We note today two important anniversaries in our public life: The Loving decision, and the appalling massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Loving struck-down laws forbidding interracial marriage, and laid the foundation of 2015’s Obergefell decision which made same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States.
The Pulse nightclub massacre was the gratuitous slaughter of 49-patrons at a gay nightclub.
“Christianity is a revolt of all creatures that creep on the ground against everything that is lofty: the gospel of the “lowly” lowers …”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you see a pattern here? You should. The great victories for civil liberties, the overdue realizations of America’s promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, overturned laws grounded in the religions of the Bronze Age. And the most grievous offenses against civil liberties arose from the religions of the Bronze Age.
I am saying exactly what I seem to be saying: The Abrahamic faiths are not merely untrue, but contrary to American ideals and a bottomless well of misery. It is time to be done with them, time to stop granting undeserved deference to Holy Men, time to leave behind their inexhaustible malice for the … other, time to openly and frankly refuse to be guided by decadent ideals.