. “We call out the covid-19 vaccine out right now. Keep that demonic spirit out of you right now in the name of Jesus!”
Exorcised of a vaccine that the body removes within a week... If i were there.... "Are you feeling the Spirit?"
"No, the stupid is giving me a migraine."
I can't even imagine what goes through the minds of these brainwashed idiots.
Nothing.
I think i was eight when a guy at a Mormon function stated that there was a black guy, a Mormon, who was so devout that one morning he woke up and God had made him white.
I thought it was a joke. I could even imagine the skit if Flip Wilson woke up white one morning. Or Richard Pryor. That wouldn't've been on TV, though.
But the people around us nodded their heads. This was the sort of miracle that confirmed their life choices, their place in the world.
I didnt have the vocabulary to express my new understanding that, "these fuckers don't examine ANYTHING critically, if it's from an authority figure within the hierarchy." I just thought, that guy up front can get away with ANYTHING.
I was forced to attend and believe the nonsense that evangelicals believe when I was growing up. But, compared to the current white evangelicals, my childhood religion doesn't seem half as nutty. On second thought, it was pretty nutty, just not as dangerous, since the people in my church supported the SCS and kept their dumb beliefs to themselves for the most part.
We were told to "witness" to our Catholic friends. I vaguely remember arguing in grammar school with my close Catholic friends about religion, each of us believing that the other one was wrong and headed for hell.
Even my parents thought that a movie about the Rapture was a bit nutty. It showed actors, all of them were white of course, dressed in white robes, being lifted into the sky, heading for heaven. By the time I was 18, I realized how crazy all of these nutty beliefs were, and to this day, I can't understand how my otherwise rational mom, fell for it.
If she was still in her right mind, I think she would be appalled to see what white evangelicals were up to these days. She vented to me about how her church friends were always telling her not to vote for the Democrats. I'm happy to say that she never fell for that, but I always found it interesting that she shared so many of these things with her atheist daughter, knowing full well that I didn't believe in god.