"Scott Vernon" wrote
Are you a vampire?

No, vampires are a Christian myth IIRC.

You seem deathly afraid of Christians.

As all should be of all religious zealots for they believe anything they do
is justified. That's why there is war in the Middle East and Ireland. Let
me share one example.

My brother, a minister, and his family visited us when my daughter was a
happy bubbling fearless child of 8 years. He knew that I knew enough factual
biblical history to blow his mythology away so he asked me not to deprogram
his four kids and in return promised not to expose my daughter to his own
frightening beliefs. A few weeks after they left the school called me in for
a conference with my daughter's teacher, a counselor and a shrink. They
informed me that she had been molested. The proof? She had always been one
of the brightest kids, a leader ever eager to lead the rest in some active
game. Now overnight she had become a morose loner unwilling to go out for
recesses. Did I know why? No, I didn't. She had never been left alone with
anyone, even my brother or one of his family and a physical exam showed no
evidence of sexual assault. When questioned she cried and claimed she just
wanted to be left alone so the 'why' stayed unanswered til a relative died
and we were discussing various religions. She became agitated and finally
burst into tears "Oh daddy! I've been so frightened ever since uncle Fagan
made me a child of god!" It seems that, despite promises, the whole family
had badgered he until on the last night when her mother and I had gone to
the store, they conducted a hideous ceremony. The stripped her and dunked
her into a cold tub of water this she almost drown while they sang and
prayed! Then they put her in a chair, put their hands on her naked body, and
whaled and prayed some more. Finally they told her she was a child of god
and that all the evil sins she had participated in were washed away. But,
they admonished, if she sinned again the devil would come, carry her off on
his fork and burn her in hell forever. I did what I could but she was never
the sweet carefree child they had frightened out of her wits.

That was years ago and now she has teens of her own.

I had always tried to be tolerant of other peoples fantasies because many
draw comfort from them. Now I try to debunk their efforts to use the law to
force their worst idiocies on us all ... as they have and will again if we
let them. And no lie or deception is beneath them, as witness my own
brother. Can you imagine what it was like to be 22 years old when birth
control was illegal?