California is known for being a Democratic Blue state. But here where I am at, I am in one of the most unusual counties in Southern California where its Evangelical Conservative Bible Central. As a matter of fact I like to nickname my place as the Bible Belt of Southern California. As I've mentioned on my previous post "that some of us may have had bad experiences that drew us to Satanism and the Left Hand Path," this subject of growing up in the bible belt can fit the criteria for some of us. Having gone to an Evangelical Private School as a kid, I pretty much know the fanatical mindset of an Evangelical. They have this attitude that their religion is "the one true religion" or "one true God," and that all other religions that do not fit their viewpoints are regarded as false and evil. They have this Third Reich attitude on cleansing the world or the people themselves. One of the fanatical sides that I've experienced from being around Evangelicals is on not being considered "Christian enough," just because I never gravitated towards Christian rock. Being a young child I was indoctrinated in that environment, and no matter how much I truly believed in their faith I was not regarded to be as hardcore enough to be considered a "Christian."
I have no problem what one practice's or believes in, so long if its a personal and private thing. As a matter of fact I have a 36 year old friend/acquaintance who is Catholic and we get along quite well. We never bring up religion at each others faces. Religion for him is probably considered a very personal and private thing. To me you can say the same as well. The problem that I have is when one commercializes one's beliefs and assumes they can own a city/town by taking it over and having this mindset on dominating others/the world with their religion as "the one true way." For some of you who live in a place like that and who have had that kind of a bad traumatic experience, I wouldn't want to remain there. As a matter of fact I would want to be in a place as far away from that environment as best I can. That is where my advocacy on finding one's own homeland comes into the picture.
I believe in finding a secular homeland without the Evangelicals. Where religion is seen as something private and personal. Where it's considered rude to dictate one's faith in front of a persons face "that you need a spiritual foundation." Where you can freely walk on dirt, without seeing the writings of "Jesus Loves You," or "Jesus Loves Me." A homeland without seeing Crosses on every mountain close to the freeway, a homeland that fits one's own attitudes whether it is political or not. I'd rather live in a place with a bunch of extreme progressives than being in a place like that. For some who have the hostility and the hate as well as the opposite points of views in an Evangelical dominating conservative environment, wouldn't you want to move to your homeland where you no longer feel these strong animosities as you are feeling now? That is my question for some to think about.
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