To you believers who aren’t crazy….
Two families, one has killed their daughter, the other is doing their best to kill their son.
They are, without doubt, fanatics, but…
To the ‘moderates’ who talk about how the fanatics get it all wrong/disgrace your faith/or whatever, to all you people out there who go to church and believe in a god that mucks around in the world, to everyone who thinks religion is a beautiful thing to be encouraged and faith a thing to be proud of:
You
encourage
this.
The same way homophobes who don’t beat gays to death encourage those who do.
The same way people who just didn’t want to be around black people encouraged lynchings.
The same way the hate-mongers on the radio encourage actual violence.
You
enable
this.
Look at yourself, right now.
You spread ignorance and lies.
You beg for people to live in illusion and blindness.
Look at yourself.
Sphere: Related ContentI have to say something that is heartfelt, and is also meant to offend. I do not absolve you mealy-mouthed moderates, I do not regard your beliefs as harmless. If Colleen Hauser or Leilani Neumann were in your church, you’d tell them to get medical care, but you’d also validate their belief in prayers. You would provide the soothing background muzak that says prayer is good, prayer is virtuous, prayer will connect you to the great lord who can do anything, prayer will give you solace in your time of worry. You would not raise your voice to say that prayer is useless, prayer is self-defeating, that while prayer might make you feel better while your child is suffering, that is no virtue. You pray yourselves. You think it is a noble and generous act for your representatives to prowl the corridors of hospitals, preying on the desperation of the sick. You abase yourselves before false hopes, and sacrifice human dignity on an altar built from the bones of the dead. You would spread the poison, piously excusing yourselves because you only want to administer sub-lethal doses.
You are Abraham’s enablers. I hope you all feel a small tremor of guilt when you sit your own children down at bedtime to beg a nonexistent being for aid, when you plant the seed of futile supplication and surrender to delusions in their trusting minds. Damn you all.
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2 Comments:
It seems you have identified two believing camps at this point:
1. The believers who would openly support this
2. The believers who would sit silently by and effectively do wrong through inaction
What about those who would openly condemn what these people are doing?
These families are sicker than their poor children. I got tired of the news blabbing about swine flu and other idiocy. It appears I missed something worth getting enraged about.
JW
7:38 am
I actually see this as the almost inevitable result of religion. If I am a fanatical believer, every time I see someone going to church, I’m getting sort of a wink and a nod. I’m being validated.
Most of these fanatics never do anything harmful, per se.
But after a lifetime of being told that their faith is reasonable on some level, how can we be surprised when they DO do something insane?
By the time we condemn these people, its far too late. They’ve had a lifetime of being told that they are not insane, just a little vigorous in their faith, but the faith itself is just fine.
We’ve given the thumbs up to their insanity.
But you are right, these families are sick. I nearly blew a gasket when I heard about the neumann case, nearly cried as I imagined that poor girl just wishing her parents would help her.
But, of course…
The scary thing here, as I’ve said before, is that these people have more children. Further, in their minds they are playing with eternal souls and any price paid here on earth pales in comparison to the afterlife.
moleboy
7:46 am