Earlier tonight I was reminded of something

[ssurgul]

I hate the bulk of the Xians out there. I mean, with a fiery, burning passion. Curiously, one of the things that sparked this is a resurgence of listening to Petra, of all possible things. Petra, for those that don't know, is a Christian Rock group. I grew up with them in High School. Why am I listening to them now? Because the albums I managed to find for next to nothing were the old school guitar rock/New Wave influenced stuff. I will always love that trash.

But on a more directed note, they have some amazingly biting and scathing songs that SHOULD serve to remind the Xian populace that they're directing their energies to some amazingly wasteful topics. Attached is one of my all-time favorite warning songs by them: "Witch Hunt", off the Beat The System album. I've dealt with some deeply repressed and fucked up Xians over the years, one of my best friends in High School being one of them. As it turns out, he and cousin used to 'play' together. Yes, both are males. But neither would admit they were gay. Each went through girlfriends like water, and had many other tell-tale signs of homosexuality. But they weren't gay. That would be against God, after all.

Why do people feel this need to never grow beyond the tenets of a faulty faith, and simply accept that the interpretations handed out by some fossils in fancy robes are not necessarily the right ones. I mean, Christ himself came to rewrite the rules on who could and couldn't read/understand the Bible. He came to put people back on the path to God. He gave us some disgustingly easy rules to follow. And yet, families continually shove bad doctrine down their kids' throats because no one else is willing to pull their heads out of their asses and reshape society. Kids are the future; the morals they're instilled with are the ones they'll almost always instill in their offspring as well. Teaching repression and self-deception helps no one, save for the elusive entity: society, which can never, EVER change if we're to remain Americans, right? I point to our latest Administration Nightmare (Bushette and crew) to really understand the depths of Conservatism in this country, and how patently absurd it is in anything it preaches.

Sorry for the rantiness there. But I'm just so sick to death of watching perfectly good people flushing their happiness down the toilet solely to maintain the status quo. We've been given every reasonable and meaningful freedom in this country. But courtesy of The Church, we allow things like the Patriot Act to take over. When in doubt or fear, let someone else lead. That's always easiest. Because if Xianity itself teaches us nothing it's that Passing the Buck is a sure way into Heaven. No responsibility means no sin for wrongdoing. Yet, curiously, I don't seem to recall any passages in the Gospels where Christ came to say 'Yea verily shalt thy sit on thine ass and do only jack-nothing lest you anger the Lord your God.' Come on people. Wake up. WAKE UP. We need to take back our freedoms. We need to step forward, stand up proudly, and demand to be treated fairly, equally, and accepted for who and what we are. If there are losses on that path, then there are losses. They will simply be part of the old order that will pass into antiquity. Let them just be the final blip on the radar of repression and religion-for-its-own-sake. Stand tall and proud and simply BE WHO YOU ARE. If someone chooses to kill you for it, that's NOT a reason to have a mass hysterical panic the other way and forbid people from standing, being proud or being who you are just to try and hopefully maybe prevent killings in the future for the same thing.

"Witch Hunt"
Everybody look there's a new bandwagon in town
Hop on board and let the wind carry you around
Seems like there's not enough to keep us busy till the Lord comes back
Don Quixote's gotta have another windmill to attack

(Chorus)
Another witch hunt looking for evil wherever we can find it
Off on a tangent, hope the Lord won't mind it
Another witch hunt, takin' a break from all our gospel labor
On a crusade but we forgot our saber

There's a new way to spend all our energies
We're up in arms instead of down on our knees
Walkin' over dollars trying to find another dime
Never mind the souls 'cause we really haven't got the time

So send out the dogs and tally ho
Before we sleep tonight we've got miles to go
No one is safe, no stone's left unturned
And we won't stop until somebody gets burned
Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro Brothers

Comments

[chrissawyer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wish people would climb out of the fucking trees, and quit with the hallowed imaginary friends. And religions like christianity, and islam just beg the participants to treat others who are outside of it like SHIT.