Sometimes, I like to make use of Blogger's "NEXT BLOG" button, to look at some random blogs. If you try this, you soon discover that almost every second U.S. blogger, apart from the spam blogs, is a full-on Christian. When they're not thanking or praising God they're reporting church business. Not once but in every flaming post.
I'm a freelance Taoist myself, but I don't feel the need to go on about it in every post. Or in any post.
What is it about Christianity that generates so many fundamentalists (or God-botherers as they're called here)? I mean, you wouldn't catch a buddhist blogger going on about meditation in every post. Okay, there is one, but at least he posts lots of interesting stuff as well.
I'm a live-and-let-live kind of guy, so I wouldn't have mentioned this at all, but the last straw was when my recent post was targetted by a godly commenter.
This wasn't spam (I have word verification switched on), this was a human who takes the trouble to type in the word verification and then deposit reams of godspeak, homophobia and death threats, under the heading "GOOD NEWS".
For example, according to this commenter, heathens who are
"whisperers, .. haters of God, ... boasters, ... disobedient to parents .... are deserving of death."
Apparently it's pure luck that I was so obedient to my parents, or I'd be dead by now.
Of course, you know what could happen next - unless I see the error of my ways and start hailing God in my own blog, this guy gets all his mates to click on the Flag button at the top of my blog, complaining to Blogger that they're offended about my content. The next thing you know, Blogger will cancel my account. God moves in mysterious ways.
In fact, it's started already, a vocal minority have taken exception to my latest still life art work - now I know how misunderstood Van Gogh felt. Just when my art was attracting a record comment count, and I was planning a special ground-breaking new photo for this week, Blogger have frozen my photo account. I have asked them to unlock it.Anyway, back to the fundamentalist comments. It's important not to get sucked into discussion with fundamentalists as it only encourages them. But let me say unto God-botherers: consider keeping the good news to thyself.
I have received an appeal for more humour in my posts. Here's the best religious joke I could find. You can leave your laugh rating in a comment.
Q: What was God doing before he created the universe?
A: Preparing hell for heathens who ask smartarse questions.
