Oh. Before I forget
Jun. 6th, 2003 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherSmallish rant on the arrogance of certain organized religious persons.
So as I mentioned, I drove up to Medina to take my car in. While doing so, I saw two churches that both claimed to be 'The chosen of God.'
Excuse me. To be proper, they claimed to be THE CHOSEN OF GOD!!
This /pisses/ me off.
They weren't even the same denomination. Both appeared to be little evangelical places, with one actually set back into the woods, and only signs on the road and a shaky looking dirt and gravel drive leading into the shadows and hints of a steeple indicating where it might actually be.
These people. These arrogant. Stupid. Fucking. People.
If you want to claim to be the chosen of God, as far as I can see, there's some pre-requisites that need to be carried out.
1: Every member of your congregation must be kicked out of homes and forced to travel to sufficiently far away that they have no clue what the fuck is around them or how to live as they had been.
2: After a period where said congregation reaches the point approaching a normal life again, they are to be made the subject of severe persecution by their new nation.
3: If at all possible, they should be forced into project housing and denied food before being put into hard labor.
4: 1 out of every 3 congregation members must be shot after 1-2 years of condition 3.
5: Constant attacks by neighbors. Particularly while congregation members are at home or in worship. Extra points if spectacular methods are used.
6: Get your arrogant asses in front of every Jew you can find, particularly if you want to do some kind of 'holy land' pilgrimage. Let them vigorously beat the shit out of you because you have the gall to claim that their history is a lie, and their persecutions were meaningless. (This particularly applies to those groups who not only claim to be 'Truely Christian', but attack Jews at any opportunity.)
7: Stop evangelizing and wait for God and/or his messengers to contact you. Artificially induced visions, glossolalia, or seizures do not count.
Okay, that might be a little over the top, but still. Seeing that kind of stuff never fails to get my goat.
So as I mentioned, I drove up to Medina to take my car in. While doing so, I saw two churches that both claimed to be 'The chosen of God.'
Excuse me. To be proper, they claimed to be THE CHOSEN OF GOD!!
This /pisses/ me off.
They weren't even the same denomination. Both appeared to be little evangelical places, with one actually set back into the woods, and only signs on the road and a shaky looking dirt and gravel drive leading into the shadows and hints of a steeple indicating where it might actually be.
These people. These arrogant. Stupid. Fucking. People.
If you want to claim to be the chosen of God, as far as I can see, there's some pre-requisites that need to be carried out.
1: Every member of your congregation must be kicked out of homes and forced to travel to sufficiently far away that they have no clue what the fuck is around them or how to live as they had been.
2: After a period where said congregation reaches the point approaching a normal life again, they are to be made the subject of severe persecution by their new nation.
3: If at all possible, they should be forced into project housing and denied food before being put into hard labor.
4: 1 out of every 3 congregation members must be shot after 1-2 years of condition 3.
5: Constant attacks by neighbors. Particularly while congregation members are at home or in worship. Extra points if spectacular methods are used.
6: Get your arrogant asses in front of every Jew you can find, particularly if you want to do some kind of 'holy land' pilgrimage. Let them vigorously beat the shit out of you because you have the gall to claim that their history is a lie, and their persecutions were meaningless. (This particularly applies to those groups who not only claim to be 'Truely Christian', but attack Jews at any opportunity.)
7: Stop evangelizing and wait for God and/or his messengers to contact you. Artificially induced visions, glossolalia, or seizures do not count.
Okay, that might be a little over the top, but still. Seeing that kind of stuff never fails to get my goat.
