Don't pray for us.

Sometimes I think about my more liberal super opinionated friends (almost militantly liberal)  I think about the ones that are really religious.  One is a pastor at a church. The other is a Mennonite that is very active in the church.  The pastor has actually come out and said that he hates a group of people.

I think it is okay to hate Trump and Trump supporters until you start advocating violence then I think it is okay to own guns.  But if you are clergy you've turned in your "hate card"  Compassion "trumps" all!  Pun intended.  Sorry. Thems the rules.  Yes, I know there are lots of things I don't like. Like having to work for a living.  I would like money to just be given to me.

I would like religion not to exist.  It has killed so many people.  While I am spiritual, religion is a social construct created by humans and as such is susceptible to corruption and is usually corrupt.

I also have conservative friends that are militantly so.  Some of those are very religious.  Likewise, some of them are among my most hateful friends.  Difference between them and the liberals is that they know they are hateful but they really don't give a fuck.  They believe there hatred is ordained on high.  The liberals don't even see that they hate.  Even when they come right out and say they hated these people because. . . .  as the pastor has.  He wrote it on face book.

I still like him and respect him.  I would actually like to talk to him about it but I never will.  This is where:

Don't pray for us

We don't need no modern Jesus

To roll with us

The only rule we need is never

Giving up

The only faith we have is faith in us.

comes in.

So I am thinking if I told these two people my views on religion they would unfriend me.  I really don't want to be unfriended and really they don't need to know my views on religion.  Serves no purpose but to increase separation among people. We have enough of that in the world.

But, what I would like to tell them is this:

 "Your God, Your Jesus hates people that are racist that do and say racist things.  Your God, your Jesus hates guns and hates wars.  Your God, your Jesus condemns those who are racists who are bigots who are war mongers who own guns who. . . . the list is infinite."  And then I would like to point out to them that, "Your God, your Jesus stood by and watched as my wife died an incredibly tortured death over a period of three fucking years.  She was tortured in a way that would make the Stalin and Hitler jealous. And you say, "Well God works in mysterious ways"  and "We don't know God's plan."  somehow making it alright that my dear wife suffered the greatest amount of pain I have seen in my life which by the way includes the shit that has been dreamt up by the delicate geniuses in hollywood.  While at the same time you say God punishes those who. . . ."

And then I would add:

"Unfortunately you are just as much a part of the hatred as the Nazis, Stalin, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, etc.  Yes, the list goes on.  Once you through out the "H" word, your there.  Check your hypocrisy"

And when the wave approaches

Take our ashes to the ocean

Who cares if hell awaits

We're having drinks at heaven's gate.

So don't pray for us. . .