I am going to take a break from being pissed for a little bit. Today I am scared. I am scared for everyone who is non-christian in this country. Those images above represent a time in history when the christians thought it was the will of god to burn people at the stake for being witches. And they took it upon themselves to do so and did it very efficiently, I might add. Before that it was the Spanish Inquisition and the Jesuits and their Convert-or-Die missions to heathen countries like South and Central America and Japan.
Now it's legislation. Starting to write christian values and dogma into the constitution of the united states. It starts with a judge and a statue of the 10 commandments in a courthouse and now it has gone as far as the president and defining marriage for the whole nation. What's next? When the legality of discrimination based on belief is carved into the stone of our constitution where will we of the minority go for redress? Who will speak for us when we are no longer allowed to speak for oureselves? When it is not only socially acceptable but legal to say, "You don't believe as we do, so you have no rights."
With Mel's movie coming out, I watch on the news the eyes of the people leaving the theater. I see there the righteous justification for their belief that they are the "chosen" of god. That god has given them entitlement to everything because they believe in the words in the bible. I see the same zealous fire I see in the eyes of the Muslim extremists who strap dynomite to their chests and board public transportation or ram trucks full of C4 into public markets.
So today, I'm afraid. While we may never be burned at the stake again literally, there are social and cultural fires being kindled right now that we as a minority have no control over. And it scares me.
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