Atheist Meditations

At the new job today, during an unusually boring meeting, someone had the bright Idea of helping to ensure our privacy by playing some music and pointing the speakers out the door. Suffice to say, that same individual thought that KTIS (one of the many fucking christian stations that pollute our airwaves up here in Minnesota) would be a choice we could all agree on - hey, at least it's not rap. So after almost two blissful months of mental peace; the old wounds have not healed a bit. I tried to focus on the content of the meeting, but like I said it was unusually boring.

I just fucking hate that music. Even if we ignore the large percentage that's just ripped off fag rock - change 'my boyfriend' to 'my savior' and you've got a hit - even if we ignore the blatent homosexual longing, the music centers around themes that I don't think are at all manly. "I can only imagine. . . when I worship you. . . I can only Imaaagine." Bollicks.

What ever happened to fucking masculinity?!?

That's my biggest problem with evangelical males, they just don't seem to have that fire in their eyes. Like, I'm pretty liberal and don't have a problem being around gays, but when I first meet one, I guess I just kinda like to know one way or the other. What they used to call the 'gaydar'. I always thought I had pretty acute gaydar. Then the weenie little evags started popping up all over the place. They stand too close to ya. They make too much eye contact and seem too comfortable with the proximity. They seem too interested in what you have to say . . .

I was about to compliment my friend Ch- on being so laid back with so many gay friends when I realized my gaydar was all fucked up. These young men with the meticulously manicured facial hair and a sense of 'flair' in their dress were not homosexual - they were evangelical. They didn't want me to touch their penis, they wanted us to touch Jesus' penis together.

Masculine men do not want to share emotional experiences with other men. Sure, maybe in the second or third year of a fucking World War, men might tell each other they love them - but that's certainly the exception to the rule. Evag men, having been convinced to lower their guard to experience a sensation of love that requires singing and make-believe about some sexy messiah with abs of steel, yearn for an emotional experience that just ain't natural. I ain't down with that.

Off on a total tangent to the program on maximum security prisons that Cindy and I watched last night.

Inmate after inmate spoke the same truth: 'It's a shark tank in here, there are no fish. Somebody disrespects you and you have to respond. If you don't, you weak and you gonna die. That's just the way it is, you gotta accept that.'

That's just the way it is, you gotta accept that. This has been true for 99.99% of all males that might ever be catagorized as members of homo sapiens. It was true when we were citizens of Rome, it was true when we were homesteaders in the West. It was true when I went to High School, although the consequences for failing to stick up for yourself and your tribe were a little less than fatal.

It you'z a young man in Iraq right now it sure as fuck still stands. If the world identifies you with the Sunni then you better be a Sunni who demands respect. Cuz if you ain't, what brother Sunni is going to put his balls on the line to stand up for ya. Death squads do those guys with power drills, it's fucking real over there.

Here in America we have a generation that has no fucking clue, and the evag is the weakest of that progeny.

Final point: I think that we should take the right to vote away from religious fundamentalists.

We don't let the mentally retarded vote, do we? Certainly most states do not allow felons to vote, even twenty years after they've 'paid their debt'. Why should we allow evags to vote?

I believe that the burden of citizenship gets heavier for each generation. The world gets bigger and more complicated. The access to information increases and the number of Ideas out there explodes exponentially. We've got more history to sift through and better takes on the lessons that need to be learned. The sacrifices of the Greatest Generation are not intended to be dissed, but if they gave all that then what have we done? Spend three or four hours a week reading up on modern history and alternative media?

Evags are not members of our society. The 'christian' founding fathers that they worship are not the real men who founded this country, they created a ficticious fantasy. They discount all forms of media that we real Americans contend with, and instead wallow in a 'christian' media filled with lies and purposeful misinterpetations. They don't even accept fucking science, the foundation for just about everything modern in the last two hundred years, to them the scientific method is just another competing religious dogma.

How do we interact with these people?

And since their interaction in the political arena has been so destructive, how do we deal with a whole subsection of the population that is not loyal to the values of a liberal democracy. They can't be reasoned with, they have radio stations that repeat all day long how they are the just like the jews, a persecuted chosen people, and how all liberals want to destroy gawd.

I don't think that any of the puppets in Mr. Rodger's neighborhood got to vote. If a modern evag male wants to live in a world a make-believe and only trust the leaders of his chosen group. . .

That's my final rant, that's what pisses me off the most about the pussys who call themselves 'christian men.' Men get angry when someone lies to their face or disrespects them. Getting angry is not a sin, sometimes it is the natural response to some dumbass who needs a lesson in when to shut the fuck up.

Pat Robertson is a corrupt bastard who uses charity helicopters to move mining equipment around to his diamond mines. The Rev. Ted Haggard was probably using church funds for gay liasons - my gaydar says he's totally into queer sex. While Bush and Rove have referred to the evangelicals as 'wackos' more times than I can count.

Where's the outrage?!? When does the average evag open his window and shout, 'I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!'? When does he at least take the time to ponder if maybe his religious worldview might not make a whole lot of sense?

When do they grow up? It's fucking 2006, six years into a Bush presidency that's been a horror show. Or do we have to take away their right to vote?

America has been free for over 200 years, and I'm not just going to sit on my liberal ass while these fucking douchebags sacrifice every liberal right and liberty we fucking have in the hopes that it will make Jesus come back sooner.

Can you only imagine how great America could be if every evag male's balls' dropped tommorow?