Thank you for making me feel like an idiot. I know none of you actually read it but 4 years ago, when I was still a fresh faced young Christian blogger full of hope and optimism, I wrote you guys a letter. The elections were drawing near and I had noticed that there were a lot of (conservative Christian) people in the US that were very worried about what it would mean if Obama won. So because I was under the impression that you guys were just operating under some bad assumptions, I opened my heart and shared a bit of my own story on how things went when my own country - South Africa - suddenly went from an almost exclusively Christian Conservative country to a Liberal, Secular state almost overnight. We had all the same worries back then (well some of us did) and things ended up much better (or at least not as terrible) as was initially feared. I thought that would be helpful because, naive simpleton that I was, I thought you guys were legitimately worried. Clearly I was wrong. You were just being assholes.
I'm sorry, does my language offend you? Tough! Your entire attitude offends me! You didn't care about the truth at all. I mistakenly thought you guys cared about facts when all you cared about was fearmongering. If that doesn't make you an asshole, what does?
Go ahead, read what I wrote to you in October 2008. While you're there, check out the letters by Focus on the Family and Janet Folger (reposted right here in this line for your convenience!) that prompted me to write my letter in the first place. Who did a better job of predicting the future? Be honest, if you still remember how. It was me! The stuff they scared you with absolutely did not come to pass* while my advice was pretty spot on if I do say so myself. The fact that I was right just makes this sting even more. I should have seen through you even back then.
I see clearly now how this was never about being accurate or truthful to you people. If it was you would have admitted you overreacted and changed your tune. But you didn't. Like the Harold Campings and Alex Jones' of the world your predictions failed but you just went ahead and made them again as if you haven't been so very wrong every time before. That is not the actions of a moral person, it's the actions of a fearmongering asshole desperately grasping for control over a small scared group of people (and their wallets). I should have known! I saw enough of the of the crap you're shilling during the last gasp of Apartheid. Congratulations, you fooled me!
I hope you feel great about yourselves. See you and I and your friends over at the news networks know that you're just telling scary campfire stories. Sure, you all put on serious faces but you know it's not really true. But not everyone does. Every now and again, some mentally unstable person takes you seriously and then does the only thing that anyone who ACTUALLY believes you can logically do - they kill people:
"Albert Peterson shot dead his wife and two sons hours after going to church because he dreaded the thought of Obama winning the election, a family friend has revealed.
A confidante of the family for the past 25 years has spoken to MailOnline about the strength and grace of the Peterson family, as well as the torment that plagued Albert which drove him to shoot dead his wife Kathleen and his two sons Christopher and Mathew at their suburban home [near] DC on Sunday.
A history of mental illness, the loss of a dear uncle, and a growing fear of Obama winning a second term in the White House took its toll on the mind of Mr Peterson, a wealthy defense contractor, the friend said."
Don't you dare stand there shaking your heads in sympathy you whitewashed graves! You should thank your God that more people don't take you seriously. I mean if someone truly believed that abortion was mass murder on a far greater scale than anything Hitler ever did, why wouldn't they shoot up a clinic? What kind of person who actually believes babies are being murdered could do any less? And how can actually believing your bullshit about death panels killing old people and Christians being rounded up into camps to be exterminated not seriously consider shooting someone? No, really, answer me that you fucking vipers!
But that's not going to change a damn thing, is it? You're still going to do your best to frighten the shit out of your gullible flock and they are going to listen to you and donate to you and vote the way you tell them to and when - not if - when you're proven wrong again, you will nevertheless do exactly the same thing again when the next election. So you know what, I don't see the point in even trying to talk sense into you leaders.
Instead, I'm putting this angry letter online in the rather naive hope that maybe one of your followers will read it and have second thoughts. Conservative Christian, you are being lied to by your leaders. I'm not saying Obama is a saint and you should vote for him. Hell there are some great reasons to not support him but you won't hear any of those from your leaders. Instead they're going to sell you fantasies about coming persecutions and a 1000 years of darkness. Don't buy into that! And for the love of all that is good, don't pass on their lies to your friends and family! I swear, I am not telling you who to vote for. I'm just asking you for one simple thing. Don't be an asshole. Simple as that. Hell you probably already adhere to that rule when you're in a parking lot or standing in line at the store or interacting with your neighbours. It's just basic human decency. That's all I'm asking for.
Don't be an asshole about the elections. Don't lie about the future. Don't make up stories. Don't repeat predictions that are as false now as there were the first 100 times someone made them. Don't act like you believe them. No! Debunk them instead!! Keep calm and go with your conscience, not your basest fears. When you find yourself tempted just remember DBAA - Don't Be An Asshole. Then go forth and don't be one. You'll be a happier person for it and you will never have to worry that maybe you were complicit in the deaths of anyone.
Regards,
Eugene
*PS
If you want to see these "predictions" thoroughly demolished, check out Libby Anne's blog. She does a great job going through these false prophecies bit by bit right here. Don't trust them and their suits and smiling pious faces. They lied before and they are lying now. They are not the "men of God" they are pretending to be.
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