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Tuesday, May 13, 2003


iLoo a Hoax???

It would appear so...



for some reason I feel a bit sad about it though...


I want a coliseum. Complete with man-eating animals and a bevy of terrified Christians...

Ok, maybe not really. I do a lot of Christian bashing on this blog. Maybe it's wrong of me and maybe I'll end up in hell for it but then again, I just feel they deserve it. Take this story for instance. Scary stuff if you ask me. Yet no one seems to have a problem with this. Kids are shuttled off like sheep to a three-day revival to learn peace tolerance and the joy of "God's Love." Then they get to come back and intimidate, bully, and abuse those that do not follow their beliefs. WOW. Now is that some good old Christian beliefs and family values or what. What is wrong with a world that first off follows blindly any religion without question or contemplation and second don't we have a separation of church and state? I'm pretty sure that's in our constitution. Yet it is being promoted in our schools children are allowed to be absent from class all so they can say amen on cue and get saved from the moral decay that is the American freedom and way of life. Good thing those kids are saved cause now they can know they are doing the right thing when they call her "Satan worshipper and accused of eating babies when it was revealed she was a pagan. She said she was taunted, found slurs painted over her locker and was injured when classmates assaulted her and slammed her head into the locker." Now if that ain't peace and love then I don't know what is.

What bothers me the most about this is it got so bad they actually had to pull the girl out of school. Here is a child who does quite well and is now being denied her right to an education because the school system feels it's more important to spread the word of god then uphold basic human rights. This infuriates me, probably more than it should, but I just can't help myself. When I see things like "After Christmas break in early 2002, India said three boys chased her down a hall at Horace Maynard Middle School, grabbed her by the neck and said, "You better change your religion or we'll change it for you." I can't help but get mad. It makes me want to sit triumphantly in my emperor's booth and look down at my pagan gladiators hold aloft my hand as the crowd falls to a hushed silence then listen to the frenzy as my thumb turns squarely down. But I'm not bitter.


 
 

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