A Hooker Named Chastity

This is a rant, it may have triggers 'Kay?

So, my wife did this so much better than me, but here goes the non-pc version.

I've encountered an interesting Naif.

One of those 'Christians' too terrified to take their head out of the bible and look at the world around them. The kind who seeks comfort in the absolutism of a 2000 year old world view designed to perpetuate the ruling class' control over society by invoking a Supernatural Father figure who says "Do it or I'll fucking spank you!" For all Eternity.

Opiate of the masses indeed. And I have no fucking patience for junkies, religious or otherwise.

I do not believe in an absolutist view of the world. There is a Right and a Wrong in the Universe, and the distinction is not difficult to make. If you want to be a fucking Rules-Lawyer about the Bible, that's your choice. I would think the Holy Spirit of God's Law would be more appealing, though. The Spirit that says, "Do not to others whatsoever is harmful to you, that is the whole law, all the rest is commentary."

The spirit which allows that Honour and Obey are two separate things. The marriage vows seem to understand this. It's a loophole to protect the wife from the husband, allowing her some measure of freedom.

The spirit which recognizes that we are all Human, our fathers and mothers included. And as Humans, we are NOT infallible. We can honour our parents without abiding by their wishes. We are free to do so. The spirit that can recognize Evil being performed by a Good person.

The spirit that DEMANDS we do what is RIGHT, even if it means going against our Parents.

So your cop-out response is that you're enabling someone to dishonour their parents?

What about enabling a Father to dishonour his Parents? By abandoning their faith? By denying their beliefs and proclaiming them through his actions to be false? How about proclaiming his OWN beliefs to be false through his actions? Actions YOU condone by HIDING behind scripture? Actions you KNOW are both MORALLY WRONG and ILLEGAL? This is the man you feel you must respect? You must OBEY? Honour him by getting him help! Open his eyes to the real Truth, he's sick, what he does is wrong, and he CAN be helped.

Or is it easier to condemn him to Hell? Of course it is. It takes no effort. Just shut your eyes, clap your hands over your ears and sing "Hallelujah!" to drown out the sound of your own soul screaming its rage at your weakness.

You got scared. It happens.

Turns out the world isn't the simplistic place you thought it was, that there are real horrors in this world. It happens.

You found someone you could care about. They confided in you. It happens.

You couldn't handle their reality. You got scared and ran away. You lied to yourself and them about why. You denied your fear without facing it.
It happens.

You broke their trust, abandoned them, told them their pain was unimportant, THEY were unimportant, not in words, but with your actions. And why did you do this? Because the bible told you to.

This too, happens.

It happens because you let it.

Damn the world to save your own soul? You're a fine Christian.

Christ died for YOU?

What a fucking waste.

-Charles