In Continuum.

In a recent conversation between two friends, I was addressed as being the "anti-christ" by a friend of mine, which I took as a sort of twisted compliment. I do suppose my stand against religion may put me in the light of an "ant-christ", though I really am a loving person of everything under the sky and beyond, all living things that walk the earth and crawls beneath - the nature. Calling someone "anti" anything just seems to give him or her a sense of, hatred perhaps. It is as if I hate religion, that I hate anybody who subscribes to a religion, which is really untrue. It is a common misconception of me, and I do want to take this part of the blog entry to clear my name. I think the idea of religion is ridiculous, but at the same time I do not want to interfere with what other people want to believe in. If they want to pray to an invisible man, a statue, elephants or a lamp, I really don't care. And as for people who subscribes to a religion, I have no problems with these group of people either. Some of the nicest people I know are muslims, they are catholics, they are christians, and they are all good with me, despite the knowledge that I am an atheist. What ticks me off are overly religious, self-righteous imbeciles who walk under the banner of religion and then claim to be the savior of all mankind when they really are polluting our minds with their nonsense. 

Felicia and I are great friends, because we share the same hatred towards overly religious people, the ones I have mentioned above. Morning car rides with her are more interesting for our common hate, though sometimes it involves more than just religious extremists, if you know what I mean. Anyway, she believes in a superior being, I don't, but we both despise self-righteous maniacs a lot. A couple of hours ago, she dropped me a link over MSN, a video in regards to the Phelps family from Kansas. Foolishly, I thought it had something to do with Michael Phelps and their eating habits, but it was anything but. I've seen that lady before, I told myself, as the video started playing. I remember seeing her crazy face on some news channel a few years ago, and then the topic came around in the video and I recognized where I saw her - Shirley Phelps. I remember watching a video in regards to her protests outside cemeteries against the dead American soldiers and their family members. She claims that those soldiers would be going to Hell, because they died defending a country that accommodates homosexuality. Seriously, don't you just hate religious fanatics? I always have the urge to shove big sticks into their orifices, especially when dealing with these numb-headed freaks who have their heads screwed on the wrong way round. 

So their argument is this: all homosexuals are going to hell because they commit adultery, which is against one of the ten commandments. I know that didn't make any sense, but hear me out. According to Shirley, who is the pastor of their church, she believes that there are a lot of married men out there having homosexual relationships, and thus are committing adultery. All those people who support gay rights should also go to Hell, because such an act should not be accepted in "God's Perfect World". I am not lying about her claims here, you can watch the video below yourself and make your own decisions about this twisted human being. But of course, when on Tyra Banks' talk show, she changed her mind about saying how much she loves homosexuals, though she still thinks that they are going to Hell either way. Her main issue with dead American soldiers who died in Iraq is that because America accepts homosexuals, fighting for a Hell-bound country like America is, then, a sinful act. Parents that brought up these soldiers are also headed for Hell the moment they die, no questions asked, unless they join their church and hate homosexuals all over the world. 

First of all, I do agree that going to Iraq is a ridiculous idea. It is probably the war that makes the least sense out of all the wars known to mankind. Yet, these soldiers didn't actually have much of a choice when they were sent over there, it was their duty to do what the country needed. Even for those that volunteered to go to Iraq, it was to defend their country against terrorism, to maintain America's freedom, or at least that is what they were told before the left. To say that they are going to Hell because they fought for a country that embraces equality and tolerance amongst different minority groups just disgusts me to no end. These repulsive maggots are twisting the Bible to serve their own twisted purposes, and it is worse than her eleven children think the same as way her. Great, next generation of religious psychopaths on the lose, and we aren't doing anything to shut down the church either. These children are going to grow up to be the same brand of lunatics as their mother, and they are all going to hate homosexuals just because, wait, some of them are married men and they commit adultery?

Now, wait just a minute here. So, you hate homosexuals because some married men go around the streets to have sex with other married men, and thus all homosexuals should go to Hell. Something isn't right here. Some of those rapists and child-molesters are fathers too, so should we also say that all fathers are going to Hell, even yourself and your husband? Or, let's just say that some child-abusers are mothers, should all mothers then be doomed to Hell as well? I think my mother is a great person, I think she has led a life being true to herself and her family. She hasn't done anything that'd put her in the path of Hell, as far as I am concerned. So, should all mothers be doomed to Hell as well? Any person who commits a crime is the son or the daughter of somebody else, so should all sons and daughters be doomed to Hell? Doesn't that include everybody? It is laughable to brand religious arguments with words like "logic", when religion itself is anything but. You don't make a ridiculous claim and then say that it is "logic", and that it is "right". But then again, that is what religion does anyway. They give you a fairy tale, and then tell you that it is the truth. I get it now. 

So, all homosexuals are supposed to go to Hell, why is that? Whatever happened to equality and tolerance when it comes to religion, shouldn't that be what you really should be preaching instead of all the hate. If your brand of Hell involves treating homosexuals equally and with tolerance, then Hell really doesn't seem like such a bad place at all. Seriously, whatever is a "fag-enabler" anyway? Do you people actually stop in your tracks sometimes to think about just how crazy and stupid you sound? Oh, of course not. You spend most part of your life studying and interpreting the Bible, when it really is just a really thick storybook with a very bad story line. If God truly hates homosexuals and a country that embraces them, then this God isn't the kind of God I'd like to worship at all. If he pride and prejudice against the minority is going to manifest itself in social scumbags like yourself, then I'd rather stay true to what I believe in and be doomed to Hell. These religious nut jobs should really be shot one by one, but be raped in prison first in all their butt holes. 

I know a couple of homosexual people, and they are really no different from everybody else that I know. I don't know any male homosexuals though, mostly just female homosexual or bisexuals. They are just like you and I, and they don't go around raping people and burning down houses for no reasons at all. They love members of the same sex, which is really the only difference between them and myself. I have no problems with that, in fact I think it is a very natural thing, provided that they do not see me as a potential partner. There is this girl from junior college that I got to know, and let's just say that she leans towards the boyish side of things. She was the president of my guitar club, very competent and very capable in her job as well. In fact, she is probably one of the nicest people I know. So she likes girls, but there really isn't anything wrong with that. Her love for another girl is just like the love that a man and a woman shares, there isn't any difference in between at all. So why should she be condemned to Hell whereas some of the other so-called "normal relationships" shouldn't? 

These people disgust me, they really do. If this is what religion does to people, I'd rather stay clean. It is like a drug to me, kind of like Vicodin, the painkiller. You take certain amounts of Vicodin, and it relieves you pain - everything is fine. But you go overboard, you take a little more than your prescribed amount, and you are addicted to it for life. Only, a painkiller addiction really only hurts you, and perhaps the direct circle of friends and family around you to a certain degree. Religion, however, spreads like some kind of viral infection through generations after generations. You have one generation of religious nuts, the subsequent generations are probably going to be brought up and taught the same twisted values about the world. How do you spread a message of love when you have so much hate? That is pretty much the same reasons why the Crusades started anyway. In the name of "saving" and "rescuing" the people of the world, so many more were killed and slaughtered - what's the point in that? You don't fight hatred with more hatred, you just don't. What saddens me the most is the way her children are probably going to grow up to be as crazy as herself, and people are always going to laugh and point fingers at them because of how crazy and ignorant they are.