Note 1: I will not hide my disdain for Christians in this blog.
Just the other day, my boyfriend accepted the challenge to debate a Christian named Ray Comfort on the topic "Is there a God" (you may know RC from the show he does with Kirk Cameron. Yes, as in Growing Pains). Unfortunately, blowing Kirk Cameron doesn't give you super powers, and so he lost. Aww.
The Christians in the lecture hall where the debate took place, did what I've always seen them do: get pissed when someone pokes holes in their creepy world view. They got mean and rude. They condascended and maliciously joked. As Sam was leaving the stage, one of them said "I really hope you don't have to burn." Shyeah, I'm sure.
After the debate, Sam (the BF) got cornered by these other 2 Jesus freaks, who proceeded to tell him that all great civilizations have arisen within the last 5000 years (completely negating a whole bunch of cultures, including Australia's aborigines, as well as those of the Americas, China and Africa), that carbon dating was nonsense, that the Bible was the most historically accurate text in history, and other similarly bullshit claims. I - the recovering Christian, the girl who was a Sunday School teacher for 7 years, the same girl who cried and begged for forgiveness every time she masturbated from the age of 7 to 15 - managed to remain composed for the entirety of the debate, but this repartee really, really got me pissed.
Let me pause for a moment, and tell you why I'm pissed: Christianity is NOT some benign belief system. Religion involves politics, power, the fight against human rights and progress on a real, human level. When we think of abortion, reproductive health education, the pill, gay rights, stem cell research, and science, Christians stand on the wrong side of every one of these issues. They oppose policy (and behavior) that improve the quality of life for everyone. And these people aren't just sitting at home with their chastity belts on baking cookies, people. They're voting, protesting, lobbying, contributing to campaign spending. They're indoctrinating their children, and they're also just being fucking annoying.
So, are Christians the anti-Christ? Virgie says yes. :)
P.S. Christians definitely hate vaginas. Are you gonna stand for that?
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6 comments:
My girlfriend would love you XD
Wow you were right...they were nasty to him. Nice loving folks they are.
Wow, you really cried every time you masturbated for 8 years? That's harsh.
No I'm not! I'm going to walk right into my family's church and scream at the top of my lungs, "I LOVE VAGINA! And I don't care what your 3000 year old Death Cult thinks about it!"
No I'm not! I'm going to walk into my family's church and shout, "I LOVE VAGINAS! And I don't care what your 3000 year old nomadic death cult thinks about it!"
I stumbled onto your posting while hunting down a video on YouTube of Richard Dawkins's comments about the dinosaur bones in Liberty University's museum which are claimed, there, to be only 3,000 (or so) years old. The fellow who posted the very video I sought had a link in one of his blog postings to your boyfriend's blog; and your boyfriend had a link to your posting here... hence how I got here. Before leaving, I want to say...
It is a crying shame that the ultra-right, bible-thumping, psyche-damaging so-called "Christians" have co-opted Christianity to the point that you are able to state such as what you wrote in your paragraph containing the phrase "Religion is NOT some benign belief system." Indeed, you are right: It is not. And, indeed, you're right about all the things, rightly or wrongly, it has come to involve.
But you are grossly inaccurate -- though I concede clearly not maliciously so -- to make such sweeping statements as that "Christians stand on the wrong side of every one of these issues." Or that Christians "hate vaginas." What a tragedy it is that what some Christians did to you has brought you to this place.
It is the ultra-right who have co-opted Christianity who believe these things... and who have harmed you. But there is an entire world of progressive Christians who are appalled by what has been done to you... and who don't cry when they masturbate.
Visit the web site of "The Center for Progressive Chrisitianity" (www.tcpc.org) and you will see that there is no shortage of those who, like me, abhor the black eye which the religious right has given to Christianity; and who espouse a more reasonable, more loving, more ecumenical version.
Or read virtually any book by retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong; or retired professor, theologian and author Marcus Borg.
Or read the speech I gave last November during the national day of protest against California's Proposition 8 (www.tinyurl.com/deselms-prop-8-speech) and see if those seem like the words of what appear to be the only kind of Christians that you happen ever to have known.
It is a mistake to paint with such broad strokes. Please do a better job of identifying the enemy. I am a Christian, and I am deeply saddened by what some on the misguided far-right have done to you in the name of my faith.
Please know that such as they do not speak for the likes of me...
...we who, I assure you, positively *love* vaginas.
Peace.
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