Christian Atrocities

[Mister Agenda]

Honestly what GC is saying is right--that many places in the South are just giant religio-cultural gangs. When people bring other experiences to the South, a lot of people act more or less like a gang. In some places is downright scary.

As someone who's lived in the South for all my life, I've kept up running, martial arts, and studying the heck out of my textbooks so that one day I could get out. You know how freaky it is when you hear the WBC lady talk? There's quite a few here like that.

As someone from the inside of this way of life who defected, I can say it left lasting harm on me.

I'm in college now. But I still suffer from anxiety attacks. I'm paranoid about letting loose about my being atheist. I have to carefully and systematically delete any and all ties to atheism on my computer / phone, when I visit home. The "We" mentality of the South is nothing more than a gang, and it completely screwed me over.

Yet, Austin sprang up in the South. Columbia SC is a place where I have no more fear about being openly atheist than I would in the Midwest. The South can't escape changing demographics, it can only drag its feet.

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You're free to believe whatever you want to, that's not a right given to you from this country or your native American heritage, that right comes from God before there were native Americans.

There's more support for that assertion in the Qu'ran than the Bible. At least the Qu'ran says there shall be no compulsion in religion, though the idea seems to be honored in the breach pretty often.