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Have you ever been: beaten, fired, evicted for not believing in Santa? Of course, you haven't. I've experienced ALL the above, for not believing in gods. Have you ever had someone tell you your loyalty to your country's principles, your commitment to informed democracy and your heart-felt support of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is un-American, even as your accuser tries to strip them from civil discourse? I do, every day. Have you ever been accused of aggression, hate, intolerance by someone who, under a Taliban-like banner of theocracy, uses exactly those same hate-mongering tactics to vilify you, for no reason except that you don't support totalitarianism? You're doing it to me, right now. The majority of the US citizenry doesn't have cerebral palsy, either. Does this mean people with CP should have no rights? I don't want to live in a superstitious, brutal Dark Ages. If I resist your hate speech, this is why. Last gasps of a dying mentality, overwhelmingly outdated by modern, scientific thought, rationality and unabashed curiosity about reality. Go live in North Korea; you'll be very happy there.
Have you ever been: beaten, fired, evicted for not believing in Santa? Of course, you haven't. I've experienced ALL the above, for not believing in gods. Have you ever had someone tell you your loyalty to your country's principles, your commitment to informed democracy and your heart-felt support of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is un-American, even as your accuser tries to strip them from civil discourse? I do, every day. Have you ever been accused of aggression, hate, intolerance by someone who, under a Taliban-like banner of theocracy, uses exactly those same hate-mongering tactics to vilify you, for no reason except that you don't support totalitarianism? You're doing it to me, right now. The majority of the US citizenry doesn't have cerebral palsy, either. Does this mean people with CP should have no rights? I don't want to live in a superstitious, brutal Dark Ages. If I resist your hate speech, this is why. Last gasps of a dying mentality, overwhelmingly outdated by modern, scientific thought, rationality and unabashed curiosity about reality. Go live in North Korea; you'll be very happy there.
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