When I was a tow-headed boy in a Deep South cotton-mill village, oh so very long ago in a Jim Crow city, I could not and I did not buy into the prevailing state-sanctioned hate. Believe me, my open feelings did not make me a popular lad, and on the day I turned 17, in 1953, I got the hell outta there. But to the point: I am a lifelong nonbeliever in gods and all that, yes, but the teachings of Jesus, though borrowed from long-ago religions, are of deep interest to me. I'm thinking, Jesus, yes, but the genocidal god of a murdering tribe of Bronze Age desert nomads, no. Am I, then, a traitor to by brother and sister nonbelievers everywhere?
2007-06-05
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