How Sleazy Christian Con Artists Took Over the GOP

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10. I've never been able to respect much of "christianity".

Starting right from my birthright, shunned by the puritanical european bloodline, and called my branch of their family "the bad blood". We had to sit at a separate table to eat when my great grandparents were still alive, when visiting my grandparents. They really thought of us as unchristian, soulless creatures due to our "mixed", native blood, and more recently found out some of them in the midwest still think of us that way even in this more enlightened age. No kidding! My other grandma, who was half creek, told me to watch out for christians, reminded me always that they systematically enslaved, tortured and murdered many of my ancestors. Her view on the bible was that it may have been inspired by god, but written by the fallible hands of man.
As a youth, christian-bashing of me as a gay teen became inordinate bullying, justified by their faith. My parents made life unbearable for me, and a local minister banished me when I sought refuge. The only church that eventually fed and sheltered me was Glide Memorial. I even got to meet the master of "christian" hate himself, Fred Phelps, in a ruse plotted to land me in front of him for a hellfire damnation of my soul. I'd never met anyone so repulsive in all my 16 years. It was the beginning of the end of any sort of "normal" youth for me. After my father beat me and attempted to set up a death trap for his "fag" son, I ran away from home.
I still see christians as self-righteous, egocentrical bigots, for the most part. Very few exceptions. I have so much more respect for native american spirtual beliefs, those who didn't get infiltrated by so called "christian" values. Christianity creates the ultimate "consumer", those who slash and burn the land's resources, pollute and so many return nothing at all to the land that sustains them. All justified by some god-given right to those resources over and above "those heathens" over there. They think god put that gun in their hands to murder, mass relocate, enslave and steal the fertile, water accessible lands. Some still even adopt the moniker "inquisitor", convinced of their afterlife placement plan in some golden heaven. They will never know why they have so many karmic lives to lead through the past, present and future. They are naive to the curse of the spirals that actually renders their lives meaningless spins of futility, yet convinced of their spiritual superiority. My blood, and my "schooling of hard knocks" has rendered me able to see so many ironies behind the "american splendor" facade.