Someone, please explain this one...
After recently leaving the Christian Church, I began to wonder if I had made the right decision. Was I truly making a proper move, both for myself and for my family? Was I being wise in this, or was I setting myself up for further frustration and pain? Was I being selfish? Or was I thinking beyond myself in making this move?
And then I read this news story, and realized, I had no other options left.
For those who have forgotten, permit me to remind you of the story in question: Matthew Shepherd was a young college student in Wyoming who was brutally murdered by a pair of low lifes. As the final insult in this sickening crime, Shepherd was crucified on a barbed wire fence.
And now, we have this sick son of a bitch who says, "God is Happy," that this young man is dead. In fact, not only is God happy, but this SOB wants to plant a memorial plaque making note that Shepherd is "in Hell." He wants to do this in a park where there's already a plaque listing the Ten Commandments, a plaque which will likely be removed in part because of the uproar that this idiot "Pastor" is creating with his self-important posturing and self-aggrandisement.
There's no other way to describe what's happening here: This is just plain evil.
Matthew Shepherd was doing what college students have always done: he went out looking for a little fun at the end of the week. He went out to have a beer, and if things worked out, maybe he'd get lucky. I did it when I was in community college, and I'll bet you did the same thing when you were in school. The fact that he was gay is meaningless here, save for the fact that it became an aggravating circumstance in Shepherd's murder.
Let's remember one thing about this: based upon their own confessions, the two bastards that killed Shepherd were going to kill someone that night. Shepherd just happened to be handy. That he was gay somehow made it all right for those two losers to take his life. (I suppose if the victim had been a young white girl from some small midwestern town, who'd been a churchgoer all her life, this miserable, imbecilic excuse for a human being would be falling all over himself to build a monument to a "good Christian child who'd become a martyr for Christ.") Shepherd was in the wrong place at the wrong time, something which could have happened to just about anyone.
Do not misunderstand me: Shepherd should NOT have been killed. He did not deserve what happened to him. He was an innocent victim who, by all accounts, was an exemplary human being. I would have been proud to know this man, and I'm sorry that I never will. That these two animals were out, preying on innocent people, is something I will not understand. I keep thinking that someone, somewhere, had the means to stop this filth from infesting our nation's streets. That they were able to do this, that anyone would have left in any person's mind that this sort of barbarism against an innocent man was acceptable, either in the eyes of man or God, is beyond me.
But, then, we have this sick SOB who's bound and determined to honor the day an innocent man was "Condemned to Hell."
I remember well when Pope John Paul II condemned this nation as having "A Culture of Death." Those were strong words, but they were ultimately the kindest words the pontiff could use. Consider those word in light of what is being done in Wyoming, in the name of God and Man, and realize that this is being done under the auspices of the First Amendment. In short, we're getting our noses rubbed in this filth, and told too bad if we don't like it. He has a Constitutional Right to further humiliate the Shepherd family, to further their grief, to deepen their misery.
Of course, this is being described for his congregants in the most innocuous of Christian terms. This is a stern mercy, he's no doubt saying to his congregation of brainless dolts, all nodding their heads as this "Pastor" quotes chapter and verse, citing how God Hates Fags. The Lord demands HOLINESS, something Matthew Shepherd lacked, but this "Pastor" has in abundance, (though I would have believed that Mercy would have been a major component of Holiness, and Mercy is something this degenerate lacks). Yes, we must declare the Wonders of the Lord, and His Mercy, and His Wrath. (Wonder if this filth ever thought about the "double edged sword" that's hanging over his head as he spews his venom into the Topeka, KS community.)
This man is displaying the most egregious form of spiritual degeneracy that I've ever seen. He is dumping his filth not on Matt Shepherd, but on the already much abused survivors. That he wants to place a monument which will inflict further pain on the Shepherd Family, and their friends, is inexcuseable. And, frankly, I don't think the First Amendment covers something this evil.
Frankly, if this is what the Church has descended to, I'd sooner spend eternity in the company of Matthew Shepherd and share the man's bondage, rather than endure the misery of "Heaven" in this "Pastor's" neutered neanderthal god. If this is what God has become, then we are far, far better off without one.
