It's a hard time being an atheist politician...
March 6, 2015 at 6:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 6:06 pm by Zenith.)
It seems it's a hard time for one who is an atheist politician if he's fighting for the rights of man and for the rights of the non-believers.
This is a facebook post I came across today, of an ordinary guy:
"Today, while walking throughout the city, my eyes were watering. I've taken down my glasses and I continued to intuitively step on the sidewalk of the University, in a blurry world, with fantomatic citizens.
I've been sweared twice until I reached the trolleybus, by people who confounded me with Remus Cernea. The first I ignored, I wasn't even curios to see how he looks like, and traversed forward. Old, according to the voice and according to how I could distinguish with my myopia, he was shouting to me from behind, "Remus Cernea, you faggot, you'll burn in hell!" plus a few threats from which I managed to distinguish something with "We're gonna castrate you!"
The second one, a corpulent lady somewhere older than 50, started directly with "You pedophile!". I took my glasses from the pocket where I was hiding them, I put them on and I asked her if she knew me from somewhere. She hesitated a bit, then, shocked, she realized she's confounded me. Anyway, her anger was too strong her remain steady. She told me to cut my hair, because I look like "the Atheist Cernea". "Where do you know Cernea from?" I asked. "I've seen him last evening at Reality TV, damn him and all of his kind of unbelievers!" she answered wheezing - she was holding a heavy bag.
Sad, too tired for an anger or revolt, I said "Good bye!" and I resumed my walking. She added harshly, "And cut your hair. It's written in the Bible, the man must not look like the woman!"
I start to wonder what essential differences would be between the Islamic State and the Orthodox State if we loose our battle for the freedom of conscience.
"
I would add that this such an attitude is not everywhere in Romania. Mostly, east side and south. In the north west, where I live, I can criticize Christianity in public and laugh of it, even talk about satanism without anybody around saying anything to me, at most, but very rarely, frowning or looking strangely at me. But nothing more. Unfortunately, the region of Romania I consider more 'bright minded' take at most 1 / 3 of the whole country.
This is a facebook post I came across today, of an ordinary guy:
"Today, while walking throughout the city, my eyes were watering. I've taken down my glasses and I continued to intuitively step on the sidewalk of the University, in a blurry world, with fantomatic citizens.
I've been sweared twice until I reached the trolleybus, by people who confounded me with Remus Cernea. The first I ignored, I wasn't even curios to see how he looks like, and traversed forward. Old, according to the voice and according to how I could distinguish with my myopia, he was shouting to me from behind, "Remus Cernea, you faggot, you'll burn in hell!" plus a few threats from which I managed to distinguish something with "We're gonna castrate you!"
The second one, a corpulent lady somewhere older than 50, started directly with "You pedophile!". I took my glasses from the pocket where I was hiding them, I put them on and I asked her if she knew me from somewhere. She hesitated a bit, then, shocked, she realized she's confounded me. Anyway, her anger was too strong her remain steady. She told me to cut my hair, because I look like "the Atheist Cernea". "Where do you know Cernea from?" I asked. "I've seen him last evening at Reality TV, damn him and all of his kind of unbelievers!" she answered wheezing - she was holding a heavy bag.
Sad, too tired for an anger or revolt, I said "Good bye!" and I resumed my walking. She added harshly, "And cut your hair. It's written in the Bible, the man must not look like the woman!"
I start to wonder what essential differences would be between the Islamic State and the Orthodox State if we loose our battle for the freedom of conscience.
"
I would add that this such an attitude is not everywhere in Romania. Mostly, east side and south. In the north west, where I live, I can criticize Christianity in public and laugh of it, even talk about satanism without anybody around saying anything to me, at most, but very rarely, frowning or looking strangely at me. But nothing more. Unfortunately, the region of Romania I consider more 'bright minded' take at most 1 / 3 of the whole country.
