That is very nice Kate. It's a very romantic notion. But the people I know who believe and feel this way are as far from romantic as they are from reason. They see the world in very stark terms of right and wrong. Since they define themselves as 'right' those who are different from them can only be wrong. They see that in absolute terms, there can be no deviation from that. "God wrote it, I believe it, that settles it" as the bumper sticker says is a notion that no mere human can ever debate - least of all by using either reason or romantic thoughts.
Few things in the history of our planet are as sinister as people who for some reason feel they are god's chosen vessel, that they have the truth (regardless of what that 'truth' is), and they they are called upon - and 'calling' is exactly the term they use - to enforce that truth of god upon the rest of us. Likewise, few things are as dangerous as those who would feel, as so perfectly stated by one who knows, that they are 'not of this earth.'
Thus, being not of this earth, the rewards, the punishments that society might deal out to them are naught. Their rewards and punishments - everlasting at that - are of god, not men. And, that is a very scary thought that people are beyond the society, beyond the law, beyond any punishment and reward that can be offered on earth. They are way past any sort of control.
Yes Kate, they will never make it out into the sunshine to play. I think what you don't understand is that they don't want to. They don't like the sun. They seek to cast us all into the total darkness that only superstition can offer. They live in a world of metaphysics, not real physics. What is unseen is more real than anything you see. What you know, pales in comparison to what they believe. They don't even see it as sunshine, they see it as eternal darkness. They see it as sin. An abomination to god himself (and have no doubt, to these people god is very, VERY, male.) And make no mistake, they use that abomination word and by they they mean: "
And be very afraid. They are losing and they know it. Having gained the pResident of the US, the Congress and the Courts, they still did not achieve what they wanted. Then next step will be far more millitant, count on it. Among other things, they are going to lose the three above powers. Its not going to make them more contrite, and you can take that to the bank.
A few years ago now, a young TG was brutally murdered here in the bay area. I went to the funeral to protect the family from a group of believers who wanted to tell the greving mother how many days her beloved child had been in hell. (This is true, I'm not making it up.) So on one side of the street were these believers, on the other were a group of us, all wearing butterfly/angel wings. Some of us had the translucent airy-fairy kind of wings, others had the red and white kind - because among the people who showed up to keep these people from the funeral were several members of the Hell's Angels. (politics makes strange bedfellows as the saying goes) And of course in the middle were the police. Had the cops not been there I'm sure there would have been a major league beat-down. And that's not just the Angels, good as they are at beatings, but there are plenty of us in the Bay Area that know that by the time you get to be 40 or 50 years old, and have been wearing skirts in public since we were in our teens you get real good at fighting, or you get dead. But, here is the point. I'm sure they would not have minded getting beat. I'm sure that if we beat them to the death they so justly deserved - if only for the violation of common decency if nothing else - they would have WELCOMED IT. We were 'sending them home.'
Fear the person who does not fear death. There is no reason that will work. No punishment you can offer to pull them in line.
And I don't think they wish they were that brave. I really think they wish you were dead and in hell. And if they can push that process, they will - and in plenty of cases, they have, at least the dead part. The power we represent to them is not the freedom of will or action, but the power of Satan.
That much I'm pretty sure of.
