Why I threw away my halo and replaced it with horns (Part One)

So, today I was reading that The Satanic Temple won their years long case for Religious Pluralism.  

My Congratulations to Lucien Greaves and TST, from a Theistic to an Atheistic.

But Now, the man who was leading the charge against them, former Arkansas State Senator as well as Founder & Chairman of the so-called National Association of Christian Lawmakers and MAGA Fundamentalist preacher Jason Rapert, is throwing a shit fit over the verdict handed down to him by a federal judge, saying that the Ten Commandments monument he erected on the Arkansas State Capitol grounds must now be taken down because it violates the Separation of Church and State.

Rapert claims that, "An Obama-appointed judge is attempting to silence Christianity by striking  (Arkansas's Ten Commandments Monument Display Act) down", and he is appealing the ruling.

No Jason, nobody is trying to destroy Christianity, Christianity is destroying itself, thanks to you and others like you corrupting the message of "Faith, Hope, and Love" since the 1920s, and since the 1946 Mistranslation of The Bible, and with your extreme fanatical rhetoric aimed at everyone who doesn't believe in your hate disguised as Christian Love, that is what is destroying Christianity.

His National Association of Christian Lawmakers (Sounds very theocratic, and an Oxymoron) is enabling Christianity to Self-Destruct. a Lawmaker's job is to make law based on the Constitution and the laws that govern the United States of America, not The Bible, God, or Jesus. Yet, Rapert and others like him have used Christianity as a crutch over the years to justify all the hateful laws they hoped to implement, and now are getting away with, at the expense of who is targeted. That is not "Loving Thy Neighbor", that is bullying.

And by supporting Israel's genocidal government, whose Prime Minister is killing his own people, that just makes it worse for his Judeo-Christian base.

It's people like this that later made me feel ashamed to be associated with The Church & Christianity, and often I was the target for my beliefs, my sexual orientation, my liberal status, and the fact that I came from a divorced family. And during my time with the Presbyterian Church USA of Pikeville, KY (Yes kids, the same place Natasha Cornet and the sinister six came from), when they appointed a Pro-Life minister, there was news that the PCUSA General Assembly voted to exclude Adulterers from ministry. Okay, that I could understand. But when the next announcement came, that they had also voted to exclude anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community from ministry, that was when I felt like I was a goldfish that jumped out of it's bowl and couldn't survive. As I looked out into the congregation nodding their head and saying "Amen", I was horrified. But when I heard it and witnessed it from the same people who I sang with in the choir, I froze. Only a couple of women I knew well and could trust were there for me.

After that, and after the choral selection of the Sunday, I went and turned in my choir robe, then refused to return to the service, got my my truck, and drove off towards my apartment.  Once I got in, I sat down and looked to the ceiling with disbelief in my body... feeling like the situation in "Let Her Cry" by Hootie & The Blowfish.

 TO BE CONTINUED.