this is a good reason. there are plenty more though. like, why would a loving sky daddy damn his subjects to eternal suffering, especially if their non-belief is rooted in something arbitrary, something they never had a choice in to begin with... like... er... um.... GEOGRAPHY?
of course it is. and of course the zebra means about as much to a child as the figurative "satan"... or the highly embellished "jesus".
kids are kids.
they don't know any better. but they listen to mom and dad and elders cuz that's what they're hardwired to do, much like bees are hardwired to make honey for the queen, why lindsay lohan is hardwired to embarrass herself and her family ad nauseum.
LEAVE OUR CHILDREN ALONE, DELUSIONOIDS!
let them gather the evidence then make their own decisions.
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard."
-- Carl Sandburg
it would also be too damned stupid.
think of those people who live on the other side of the world, who live in the amazonian forests, the australian outback -- those unexposed to the inane (and insane) traditions of the church. they deserve to rot in hell too? because of fucking geography?
it cracks me up that so many people are "concerned" about my soul, my eternal life.
well, fuck, as far as i know, there is no such thing as a "soul" (PROVE IT!), no such thing as eternal life (FUCKING PROVE THAT SHIT!) and after all, it seems those people are only concerned so they can make themselves feel better... about themselves.
religion is a selfish, suffocating, intelligence-zapping disease.
democrat (for the most part), environmentalist, abortionist, fornicator, gambler, pervert (not the bad kind though, just your normal pervert), idolater (i have a thing for putting albert pujols up on a pedestal), liberal, high falutin (he spelled it wrong), sophisticated swine and sports nut.
whew.
but, i gotta agree, "emos" and "loud mouth women" are the worst.
i remember being at my grandma's one summer, i was probably 10 or 11. benny hinn came on and he started doing his crazy "miracles". dumbfounded, mesmerized, entranced, i turned to grandma for guidance... is this real? is he really doing that?
my grandma -- simple-minded, small-town grandma -- said, "that's bull honky. that ain't any realer than a five armed catfish".
benny hinn preys on the weak. the dumbfounded, mesmerized, entranced idiots who have never bothered to have an independent thought. it's a sad as it is fucking insane.
that is fucking bullshit. but slayer will let you think they are satanic. 'cuz it sells units.
what it actually is is reason. non-belief in bullshit. the logical, free-thinking world.
sometimes when i run i play this album on high and run hard as hell. i'm running hard because i feel like at any minute the religious are gonna blow everything up.
but it is not NEARLY as fucking crazy as the real bible... y'know, the one that said all the animals in all the world got on a boat and floated around for several years while the earth was covered in water.
any investigative work on the history of heavy metal band slayer will net the investigator zero instances where band members align themselves with satanic practices.
but christians would like you to believe that.
they'd also like you to believe that they are nazi apologists (they're not) and anti-american (again, they're not).
in fact, if slayer is anything, it is smart as fucking smart can be.
there are a bazillion heavy metal bands, but none attack the church as adamantly as slayer; and in doing so they have created an unparalleled buzz that permeates both the religious and non-religious worlds.
as an impressionable youth trapped in the archaic dogma of the christian church, i didn't even know who or what slayer was until a sunday school teacher brought it up (this is in the early 90s if memory serves me right).
"they are satanic and they are intent on destroying christianity" she said.
so, of course, like any other curious kid, as soon as i got the chance i went out and bought their tape. and i fell in love with it; because i love parody and slayer is definitely parody. believe that.
and remember, there is no such thing as bad press. the soiled image of slayer branded by the church to stop people from listening to them only caused more people (the curious, the rebels, etc.) to listen to to them.
personally, i don't even pay attention to the lyrics (i can't understand half of them) but soaking in their guitar licks and their drop tuning and their thrashing symphony of sound has long been a favorite way for me to blow off steam. and besides, i do enjoy the looks i get when i -- the last person on earth you'd ever seriously consider to harbor metal head tendencies -- scream out "GOD HATES US ALL!"
i write the world... among other things.
it's over 4 billion years old, so there's a lot of shit to write... and i like getting your emails:
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