STFU

As I walked by the Union towards my class at Welch, I saw a bunch of students crowding around a guy. The first thing I noticed were the Atheist Longhorns holding signs that said "hellfire: sounds uncomfortable" and "Athiests: we're quieter". In the center was the guy, sitting on a stool, Bible next to the stool. I put my headphones down for a second.

The first thing I heard the guy talk about was that he hated Islam. Then he quoted a bunch of scripture to "support" his opinions. It was as if the word "arbitrary" never entered his vocabulary. He said that he loved people, but he hated ideas. He said he hated atheism and islam. I just wanted to tell him to

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

People would ask him questions, and he would give some almost-reasonable replies. One of them being "how can i enjoy heaven if my best friends are in hell," to which he replied using the story of his wedding, in which his father was absentee. He said I could choose to think about my dad, but all I thought of was my bride.
Look. I rap, i make use of similes and metaphors probably more frequently than most of the people my age. I appreciate that sort of thing. But here you are, mr. reverend, lording over the populace a concept of the afterlife and the only way you can communicate this concept is through a simile. You have no proof, but you incubate fear. And it is at that point, i feel that you are unqualified to hold a discourse with the rest of the unbelieving world. You speak of hate as if your exercising of it is somehow righteous and proper. You don't consider how fucked up the world is because someone hated after "God" told them to.

Then he tried to explain that if you truly loved your friend, you would want them to be saved. he said in 7th grade he told his friend to not smoke pot because he loved him. This is exactly my problem with Christianity. I have found, from experience and my own hypocrisy, that Christians love to talk about what other people should not do when they have no genuine understanding of what they are telling people to abstain or from. I don't need a meth addict to tell me not to try meth. But weed? cmon now. Then again, anyone lumping weed into the same category of drugs as meth is also stupid.

After he started his story, some people yelled out "WHATS WRONG WITH WEED?" because potheads are excellent at alliteration.


I'm just tired of Christians who are loud and pride themselves on the institutionalized hatred they were taught to embrace. At the end of the day, what have you remedied? What has changed?

Maybe i'm just hating extra hard because I'm having a tough week, but I always get a little pissed when school is used as a forum to insult that which, intellectually speaking, cant fucking be proved wrong or right.