I just came across a frightening reminder of the violence with which right wing religious zealots are willing to enforce their beliefs on everyone else.
Arguing in favor of efforts to stop the publication of a book that right wing Christians do not like, Lisa Gossett dreamed of a future in which all people are violently forced to submit to Christianity: “There will come a time when EVERY knee will bow and EVERY one confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord. Some choose to do it now. Some will HAVE to do it later and your reward for denying Christ will come to you.”
I’m going to be forced to bend my knee and accept the rule of Christianity over me, and be punished for not doing it sooner?
That’s just not nice. It’s a kind of desperate bullying, designed to get people to obey out of fear. We’ve had enough of that in America, in religion and in politics.
(Source: Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2007)
