Look, I love freedom of religion. I am personally a big fan of it, generally speaking.
But when a group wants hide behind religion so they can rub it in your face, planting their house of worship at a site of an American tragedy that their leaders celebrated...it’s too much.
That may be hard to take for some of the truly committed progressives here. But at least let me explain why I can no longer be so ‘tolerant’ of these people.
This isn’t some ordinary harmless religion, deserving of our protection. We’re talking about a murderous, vengeful, hateful group. One of their leaders rejoiced after that tragedy that the 'judgment of America has begun.' Another told his followers that it was a reminder from God to America about the wrongness of our actions in the Middle East.
And it’s not just some unhinged leaders spouting out at the mouth. The ordinary believers, the rank and file of this so-called religion, well it turns out even they have some pretty unflattering views about the rest of us. They may want to walk amongst us and live in our neighborhoods, but it comes down to: if you’re not one of them, you burn as an infidel.
Their ‘community’ organizations are nothing more than thinly veiled fronts for a complete takeover of America.
Don't even get me started on the way they treat their women!
And don’t just say that, hey, at its heart this is a peaceful religion if occasionally misinterpreted by its followers. I’ve read their book. It's full of stuff about cutting off hands and conquering and killing people. No thank you!
Now, it used to just be that I didn’t want them coming back to the site of the tragedy and forcing everyone to see them right there in the community as the population tried to recover, heal, and forget. But now I realize we were all hurt that day, and we have all been hurt by their continued existence since then. So following the lead of my fellow citizens, it’s not just at ‘ground zero’ so to speak, but all across our great land that we must put our (collective) foot down.
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No fundamentalist Christian churches in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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No new fundamentalist Christian churches anywhere in America!!
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(I mean, it’s their right to build them and all; I just hope they have the good sense not to).