I'm both a straight white man and one of the most persecuted minorities on Earth
It gives me an unusual perspective.
Anybody still reading me is someone who knows to ignore the xtian big lie. Hell, the puritans came to plymouth rock not to escape religious persecution but to persecute harsher than was allowable under English law. The brits had been fighting the protestant/catholic culture war long enough to expand upon a novel idea they’d had in 1215.* England had laws that applied to everyone regardless of who you were, and those laws prohibit things like the pillory. Being bent over at the waist like an assembly line worker wasn’t the punishment. You couldn’t see who was raping you, and everybody in town came out for a poke if you didn’t have a guard. Chuck pointed this one out to me. Now imagine what that did to families in the smallest of small town america. Every woman punished that way had to make up a story for the kid to explain the lack of father. Imagine what that did to the kid’s emotional development—only shim didn’t know hir origins. Everyone else in town did. Sounds like my life.
“Every republican accusation is a confession.” I’ve spent my life being scapegoated by all the projecting faith addicts. The right wing really does persecute people behind the scenes, but it’s the atheists being persecuted and not vice versa. In Dixie, I’m constitutionally barred from holding public office or collecting a government paycheck. I’m to be publicly tortured to death by the police upon discovery in about ten nations[13, actually], and the murder will be handled by unpunished civilian vigilante squads in about 40 more.
Ahhh, it’s just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.
*This is a good example of how bullshit that is pretty words can inspire subsequent humans to make the pretty words less bullshitty. See: the US Constitution.