In the Name of God

The Faithless Intolerance of Christianity

I've been doing a lot of thinking about religious hostilities, who's less tolerant of who and who needs to see the light, and I think I can say wish some measure of authority that,- on the subject of who needs to change and who needs to be more tolerant and accepting,- basically everyone is wrong.

Being a Heathen of sorts, though, I've noticed that the greatest amount of hostility and direction-less rage seems to come from the Monotheist. Sure, there are plenty of people from all belief systems and all walks of life that have this kind of rage and inability to deal with the fact that there will always be people who disagree with them, but Monotheists - Christians, in particular - major in the subject.

They've got all sorts of neat ways to keep us under their thumb while trying to make us out to be the bad guy. That's right, a religion that makes up roughly 1/3 of the world's religious population is actually *hiding* behind false panic that they've spread since the last throws of the Roman empire that states that, no matter how many Christians there are, there will always be thirty times more dark, evil forces with weird gods who practice horrific Satan worship and evil magic just to tick the Christians off.

This idea that we're all trying to suck you down into hell with us is degrading, not to us but to those who perpetuate it. Think about this for a second, please. You guys are about a third of the world, you hold all of the political and religious power in the North American continent and you still try and act like you're weak, feeble and need protection from the boogey man.

What gets me is that you can't possibly not know how stupid that is. Not religiously - I have no problem with the bare bones of Monotheist religions, generally they've got good roots and a decent message, but when this message is perverted to the point where "Love Thy Neighbor" is replaced with "Lynch The Gays", you get on my radar and, honestly, I don't like it anymore than you do because I end up having to take time out of my precious life to lecture you on being freaking ridiculous, which I can do until I'm blue in the face and it's not going to make you see reason.