Reply #48: For those of us who [View All]

[Jamastiene]

have contact on a daily basis with fundies, the anger is the only thing that protects us form them and gives us protection from their brand of "morality", which isn't really moral. If we are trying to protect our own morality, we HAVE to get angry with them.

And for those of you with no direct day to day contact with fundies, who may take this the wrong way, please hear this. There are those of us who simply try to ask them not to proselytize only to meet real violence. I had a fundy pick up a shovel and back me up against a brick building and try to kill me by pushing that shovel into my neck enough to cut off my breathing until someone stopped her back in the 80's simply because when she said Prince was the antichrist and a devil worshipper because he used backwards masking on the Purple Rain soundtrack, I tried to point out to her what he really said. Simple as that. I was going to tell her is was really a pro Christian message when you played it backwards. She tried to kill me for THAT. Next, I got raped simply because my boss found out I had said I was a lesbian and word got around. She took it upon herself to take me to a block building and goad a man into raping me chanting things like "All that lesbians needs is the right man and the love of God and she'll be straight".

I could care less about whether someone else thinks I should let go of the anger at this point. Until the day comes when I have saved up enough money and gotten enough of an education to get out of the Bible Belt, I will hold on to that anger and my paranoia. If I can get away from the overwhelming dominant majority of the people around me being fundies, the anger would subside. I know it. I don't just believe it. The anger comes from being fed up with that bullshit mentality and not being able to get away from it.