A friend of mine just got back from “Tennessee […] the buckle of the Southern bible belt” and wrote about his anti-Christian sermon while out there. I thoroughly enjoyed his piece and definitely sympathize with his word of “God” via mouth-of-man experience. The piece really hit home. I ended up writing a very long comment on his page and decided to share my response to him with you guys.
Below is a copied excerpt of his quick rundown of what was said:
“1) AIDS is the wrath of God sent down to punish homosexuals for their sinful ways.
2) The United States was once a God-fearing nation that stood against sins like homosexuality, but NOW the government supports homosexuality, which is why there are so many gays and lesbians coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden – and dying of AIDS every day.
3) The government supports homosexuals because homosexuals give money to politicians.
4) God created marriage in Adam and Eve as a perfect design of man and woman living together and having children. He did not create marriage for two people of the same sex to live together.”
My Response:
Travis,
I totally agree with you. God-fearing propaganda has always been at the hub of the Christian movement. They have reduced God, the most elevated of all sentinel begins, to the likeness of a grudge holding, unforgiving faulty human. I mean honestly forget George Bu’shit, Sad’a-man, Bin-la-la, etc. At the end of the day it would seem that the big G has the only monopoly on long lasting suffrage & torture of souls. I mean you’re either in his team, which oddly enough McChristians often refer to as, “his army”, or in line for eternal damnation. I know a lot of mean humans, who according to the mass produced man-edited word of “God”, are not perfect, and not one of them would ever desire the eternal torture and suffrage of anyone, maybe a black eye or quick death but that is about it. God is painted to be infallible, perfect, and all loving but we humans can not conceive notions of love that aren’t based on conditionality. Hence, we create him in “our” likeness, and choose to believe that he would create a perfect hell for those imperfect. What were those words that Mr. Protestant G.W.B. Oil Monger, Commander in Chief of the Neo-Crusaders used? I think it was, “You're either with us or against us”, sort of God’s conditional spin of purging followers, often referred to as sheep, from the independent thinkers/sinners, very McChristian God-like of him don’t you think?
Independent thinkers, liberals of sorts, have always been a thorn at the side of Christian society. We come up with all kinds of crazy notions, for example, the world being round, evolution, genetics, Blacks were humans and deserved rights, the earth spins around the sun, etc. etc. etc. Damn us! How foul of us to mess with “His” perfect plan. Had the Christians had their way, all would be well, as it should be, a centralized bible governing kingdom that has historically used words such a heathens, savages, niggers, fagots, witches, sinners, and enemy to take it upon themselves, like archangels to smite us with the word of God using whips, swords, AK47s and most dangerous of all, mass produced rhetoric.
Ultimately it would seem that only they have the key to truth, love and eternal happiness.
Imagine for a second placing that pastor in a time machine, dressed in his white-washed garbs, armed with his bible and placed before his African ancestors to speak the “truth” that the Christian has historically whipped out of so many cultures and mindsets into blood-let submission. How would both react? Who might fall to their knees and rethink God? Perhaps ask for forgiveness?
I see Christianity as an institution, which has throughout the ages plumaged, enslaved (both as servants and via profitable interests) everyone around them who varied in beliefs. They have minimized the love of the heavenly into the fear and spite of the mundane.
Do not misunderstand me I love religions, especially from an objective academic cultural context of identity. I understand that churches have had a tremendous positive affect in the areas of support and provision on a community level. However, at the core, most theologies have faltered in the overall message of LOVE and have propagated a process of indifference which none of their prophets would ever condone. And so it continues to be that we shun, separate, and kill one another in the name of a creator who has never taken it upon himself to destroy anything that had his essence, unequivocal compassion, unconditional tolerance and lastly, pure LOVE.
Love is Love, Love is Heavenly…
Below is a link to his blog:
http://www.travismontez.com/blog/
Love. Love. Love the image.
You are wonderful.
How is it that you can feel and think so many things and still have the focus and concentration to write everything down? I wish I could bring myself to do so. You're brilliant with your words. Be Blessed!
I call it emotional multi-tasking Mike.
BTW, thank you for the props.
Everything you say in this is sadly very true. when i was living in virginia (aaah! how did i ever survive?) with my "boricua family" the younger sisters would go to this church every sunday and wednesday night. so one night i went with them and i went through this process that they call "being born again." i was mad hyped and was church regular, reading my bible edited by some guy named Max. i loved it! and i felt good! up until church service came after September 11, 2001. that service was full of anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, and anti-middle eastern rhetoric i couldn't believe it. i went back the following sunday, hoping that what i had heard was just a one time mistake by Pastor Victor. (btw, this was an almost a chruch in VA with an almost entirely Puerto Rican/Nuyorican congregation and pastors). But anyway, i was wrong, the next service each person in the church was given a USer flag to show their patriotism for "God's country". I rarely returned after that... and only returned due to pressures from my hermanas boricuas and to chill with a couple friends every once and a while. It is quite sad. That church has literally torn my familia boricua apart... and ever since my little sister came out of the closet about her sexuality, they refuse to have anything to do with her and are constantly trying to get me to "talk to her about it". Very sad! McChristians - perfect name!
oh yeah... forgot to mention Pat Robertson's telling his flock that "we should assassinate" a democratically elected president of a sovereign country... because he supposedly harbors communists and muslim extremists!
hmmm...
Damn you McChristians!