Archive for January, 2008

“Heath Ledger chose to promote the vile sin of sodomy in defiance of God’s law. No one made him play a faggot cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain”. No one made him kiss another man, in a flagrant attempt to further desensitize not only americans but Bible-illiterate fools the world over to the filthy depravity that is faggotry. He chose to do that all on his own. He could have used that bully pulpit he has to promote the cause of God and truth instead. God has repaid him to his face for his filth. Thank God for His Justice. All who flaunt God’s law can expect the same. Amen.” (Pastor Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church).

This is a perfect example of why I am an atheist. Religion is a plague. It infects our schools, our government, and is fighting a losing battle against the science community. This infestation causes me to write a sermon in a public school. Entire religions are based on one book of fiction. I don’t believe there is an entity that gives one iota, whether you blow up the WTC, or win the Super Bowl. I resent that people hand over their personal responsibilities on a silver platter to “God”.
You believers have brought more destruction on this Earth than natural disasters. Do you remember the Inquisition? Religion is like a white board, you can rewrite or erase anything you don’t like. What about the Jihad? You have consistently hunted, tormented, drowned, tortured, and/or sacrificed anyone who believed differently, like a plague for which there is no vaccine. You’re like bees, you suck up the nectar out of somebody’s life, then convert them into your honey. For example, you Roman Catholics spent years persecuting the Jews. And you Puritans found delightful ways to rid yourselves of people who you thought were witches.
If you can’t all follow one religion, (which we know will never happen) you need to, at the very least, be more accepting to those who do not feel or believe the same way as you. If “God” accepts people the way they are, why do you have to convert nonreligious people? Build on your strengths like community service, social gatherings, music and art, and leave the hate behind. There are positives in religions, but they do not outweigh the negatives. Take after the Amish, live your belief without hypocrisy and stop trying to convert everyone else.
All this hate can only result in world destruction. Who decides the best religion; who is the winner? If extraterrestrials came to visit us, would you still believe in “God”? If Jihads don’t kill us all, who is to say that some other person, entity, or religion won‘t bring the end to us all? What happens if someone like Pastor Phelps got his hands on a nuclear bomb? Don’t you think that would finally make us all the same… dead?

Ginnie Walker