Reply #115: I'm not that confused by it....

[tirechewer]

I think a lot of people in this country are responding to the constant harassment and denigration by the Religious Right that says we all have to conform to their beliefs or we are lesser beings.

I'm beginning to see and hear more and more of those so called "Christians" whining now about how nobody wants to hear what they have to say and nobody likes them. I wonder why? They have tried to force feed us their religious beliefs, their concept of God while having elected a lying, dishonest manipulative government which seems determined to destroy everything this country used to be. I don't want to hear any more from them either. I am going to say what I want to say about them. If they take that as denigration, well then they need to toughen up. They set the rules for attack politics and attack religion and if they are going to have a problem living by them, they should have made a different contract with the rest of us.

I don't know what your religion is, or your concept of God, and frankly that's fine with me. People's definition of God is unique to them, and nobody's definition is entirely the answer or is better than anyone else's definition.

I take a lot of Zogby polls and they always ask about religion before they proceed with the rest of the poll. It is one thing they factor in with the rest of your answers, because the government and its hard core supporters have made such a big deal out of religion and "us against them". George Bush was once quoted as saying that no one who didn't share his particular evangelical brand of Christianity could be a true patriot.

Really? I'm a Quaker. I'm patriotic. I just don't support this particular government or the people who adore repression. This government is spying on our meetings. Not just the one that was publicized, but probably many others that haven't been. Would you like government spies at your worship sessions, or to have your church bugged? So you can excuse me if I'm a little ticked here. What happened to my citizenship, my right to believe in God as I choose and to support peace instead of Bush's futile meat grinding war in Iraq. Where is my right to due process, and to define God as I see fit?

The people in this thread are enjoying freedom of speech. As far as I'm concerned they should go for it while they still have it, because all those good folks on the religious right are doing their best to take it away from all of us.