get happy, so they continue to do crazy ass shit in the name of their god.

The thing that pisses me off the most about the Deeply Religious is their capacity for hate. In most cases the Deeply Religious consider themselves to be better than another group of people. They think they're living their lives better, or they think the group of people beneath them are living sinfully.

I was reading some woman's journal a few weeks ago, and she was talking about reading journals. Particularly two journals -- one belonged to a lesbian and the other belonged to man practicing Wicca. She went on and on about how guilty she felt for reading them after she discovered their terrible secret [even though both journals were well-written and interesting] because "God hates that sort of thing."

Ahem.

After 15 minutes of trying to control myself, I left a note in her comments section saying that, despite the fact that my officially sanctioned Christian religious training only extended to the age of 12, I was under the impression that god didn't hate anyone. In fact, I seem to remember something about god being love. I don't know why I bothered, because the Deeply Religious can always rationalize their beliefs and find support for their fucked up ideas by twisting the teachings of the Bible, Koran, etc.

Those fucktards [™ BeerMary] over at godhatesfags.com [although I hear the site no longer exists] are a prime example of the Deeply Religious spreading hate. Fred Phelps doesn't spread the word of god, he spreads his own fucked up propaganda to people too scared not to believe it.

Aside from all the absolutely bizarre rhetoric about god hating homosexuality, there is also the crazy notion that it's OK to kill in the name of your god. In fact, killing someone who does something that god hates [do we see a theme?] will earn you those extra points I talked about earlier.

I have no problem with people who are pro life. But don't try to force your views down my throat. I'm radically pro choice even though I doubt I would choose to have an abortion. Many of the Deeply Religious think it's perfectly acceptable [and expected of them] to defend the right to life at any price.

Let's not forget organizations like the Klan, who think their god has decreed that the only good person is a white Christian person. Again, with the spreading of hate. My personal favorite are the Deeply Religious who consider women to be the root of all evil in the world. Many of the Deeply Religious think it's OK to maim, kill, and rape women and girls in the name of their god.

The Deeply Religious are, in part, why I am not a religious person. They give all religions a bad name. I don't need to be saved, or born again, or converted, or anything like that -- I'm perfectly happy with my lack of religious faith.

Posted by Nicole at September 10, 2002 08:09 AM | TrackBack