All my life, I thought it was odd that my polling place happened to be a church. I always figured that would be the last place polls would be because of the "separation of church and state" thing, but I guess not. Then, last year, the year right before I would be able to vote, I finally asked my dad why our polling place was a church, and I found out that the church was actually no longer a church. Yes, as it turned out, the church closed down, and had been converted into a community center! I was surprised, as this had never happened before, as far as I was aware! Because of that, I felt a mild sense of satisfaction. I don't know, should it be regarded as a victory for atheism to have a Christian church converted into a secular community center, or is it just no big deal?
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
