My Little Slice of Hell

To document the passing of another Halloween, it is only appropriate to talk about the ‘Hell House’ craze which was originally started by Jerry Fallwell and has now spread throughout the US. Thanks religious fanatics for another awesome scare tactic/guilt trip to send more people into religion-induced states of brain inactivity! The more crap like this starts to pop up around the US the less it becomes “fanaticism” and the more it becomes the “norm” which to me is scary as hell! Congratulations to these Christians for actually frightening an atheist with some of your contrived bullsh*t. Ok, it didn’t scare me into being religious and worrying about “being saved” but now I’m faking terrified about my actual life, the one I have now!

I recently watched Hell House a 2001 documentary about the making of a ‘Hell House’ by a church in Texas. If this wasn’t disturbing enough, you can now find hell houses like this one that not only completely warp minds into being non-questioning Christians, it also has a political motive behind it! This is faking outrageous! How often do I have to ask “what happened to separation of church and state”?!? The “Hell Hospital” which is referred to in the above article is not only completely fabricated bullsh*t it is also aggressively racist! Is this what we were meant to have when the founding fathers came up with freedom of speech and freedom of religion?? If so, then maybe I would like to decline that “freedom”! Just as Pericles elaborates in his article, the “freedom” to choose between one piece of sh*t and another piece of sh*t is not actually a freedom. The “freedom” to oppress someone else is also not a freedom. Just because you have the “freedom” to be an ignorant racist arsehole does not mean that is how you should act.

I don’t ever remember while growing up, sitting down and thinking someday I’d like to be an ignorant unreasonable fakhead that doesn’t listen to logical arguments or respect people. And because of the innate goodness of human kind, I am pretty sure that I was not the only kid that thought this way. So, who may I ask is planting these seeds to segregate and oppress others? You guessed it, after all it is my favorite answer, religion! Another possible answer is power hungry fakers striving for world domination that manipulate people through fear and drive people into servitude by leaving them penniless in a capitalistic society. Ah, it is the age old question, isn’t it? Who came first… the religious fanatical manipulative fak or the capitalist greedy power-hungry fak? What if they end up being the same person, does that mean he just faked himself?

The very idea that thousands of people every year attend one of these ‘hell houses’ scares the crap out of me. People are taking this stuff to heart and the documentary notes that out of the 75,000 people that attended Trinity churches hell house, 15,000 converted or recommitted to the church. This isn’t your average granny putting on her best shoes and doing her hair up for her weekly talks to her favorite stud Jesus. These are teenagers and adults that have been converted by watching gruesome acts of torture and death. If you convert because you want to believe in a rosy after life with cake and pie finishing off with storytime by Jesus, I have no problem. Nobody is killing or oppressing over happy thoughts of an after life (except maybe the 72 virgins thing, but well, I wouldn't mind seeing that portrayed in real life). The problem comes when you have the sadistic fakheads with ideas of a torturous after life recreating it right here, right now. Something needs to be done, we cannot let this “freedom” run rampant and continue to infect people’s minds with lies and anger. Religion will be the downfall of mankind unless we manage to fak the Earth up enough that it decides to pull another ice age on us. Of course, if you are religious, you have nothing to worry about because (a.) you will be taken during the rapture or (b.) global warming does not exist.