This From "The Woman Rebel"

No More Nice Atheist

When I was in High School back in the 1960s I was a hippie commie queer. My parents tried to indoctrinate me in to the Catholic version of the sky daddy cults. I was a born anarchist who asked annoying questions of authority like, "Why should I believe that?"

Religion always seemed like a scam. Particularly in my working class town where most people busted their asses working in the paper mill, the iron mines or the small businesses. The priests got to sit around on their asses, drive nice cars and live in luxury all for saying some magic words and sticking out their hand.

I got tired of this. I was reading Camus and Sartre as well as Voltaire. I guess I was a junior in high school and some creepy Christer made a comment about how they would pray for me to see the light.

I wasn't planning on saying anything about my atheism. I was already looking into becoming a runaway because my parents kept dangling the words "Incorrigible" and "Juvenile Delinquent" over my head and suggesting I might be sent to either the state mental hospital or reform school. Being a militant atheist seemed one step closer to fucking up before I was old enough to gain my freedom.

But that was too much. Pray for me? I thought, "You self-righteous pious asshole!" I said, "Don't waste your time, there isn't any god." "No god!" "No Jesus!" No heaven, no hell!"

Gee... Think I provoked and arguments back in 1964 small town Amerika?

Now as time went on I learned that one of the joys of atheism is not having to preach.

That brings us to today when Christofascists think they can use their imaginary bully in the sky to abuse LGBT/T folks and no one has the right to say shit to them because they are doing the work of imaginary sky daddy.

From Box Turtle Bulletin:

About those “Peaceful Christians” In the Castro

Jim Burroway

November 19th, 2008

"I think it’s safe to say that Joe.My.God was at least as alarmed as I was over news reports of a so-called “Christian” group being escorted out of the Castro by a heavy protective police contingent.

Well Joe.My.God has learned that at least one of those so-called “Christians” is associated with Lou Engle, who is a pastor in the Christian Dominionist group Joel’s Army. She appeared with Engle in Kansas City to call for a “mass exodus from the demonic influence of the Castro.” Engle described the confrontation os “a confrontation of the Spirit” and called on God to “turn back this evil that is rising” in the fight against “the powers of darkness.”

Christian Dominionism is a harder-core, more violent offshoot of Christian Reconstructionism. Christian Reconstructionists are on record as calling for the biblical punishment of stoning for gays and lesbians.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified Joel’s Army as a potentially violent Dominionist group which believes that the United States “should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law.” Engle was a lead organizer of ”The Call” at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium just before the election."

After 9/11 there was a lot of blithering about Islamofascism. Scary shit like all fanaticism based in delusional thinking. Islam is not a nice religion like the Universal Unitarians. It is mean, as misogynistic as it comes, brutal towards non-believers and a death sentence to LGBT/T folks unfortunate enough to be born in an Islamofascist theocratic state.

But then The Southern Poverty Law Center made me aware of the Christofascist version. The "beam me up, Scotty" rapture bunnies live in this delusionary hope that the world will become some sort of heavy metal version of a blood bath.

Psychiatrists who spend so much time pushing the 'scientific version of bibical rule ( i.e. Gender Identity Disorder because while they don't have lesbians and gays to abuse any more it is still okay for them to milk the cash cows of transgenders and transsexuals) have ignored the mental illness of these believers in Christofascism.

There was a time in the 1970s when the psych profession actually engaged in deprogramming people who got mixed up with these extremely insane cults.

Inbred-shit- throwing-flying- monkeys like the Phelps klan are more annoying than dangerous. Joel's army are dangerous. They are well armed and hold their hate fests in these warehouse 'churches". One way to recognize these Nazis is that they often adorn their buildings with a star of David with a cross in the the hexagonal center of the star.

I would suggest looking into the permits and zoning rules governing any buildings on which this symbol crops up.

In the meantime I think it is important to not condone fath based hate. Taliban Christers just violated my civil rights big time in California.

Happy Holidays Posted by SuzyQ at 11:18 AM 0 comments