Neanderpundit

To see the Jackson Five, vintage 77 or 78.

All damned day, “stop the love you save” and “ABC” and “I want you back”.

Make it stop please.

combined with a handful of almonds, make for a really impressive morning, I’ll tell you. The color and texture are to say the least unusual.

The less likely I am to be surprised by anything. Once in a while, though, because of a lifetime of experiences good or bad, a bunch of individual thought legos snap together in a way they never did before, and instead of a handful of caltrops, they merge and become a structure with meaning and sense.

A recent snide comment (Deleted summarily; if you want to discuss something here that’s fine but if you’re gonna be an ass you pixies get thrown out through the door or through the window) by a past commenter about the occasion of death made me think of something in a way I never thought before, and though it is a simple concept it took a morning’s woolgathering for it to assemble itself in my head.

I have never personally known a violent anti-theist who did not have something bad going on. I had been under the impression that they just had strong opinions on the subject, but as I drove to work this morning I reflected on the seven or eight vocal anti-theists I have known well (at least, more than casual acquaintence) there is a patricide, a child molester, an abuser of women, a harpy whose extramarital affairs are legendary, and people who have done far worse things. There was only one I knew who didn’t have one of those skeletons in her closet, and she recently passed; ater her passing I learned- quite accidentally- of her “skeleton”. Yikes.

I also know people who have done those things who are devout and faithful; it clearly isn’t the actions that cause the anti-theism.

It made me wonder: Is the anti-theism a wish, a dream that their actions, their immorality, their hatred will have no consequences? I pondered that a good deal this AM. The pieces fit together pretty well. I’mna have to spend some more time looking at this.

As someone who spends a lot of time looking at patterns, this is a behavioral pattern that does not surprise me, not a bit. But it does enlighten me. If your “belief” that there can be no redemption from your transgression is stronger than your faith can ever be, I can see how you’d want to destroy God with your words.