I don't want to live in an Atheist country.

[Lyric]

In fact, I don't want to live in a country that has ANY official national position on religion. I want to live in a "It's none of your damned business what my religion or non-religion is" country. I want to live in a country where everybody can believe, speak, practice, and enjoy their own religious ideas, and nobody gets to impose ANYTHING religious in nature on ANYONE else--no matter how much of a majority they have.

For all that the right-wingers claim to be "true patriots", these people have ZERO respect for the basic values that our Founding Fathers stood for. They seem to hate everything that makes America, well, AMERICA. Freedom of religion? HATE IT. Freedom of speech? HATE IT. Personal privacy about what consenting adults do with their own bodies? HATE IT. Freedom from being spied upon and/or searched by the government without any establishment of probable cause? HATE IT.

Seriously. I sometimes think that these people hate authoritarian nations so much because they're secretly jealous of them. THEY want all those insane powers to spy on, restrict, and punish people for anything they want to, and it drives them CRAZY that they can't. They seem to want America to be a Jesusified version of the Taliban. They're totally cool with the TACTICS of "Radical Islamists"...just not the underlying religious justification. Replace Islamist with Christianist, and they're ready to throw money and votes at the idea.

I sometimes wonder how ANYBODY can be THAT willfully blind--and so very, very unpatriotic. I just don't get it.

Who do right-wingers hate America? The answer: They hate us for our freedoms. Talk about the ultimate projection.