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They do have their right to do it, just as those scientologists you love have the right to do what they do. I just am very suspicious of the motives of a church that endorses candidates for president. Its too political and, for the record, if a church wants to become political they do lose the right to be shielded from certain things (mostly taxes) as a legal church, because in America, we have a strict code seperating church and state. I just think any religious minority should be a little suspicious of a certain religion attempting to take power so they can call the country "a christian nation." FUCK that, its a secular nation.
My point with Gator isn't that the church made him do it. My point is that being a born again christian did nothing to help him, and that there is probably a good deal of evidence that these stories of imaginary deities probably made him feel justified in his hatred of others as "sinners" whom "God has already judged." Daniel Johnston too. Born again christian, every time he snapped its always been about the devil and how people have the devil inside of them. If they weren't religious would they be crazy? Probably. Did religion help them? Not at all. Could it have even made things a little worse? I think so. I'm sure George Bush thinks its ok to kill Iraqis because we are christian and they are not, and that God is guiding him to do go, because after all, he's christian, so he must be right!
What pisses me off is that now you hear whisper campaigns about Obama being a muslim, which isn't true, but shouldn't matter. But still, a lot of people, believe he is, and won't vote for him because they think he's not christian. That's a type of prejudice that is on the rise, and has been unchecked.
Also, prostylization (sure I spelled it wrong, but whatever) is an arrogant, prejudiced way of saying "I am better than you because of my religion, join me or be ostracized. I don't like it anywhere, even if it is just one page in a magazine.
But it's not just Christians doing this. Muslims have killed just as many people for being a different religion or denomination than their own. And Atheists have done the same thing to Christians, just not as numerous since there isn't as much of them. My neighbors were "die hard" Christians and Satanists would smash their property, kill their animals, etc. You shouldn't just single out one religion for acts that they've all done.
Shut the fuck up! Next your going to tell me that black people oppress white people just as much as white people oppress black people. And its bullshit! Don't tell me about how much it sucks to have to deal with a little bit of vandalism when I have no extended family, because they were all killed in the Holocaust thanks to some overzealous, ignorant christians.
Muslims have not killed even a tiny fraction as many people in the name of religion! Not even a fraction! Do you understand how North and South America were settled by European people? They killed everybody over here under the justification that they were non-christian savages. Then there is the holocaust, the spanish inquisition, groups in America like the KKK, and the crusades, which involved Christians invading muslim land because they thought they deserved the holy land over people that again they considered savages.
The Christian religion hasn't been oppressed since roman times. Sorry you get a little bit of shit from time to time, but I doubt any non-christian has ever told a christian that they shouldn't be here because of their religion. I feel that everytime George Bush reminds me that he thinks America is a "Christian nation" despite the fact that we were founded by deists.
I don't think John McCain tried so hard to get an evangelical preist who said New Orleans deserved Katrina to endorse him because evangelicals are oppressed. I think its because they consistently attempt to sway voters and those priests have cult followings of politicized evangelicals.
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