I know you have been taught all your life by your teachers and holy men that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong. However, believing you are right is not the same thing as being right.

I can see how in the early days of trying to prove how right you are, your frustration and anger at not being listened to led you to act out in some crazy ways. Hijacking airplanes or blowing up abortion clinics, protesting at soldier’s funerals or screaming that gay people are going to hell, it certainly did get you noticed. Again I feel the need to point out that being noticed is not the same thing as being listened to.

Yes, people are now aware of your point of view. Some of them may even agree with you, or at least feel that you have some valid concerns.

So perhaps now is the time to try taking your viewpoint in a new direction. When you put a bomb in a building or shoot a school girl in the head because she thinks girls should be able to get an education, you are just not getting the whole idea of a public relations campaign. If you want to get your message across might I suggest wristbands or perhaps ribbons of a certain color. Maybe some billboards. Or better yet, try a commercial with puppies. And make sure it is narrated by Morgan Freeman. People love that guy.

My only other suggestion is that if your god is telling you to blow people up or shoot school girls, maybe you are not listening to him closely enough. Which is ironic when you think about it, because your major complaint is that no one is listening to you closely enough. Just something to think about.

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Another old post… because I don’t know whether to laugh or cry… and I want to try the laughing thing first…