They keep poppin' up all over

I found another response I liked to which someone wrote regarding people and religion in America... Please read on [Thanks Devil's Adv.]:

If "most" people nowadays were offended that you're a Christian, that clod we have in the White House would be sippin bourbon and shootin fuckin gophers on his ranch. Your comment that "most people don't want to be told to pray" is truly telling. Of course people don't want to be told to pray. Having someone else's religion foisted upon you is highly fucking irritating. Now, I was raised Christian, and I'm cool with people who love Jesus. If cornered, I'd probably fold and say that I love Jesus, even though he's been dead for 2000 years and what I really love are the principals he stood for which, yes, I try to carry around in my head or my heart (I don't believe that there's actually a man in my left ventricle).

What I'm not cool with, however, is organized religions trying to tell the rest of the country/world how we should live our lives. What I'm not cool with is the clout that the religious right carries in this country. I fucking hate that we've gotten to the point where one or two douchewads can call the FCC complaining about something Howard Stern said, and consequently the company Stern works for gets fined. Who made up these retarded fucking rules? Give you a blessed trio of guesses.

It's becoming painfully obvious that one of the bedrock principals of this country (freedom from religious oppression) is now being reversed by those who want to shove their beliefs down the collective throats of the masses. Again, sorry for being such a dirty hippie, but WHY THE FUCK can't we all just leave each other the fuck alone? You're a dude, you love a dude, and you want to occasionally bang that dude? Christ, it's no skin off MY balls. The problem I have with a lot of Christians--among these are family members whom I love very much--is that so many of them take an old book that's been translated 157 times, and they want to follow it to the letter. Remember that telephone game we played in grade school? Remember how different the phrase was by the time it reached little Susie at the end of the circle? And that was just 30 repetitions...

Take a look in your Bible tonight and read the part where it refers to God's people as a "flock". Are you telling me that doesn't make you pause even a tiny bit? SHEEP? We're all SHEEP? Ummm, I don't know how many sheep you've met, but I've met one or two in my lifetime. Sweet animals, but dumber'n fuckin stumps. They're easily frightened, and that makes them easy to control. With the wooly animals, you get a dog to nip at their heels. With the human animals, you tell em about fire and brimstone and orange alerts. Same dif.

There are some who may say, "Oh Kid, you dolt, the whole "flock" thing is a metaphor, and to you I say, "Bravo! Now read the rest of the Bible with your newly opened eyes." [MY THOUGHTS to a T]