Reply #126: Feeling Hate Toward the Hateful is Human

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To deny the strong feelings we have against those who have wronged us is just as hypocritical as any number of acts Bush has perpetrated during the last seven years.

I would wager that no one who comes to these forums are saints, whose first thought upon hearing about the death of anyone who has caused such hurt in the world is "Oh that poor man. I hope his family will be okay." If one is honest, one will admit to that first blush of satisfaction, no matter how fleeting. Some of us either feel it more warmly or are less ashamed to admit it. Perhaps the many here who complain the loudest about the grave-dancing posts are merely disturbed as to how close to their own innermost thoughts such comments are (much like how all those Conservative nutjobs hate gays so much because they are reminders of how they secretly want to gobble on some knobs themselves).

Honestly, my first thought when Falwell went was "Thank God. It's over with THAT one," an acknowledgment that his narrow-minded, bigoted, racist, homophobic movement lost a powerful, possibly irreplaceable component. Sure his followers are still a force with which to be reckoned, but without him as their spiritual "guide", they were made that much weaker. I am not advocating violence against those kinds of people, but I realize how much easier it will be for many, many more of us now that they are gone.

Please understand that, as an Atheist, I do not believe in "eternal judgment". THIS life is the ONLY chance we have to make criminals like Bush, Cheney and the rest of their regime pay for their crimes. Sometimes, the only justice we will ever see is when they die, and that is bitter, hollow justice indeed.