Yes, I’ve been reading again. Dangerous activity, I know, but I do it all the same. This time, I’ve been reading God Under Howard by Marion Maddox. I’m almost finished and it’s a fascinatingly disturbing read.
Now, whilst I’m not opposed to religion itself per se, I do object to religion being used to manipulate people and attain such power and influence that they can distort our democratic society into hatred and racism.
I will not tolerate a theocracy, no matter which religion is behind it.I might be a marginal “weirdo” of society, but that doesn’t make me any less an Australian citizen than “normal” people. I’m a decent human being who doesn’t do drugs, believes in the truth, and I have my own set of faith-based and non-faith-based values and morals by which I live my life. I have compassion for those not as fortunate as I. I believe human rights should be fought for, valued and protected, not abused “in the national interest.”
Should a Christian theocracy ever take over this country, I’d probably end up ostracised, dead or as a refugee somewhere else. The kind of Christians pushing for a theocracy are not the sort that would ever tolerate me as a human being.
And, see, it’s been a movement on an evolutionary time scale. No big upheavals, take overs, coups or anything like that. They use words, they manipulate, they disguise themselves to infiltrate their targets. They’re sneaky bastards, they are. They always use doublespeak. They say one thing and mean something else.
They slowly erode our defences and weasel their way in, taking little by little so that we don’t notice what they’ve nicked. Everything can be justified as being “in the national interest”, whatever that is. National security is all important. Nothing stands in the way of defending our borders, not even boatloads of poor refugees fleeing countries much worse than ours, seeking compassion and a new life and getting razor wire instead.
It’s disgusting. This country disgusts me. It saddens me that, should nothing change any time soon, if I end up falling in love with a girl, I may never be able to marry her in the country of my birth. That “marriage is between a man and a woman” has been enshrined in law frightens me. It’s just another example of “Christian” values infiltrating legislation and becoming law.
Why is it we see no problem with Christian teachings becoming law, but abhor the strict Muslim sharia law or even, is there a Jewish one too? Religious law being enshrined into federal law and in doing so imposing those beliefs on the entire population stinks and is, to me, a bad corruption of democracy, which some of these Christian nutters want to replace with theocracy.
I see no distinction between fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims, who are meant to be “the enemy”. That more moderate Christians aren’t as dismissive of these fundamentalist Christians as they should be scares me. I would love to see moderate liberal Christians standing up and saying, “These people are not what Christianity is about. Christianity is a religion of peace,” and rejecting the Religious Right’s nutcase views. But I very much doubt that will happen any time soon.
I know it sounds paranoid to say this, but it does feel like everyone’s too scared to speak out and dissent, which a democracy gives them the right to do. DO. NOT. STAY. SILENT. Do not let free voices be silenced and our country led astray. Dear Netjer, let some sense be injected into those in power.
I do not blame the Australian people for succumbing to this and letting it happen. It isn’t their fault. They (mostly) didn’t ask for this. It’s a small select group of Christians that have done this, and they are the Christians I hate, as much as it pains me to say so, because I don’t hate lightly.
Okay, maybe ‘hate’ is the wrong word.
I don’t like what they’re doing and what they stand for. But I can’t keep silent. It’s too hard to stay silent any longer. Someone needs to wake up the nation and bring them back to their senses. I feel like a doomsday guy, walking around the streets of the city with a sandwich board on, crying out that the end of democracy is nigh, and all the while, I’m dismissed as a nutter and ignored.
Don’t you know what’s being done to this country? Wake the fuck up! Wake up from your materialistic slumber and live again!
*sighs*
I’ve been hanging with Discordians too much. I’m beginning to think they’re the only sane people left in the world. :/