tinhuviel: (Shriekback - Nemesis)

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This picture, which will take you to the Satanic Temple's website if you click it, may get some people's panties in a bunch, but I'm expecting the ones who take offense also support public land being used to provide citizens with religious messages, statues, displays, and so on, but only as long as the messages are xtian.  Because of the high probability that those who frown on my opinions here are the perpetrators, even if expressed passively, of the destruction of American society, and I really couldn't care less if I hurt their tender feelings.

What is so glorious about the Satanic Temple's method of exposing this blatant hypocrisy is that they present logical arguments that can't rationally be refuted without the objectors relinquishing their religious privilege or coming across as the lunatic fringe extremists that they really are. The Temple also provides proof of the double standard theocrats have long enjoyed and employed to their benefit, via public records, laws, amendments, and so on, presenting to the government at the center of whatever religious spat is currently heating up all of the documents that support their claims and requests to take part in true religious liberty. They do this in a methodical, rational, objective way, which sadly seems alien, given the insanity the xtians have inflicted on the US for decades. This ploy is just pure genius, because when the xtians come in direct conflict with the Satanists in any forum that is easily accessible by anyone, they invariably look like the fruit loops they really are, in contrast to the calm, collected, professional demeanor of the "bad guys."

In addition to all this, the Satanic Temple has been able to editorialise our current society, highlighting how truly fucked up America is, mainly because of efforts on the part of our American Taliban to erase the lines that separate Church and State. Also, from what I understand about their ideology and religious observances, they are furthering their own spiritual evolution on the path they have chosen by doing all of this. As I said on someone else's timeline a few hours ago, who better to play Devil's Advocate than an organised group of actual, practicing Devil's Advocates? What's even more hilarious is the fact that the theocrats are directly responsible for disseminating the Satanic Temple's message by making underhanded demands for so-called "religious freedom." When jackholes get their arses handed to them by people employing the very tactics said jackholes have been perfecting for decades, a can of Red Bull gets its wings.

...and I cackle with blissful abandon.

tinhuviel: (Cadmus Wrath)
Thanks to trying to write Cadmus whilst making a comment about love...

In discussing Christian love and charity, and how far the current Dominionist ideal has strayed from its claim to be Christian, I made the comment on Facebook: "If you love someone, whether it be personal or Christian love, you'll trust them enough to leave their decisions to walk off their own cliffs, if they so choose. You'll love them enough to not invade their personal space. You'll love them enough to show your love unconditionally, so they will be more apt to love you in return."

This is what went on in my head immediately thereafter.

Cadmus: What do you know of love? You who poured every abomination and derision into my person.

Me: I can love. I don't often, but can. So few these days really deserve love, though, even my poor expression of it.

Cadmus: And poor it is. You've truly have no conception of it, or anything for that matter.

Me: I loved enough to let you live.

Cadmus: You feared enough to give me life.

Me: Your mother loved you unconditionally. I do too.

Cadmus: My mother did not even know of my existence until centuries of my suffering in this realm, thanks to you, who are my true mother, truth be told. You should never have given birth to me. That you did, is testament to your perversion, your inclination to hate. And what of my fathers, my fathers three? One finds me a curiosity and something to be regarded at arms length at best; one knew the Abomination I was and shall always be; and one tortured me beyond the comprehension of any truly sentient creature. Your claim to love is an affront to all that defines me. The more you seek out love, the more I hate you for it.

Me: Love exists regardless. The real spark of who you are was founded on it. I realise that now.

Cadmus: You are a liar, and you are delusional. Which is worse? The liar knows the truth, whereas the deluded is doomed to walk a path of incomprehension. To be both is to be lost to a special kind of hopelessness.

Me: And I blame myself for instilling a level of hopelessness into your personality. The fact still remains that I love you, despite the harm you have caused me, despite the harm I have caused myself because of you.

Cadmus: I hope you suffer until hell swallows you for ever giving birth to me. When the Pit does welcome you in its bosom, know this: I shall be beside you, placing the shackles of your sin 'round your throat. Whose pet shall be whose then?

Me: You were never my pet. You have always, and shall always be my son.

Cadmus: You sound like that pathetic Elf, Kelat. Her weakness was her insistence to forgive and understand, despite all indications that she should instead flee.

Me: It was her inclination, because she loved.

Cadmus: My mother, she who loves despite the damage it causes her.

Me: Do you speak of Kelat or of me?

Cadmus: Both of you. May you choke on the seeds of your love. May its expression burst your hearts from its imperfection.

Me: Despite your hatred of me, my love remains a fact.

Cadmus: ...


This is what it is like in my head almost every day. That voice just won't shut up, so I'm forced to write it out, even when I'm blocked like a mofo. There are some days I feel like Smeagol/Gollum.

February 2019

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