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Haters be hatin'.

On anything really.  Some have their reasons, most don't.  At least not any good ones.

I get on FB and I am constantly surprised by some of the stuff people post, how much acid can be contained in a single status update is astounding.  Don't get me wrong, I have been guilty of this as well from time to time.  I recently posted my wish to have someone die in a fire.  It was horrible.  I regret doing it.

I'm not talking about cussing in a post, being crude, or perverted.  Posts like that seem normal to me.  Everyone lets a "Fuck!" slip past their lips.  Everyone has nasty things on their mind several times an hour, that's not surprising in a post to me.  Belief.  Anti-belief.  That sticks out to me.

In the past few months I've noticed a lot of "religion" posts. Correction, anti-religion.  Whatever.  What has been bothering me lately is this trend where people take jabs at people that have faith.  In...in anything, really.  It's odd.  I don't see any of the people I am friends with on FB that are religious posting videos, articles, or rants that call people that don't believe in God stupid.  I sure see a lot of atheists do it lately though.  I don't get it.

Maybe some people are afraid.  I've heard that when people are afraid of something they lash out against it. I mean it makes sense to get mad when someone tells you you're fucked if you don't start living a certain way.  I think at one time I was like that.  I don't know what I am now, not that.  I once had a conversation with someone that attended a book burning.  Sounds crazy, right?  You think book burning you think Nazis.  You think of the good ol' propaganda days.  The situation was that this guy had been attending church for a little while.  He was getting into it.  One day, one of the new members of the church decided they wanted to do away with things they owned that they believed were not suitable for them anymore.  That they believed were only going to lead to temptation by the devil.  So what do you do with this stuff.  You don't donate it.  I mean if you really think it is bad you don't spread it to someone else.  You don't keep it.  So they decided to burn it.  The guy told me that this burning made him stop going to church.  That the look on the people's faces were too glad.  They were all smiling and it was creepy.  That seemed wrong to him, burning books happily.

I thought for a moment, and the image disturbed me a little as well.  It was creepy to me, in the way that a greasy haired man taking a big bite of some super rare bloody steak was creepy to me.  In that I mean, there wasn't anything wrong with it to me, just odd or unsettling for some reason.  Then I thought about it a bit more.  I said to him, "imagine you believed by burning a book you were helping a person keep their life on track.  They wanted you to burn this book, and you whole heartily believed that this material could only hurt.  Wouldn't you be happy to do so?"  I guess the best way to put it is if you had a friend that wanted to get off heroine and they had a shit ton of it in their house, wouldn't you be more than happy to burn it for them at their request?  You wouldn't think twice.  Unless you like heroine, then you might try to snag it.

Now imagine you whole heartily believed that your best friend, your husband or your wife, maybe your mother was going to be killed in the most painful way possible if they got in their car today.  Set on fire and burned to death.  You had no proof, you had nothing but a note to say that this would happen, yet you believed it with every fiber of your being.   What would you do to stop them from getting in that car?  Would you beg?  Would you yell?  Would you lock them up for the day?  What if someone was trying to get in the car and ignore you?  What  would you do to that person?  It's fucking crazy from one end, but completely understandable as well.  Let me tell you, if I believed for a second that my daughters were going to be tortured eternally unless I did <blank>, I would do it.  No matter what, I would.  It's fucked up, I know, but there it is.

I'm going nowhere and I apologize for that.  In the end I just think some people think it is easy to abandon belief, faith, in something that is ingrained in there life, that's part of them.  It's just as silly as when a person says another chooses to be gay and therefore can choose not to be.  If one is bullshit, so is the other.

It's the nature of people to be at ends with each other, if it's not religion it's money and power. It's sex.  It's all the things we don't see eye to eye on and it's easier to feel right about something, sure of something, if you can dismiss the other side of the table as being full of idiots.  Attack them, make them look weak while you look powerful.

It's painful to see, people casting stones without even seeing where they are going to land, no idea who they will hit.

I don't know.  It's upsetting.

Jason B
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