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docwebster) wrote2004-12-23 03:30 pm
docwebster) wrote2004-12-23 03:30 pm
Straw. Camel. Back.
Okay, kiddies, here's where I rant about religious tolerance.
You all know exactly where I stand on the Religious Reich and their ilk. But if you want to irritate the living bejeezus out of me, even though I find you in all other respects an intelligent and interesting person, sneer and worse at people who don't practice your particular religion exactly the way you do.
So yeah, they practice Religion X and have a - shall we say - spacier and bubblier take on things than you do. So. The. Fuck. What. As I have said before and will say a thousand times over again and again until people get it through their skulls, you either give respect or you don't deserve respect. Period. End of story.
If they aren't actually harming anything in general or you in particular, shake your head if you must but dry up and let them go their way or you're in your way no better than some fucked up Pentecostal yobbo with a hairdo that could repel ICBMs at close range getting all pompous about some other Christian who doesn't go at things as hardcore as they do.
I really didn't need this crap (even though it wasn't aimed at me even remotely) today, and will probably be okay once I have some Yerba Mate, but I just had to get that out of my system because it's been coming to the boil for months on end.
You all know exactly where I stand on the Religious Reich and their ilk. But if you want to irritate the living bejeezus out of me, even though I find you in all other respects an intelligent and interesting person, sneer and worse at people who don't practice your particular religion exactly the way you do.
So yeah, they practice Religion X and have a - shall we say - spacier and bubblier take on things than you do. So. The. Fuck. What. As I have said before and will say a thousand times over again and again until people get it through their skulls, you either give respect or you don't deserve respect. Period. End of story.
If they aren't actually harming anything in general or you in particular, shake your head if you must but dry up and let them go their way or you're in your way no better than some fucked up Pentecostal yobbo with a hairdo that could repel ICBMs at close range getting all pompous about some other Christian who doesn't go at things as hardcore as they do.
I really didn't need this crap (even though it wasn't aimed at me even remotely) today, and will probably be okay once I have some Yerba Mate, but I just had to get that out of my system because it's been coming to the boil for months on end.
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But I agree in principal and for all individual cases. It is the aggregate that scares me.
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