Great story V. You should make a movie of it, bob could direct, he's
got nothing better to do.

Sounds like mental illness runs in your family.

S

"Vito" wrote in message
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"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?