Religious nuts...
Oct. 26th, 2004 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI meant to post this on Sunday, but got busy. While working on my computer last Sunday, I was flipping through some news channels on TV, ended up catching part of a special on MSNBC or something about religion and politics and the wave of Evangelicals.
The message in it didn't surprise me too much, as most of them are religious nuts anyway, but what did disturb me was this one family that was profiled. They had this little red-headed daughter, cute as an angel, but the religious bile that spewed forth from this child was harrowing. I understand the idea of being saved, accepting Jesus as your savior, but this little girl was talking about how people of other faiths were automatically going to hell because they didn't believe as she does. Her parents were just as frightening. The mother was hoping for the end of the world soon, saying that she'd see it in her lifetime. The sheer intolerance that radiated from this family actually sent chills up my spine.
If only the saved are going to Heaven (which apparently are only the Southern Baptists), Hell is going to be a bit crowded with all the Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, Buddhists, etc. I guess I feel sorry for the little girl the most, to be so completely brainwashed and messed up so early in life. Growing up in a somewhat less involved Southern Baptist household, I know there is hope.
The message in it didn't surprise me too much, as most of them are religious nuts anyway, but what did disturb me was this one family that was profiled. They had this little red-headed daughter, cute as an angel, but the religious bile that spewed forth from this child was harrowing. I understand the idea of being saved, accepting Jesus as your savior, but this little girl was talking about how people of other faiths were automatically going to hell because they didn't believe as she does. Her parents were just as frightening. The mother was hoping for the end of the world soon, saying that she'd see it in her lifetime. The sheer intolerance that radiated from this family actually sent chills up my spine.
If only the saved are going to Heaven (which apparently are only the Southern Baptists), Hell is going to be a bit crowded with all the Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, Buddhists, etc. I guess I feel sorry for the little girl the most, to be so completely brainwashed and messed up so early in life. Growing up in a somewhat less involved Southern Baptist household, I know there is hope.
