I don’t know if you have heard or not, but some Bible Thumper Musician’s kid got ran over, by her own brother. Now before anyone freaks, I am not going to sit here and be nasty about it. I would never do that, losing a child is horrible thing and anyone that would make light of it, is a jerk. So, this is not what this is.
What this piece is about is to ask a question, and to make somewhat of a point. How is it, when some famous person’s kid dies, especially some Right Wing, Bible thumper’s kid. The whole world fawns over it. But when someone else dies, no one cares?
Like who?
Well, let me explain.
What about the hundreds of the thousands of Children who have been sexually molested at the hands of Pedophile Priests in the Roman Catholic Church?
What about the little girls who were sexually molested at the hands of Baptist Pastor Bob Gray in Florida?
What about the woman, who’s 5 year old Son, who was gang raped at the hands of 8, 16 year old boys at the First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana, and of whom the case was covered up by the Church?
What about the 18 year old young man, who attended First Baptist Church of Hammond, In. who told close friends that he had uncovered evidence of wrongdoing by the Pastor, at the time, Jack Hyles and a week later was found dead, shot execution style in his apartment? The murder was never solved, and the Church was suspected by people in the town, but it was never proven.
What about the young woman, who was an attendee of Midwestern Baptist College, in Pontiac, Michigan, who ended up having sex with a guy in the basement of the Dorm of the college, ended up getting pregnant, and the fine Christian young man, upon finding out about it, ended up leaving the college one night and never returned, leaving this young lady to raise a child by herself?
What about the many, many, victims of self proclaimed "prophet" and known sexual pedophile and founder of "The Family" David Berg? Including Ricky Rodriguez, who ended up killing someone and committing suicide. Of whom this organization to this very day, denies that anything ever happened at all and claims that Berg was targeted for his beliefs and that Ricky was influenced by outside forces and was on drugs at the time of the killing and suicide.
What about the many victims of Jim Jones? (and yes, that did include MANY children and Babies!)
What about the tens of millions of children that get a Religion rammed down their throats and get told, "You either accept this belief system or you’ll never be a part of this family!", not once thinking that the child should be allowed to think for him or herself.
I think you get my point by now.
While I think it is horrible that a 5 year old child was killed, I think people should ALSO grieve for all the OTHER children that have victimized at the hands of those who claim to follow after the "Christ".