One would hope they were joking... but no... I fear they're really this deluded. InJesus.com member Jim Bramlett has posted a very special call for the warriors of god to protect McCain and Palin from the African Witchcraft Curses that Obama's family and friends are reportedly busy dolling out from their village in Africa.
In their defense, the "witches, warlocks and those involved in satanism and the occult" apparently get up at 3:00am every morning to release these curses which shows a great deal of dedication. Also, Senator Obama's grandmother apparently sacrificed both a black and a white chicken so the magic would convince both white and black folks to vote for him. Until now I had no idea sacrificial magic was so racist as to be segregated. While the article does explain that they're all false Christians for participating in witchcraft, it never explains how they can simultaneously be Muslim and participate in witchcraft as the two are also mutually exclusive.
In all seriousness, why are these type of beliefs given a pass in our society? This is the 21st century, not the 15th. We should all understand at this point that hearing voices and fearing curses are products of mental illness, not supernatural activity. It's not an "alternate theory", it's not a "spiritual warfare", it's a form of madness fed by a group of individuals who are either highly delusionary themselves or, more likely, keen on taking advantage of the highly suggestible. You are not warriors of god, you are nutters and you should be called out as nutters.
I don't like feeling like this. I don't like raging against a belief system because it's almost impossible to draw the line of acceptability. Are you still crazy if you only believe in a personified deity? What about if you actually hear this personified deity's voice? What if you believe this personified deity contorts the laws of physics to grant you wishes in the form of answered prayers? Where does it cease to be a remote possibility and start to become a threat? When an individual believes that I'm filled with demons? When they seek to indoctrinate my children for the good of their "eternal soul"? Do we wait until they stop merely trying to pray away the gay, and the curses, and the demons and take physical action?
At what point do we stop being politically correct and take a hard look at this? When do we begin to openly ridicule the ridiculous? I used to believe that screaming against faith as Dawkins so often does was just as intolerant as the fundamentalists screaming against us. But is it? Is screaming against uncontrolled schizophrenia intolerant? Is screaming against willful ignorance intolerant?
I just don't know anymore...
3 comments:
I've come to the conclusion that respect is earned, and faith doesn't get a free pass just because there's a bunch of people all clumped up believing the same thing.
I also think that there's nothing that a church can do for you that a knitting circle can't also accomplish, except if you join a knitting circle you end up with a hat or sweater by the end of the year.
*laughs* I like you very much.
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:D Thanks! I'm pretty reserved myself, but I think the feeling's mutual.
I've got to say that I occasionally have doubts about my disdain for religion. Is it petty? Aren't I being just as bad as them? On the other hand, religion *is* awfully silly and maybe if enough of us say it enough times, it'll finally stick.
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