#intellectual post

I grew up in Georgia and my parents are pretty religious so like the extreme majority of black folks in the south, I grew up going to church. Not because I believed in what I was being told but because my parents basically told me "you're going to church." It was a one-sided discussion. As I get older I realize that I personally have absolutely no use for organized religion. On the other hand we all have our own beliefs and those beliefs come from a lot of different places so I have absolutely no problem with anyone who's devoutly religious. Honestly, I think that it's a good thing that some people believe because a lot of people based on their life circumstances need something to believe in. It keeps them going and gives them hope when nothing else will; I see that at work every single day. But goddammit, I am absolutely, positively sick of these conservative christians to the point of exhaustion. The south (especially the deep south) is so full of smug, arrogant, sanctimonious, hypocritical, judgmental, insincere, holier-than-thou, "my shit don't stink" bible thumpers that I automatically think less of anyone who describes themselves as evangelical or religiously conservative. They mistake not being able to discriminate against other people based on their personal religious beliefs as religious persecution. They believe in religious freedom only when it comes to christianity. They mistake not being able to force prayer in schools to religious persecution. They cherry-pick bible verses and passages to justify what they claim they believe in and then have the nerve to get mad because you call them out for cherry-picking bible verses. I'm as liberal as it gets on a lot of issues but Barry Goldwater said it best: These people are a cancer on American politics. And I am not saying that all Christians behave that way: I know quite a few truly tolerant and loving religious people and the're the ones that we really need more of in American society. I wish that they had a larger voice. But the extreme right-wing hatemonger types make it impossible for me to take them seriously.

ALL DIS PORN BE ON MY DASH!

Puso