Just as, when westerners enter my house, and have to take off their shoes. They have to take them off, out of respect, for my beliefs that the house is sacred. They dont go "OMG you're shoving your beliefs down my throat!!", because nothing is being shoved down their throat. They're just doing it, for my sake, so that my head won't explode. haha
----- Original Message -----
From: John Stanley
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: Religious oppression in action
right, and the only way it is gonna change is for enough people to get
pissed off about having these beliefs shoved down our throats and to stand
up and say stop it.
-----Original Message-----
From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:16 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Religious oppression in action
Obviously, there was enough religious people there to invoke such a law.
Democracy at work. I'm fine with it.
:)
----- Original Message -----
From: John Stanley
To: CF-Community
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Religious oppression in action
Yes, that's right I was forced by laws written in the past to conform to
someone elses religious views. I went into the local liquor store
yesterday
to get some cokes and some Newcastle Brown Ale, and upon trying to check
out
was informed that I could not buy the beer until after noon (it was
11:35am).
This law had to have been written out of "respect" for church going
people,
or as a way to keep people from participating in imbibing while the rest
of
the poor suckers were stuck in church. It would also explain why you
cannot
sell alcohol from 9pm on Christmas Eve until 7am on the day after
Christmas.
Get these laws off the books. They are crap and we do not need them. Next
thing you know, I will not be able to recite the pledge of allegience in
school without having to, oh wait; or I wont be able to look at the money
in
my wallet without having to be oppressed. and before you bitch that it's
okay for "god" to be on there, tell me how you feel if it instead said "In
Loki we trust", or "In Allah we trust". it's bs and everyone knows it.
This gags me, as you can probably tell.
--unrelated to rant above except for the religion bashing -- ;-)
I heard on NPR a story today about an amendment to the KY constitution
being
voted on about the gay marriage thing. They actually interviewed a woman
in
support of banning it who went on and on about how we are not living the
way
god intended us to and that the further we get away from god, the more
things get screwed up. Has she even studied history? Perhaps we can go
back
to burning people for herasy or for casting spells upon their neighbors.
Maybe we can go after scientists for claiming that the earth is round. The
further we move away from "it", the more tolerant of other people society
as
a whole gets. Whatever label you put on it, whatever nice picture you
paint
on it's face you cannot hide the centuries of fallacies and intolerance
inherent in most religions, especially amd most specifically the
"dominant"
religion here in the US.
Boy, I am in a pissy mood today....
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