Hovind's solitary considerations

but here is a list of Hovind's transgressions against governments at the federal, state and local level.

Istvan:You had requested that I write a paragraph about what my problem with christianity is. That is not so easy, because to do that, we would have to agree on what christianity is. Just here on this blog, there are diametrically opposed views of what christianity is. On one side, some of the women here contend that christianity is about loving your neighbor and spreading Christ’s love to others. On the flip side of that, campusminister and EndTimes and others contend that christianity is about hate and bigotry and judgment. These are completely opposite views of what christianity is. And that’s just here on this blog. There are thousands and thousands of different ideas about what christianity is. So which definition would you like me to write my paragraph on?If you want me to write a paragraph about my problems with Jersey Girl’s version of christianity, I will have nothing to write. I have no problem with it. It seems nice, and I’m glad that she’s found something that works for her and makes her feel good. I don’t happen to need that kind of affirmation, and I think she’s misinformed, but if it makes her feel better and doesn’t hurt anyone else then it’s a good thing.CampusMinister, on the other hand, is a dangerous man. He is a fundamentalist, and fundamentalism is an extremely dangerous thing. There are different kinds of fundamentalism: religious fundamentalism, political fundamentalism, etc . but they all share the same attribute. They divide everybody into two groups: 1) those who agree with me; and 2) those who are evil. There is no gray area. There is no provision for people who just disagree with them but are good people anyway; no, they are evil because they disagree. These types of discussions often spiral downward into an argument about who is worse: various oppressive atheist regimes or various oppressive religious regimes. You can find many examples throughout history of evil christian regimes, evil Muslim regimes, evil Buddhist regimes, evil atheist regimes, etc . What all of these oppressive regimes have in common, though, is fundamentalism. The Taliban are religious fundamentalists. Richard the Lionheart was a religious fundamentalist. Stalin was a political fundamentalist. The real enemy is not the religion or lack thereof, the real enemy is fundamentalism. It takes everyone who disagrees with you (religiously or politically) and labels them, not merely as people who disagree, but as “evil.” And it is pretty easy to convince people to go along with doing horrible things to evil people. It is pretty easy to convince people to fly planes into buildings once you have convinced them that everyone in those buildings is evil.I will give you an example from this blog of what I mean. EndTimes, in the previous thread, equated me with the Nazis (and the Russian KGB). Yes, that’s right, because I disagreed with him on a blog, I am in the same category as two of the most ruthless, evil regimes in the history of the world. You see what I mean? Two groups of people: those who agree with him and those who are evil. I disagree with him, therefore I am evil, just like the Nazis. He makes no distinction between me, who disagreed with him on a blog, and the Nazis, who killed millions of innocent people. Now ask yourself this: if I’m as bad as the Nazis, isn’t it OK to kill me, or take away all my rights, or treat me as less than a person? I can see how that would be a very easy step for him to take. He has deluded himself into believing that I am evil. When I was in college I used to listen to a couple of psychos who preached on our campus. I would not be at all surprised if our friend campusminister was one of them. One time I heard him preach that all homosexuals should be rounded up and put in prison. They should be given 30 days to “repent,” and if they refused to repent they should be executed. (He also preached about how he beat his wife- according to him it was OK because he always hit her with his bible to “knock the word into her.”) People like campusminister are trying to turn our government into the christian version of the Taliban. I have no doubt that, if people like campusminister were able to gain control, it would not be long after all the gays were executed that they would be coming after me, to give me 30 days to repent. Because I’m just as bad as the Nazis, remember? Granted, it is a very remote possibility. It is very hard to imagine something like that happening. But the Nazis did not get to where they ended up overnight. It took years and years of gradual indoctrination. If they had taken power in 1932 and immediately said “let’s round up the Jews and exterminate them!” the population would not have gone along with it. It started more subtly, more slowly. Certain rights were taken away, for “security” reasons. Then, once people got used to that, more and more rights were being taken away, step by step. When they started loading up the trains, that was only a very small step farther than the general population was already used to, so it wasn’t a big deal. Now, people like EndTimes and campusminister and Eric Hovind are doing the same thing. They are starting small, trying to take away the first amendment rights of people who disagree with them by filing bogus DCMA claims. They are also trying to deny basic rights to homosexuals, which is a preliminary step in their efforts to dehumanize them. Because once they get people convinced that the gays are not real people, it will be that much easier to take away even more rights.I know that the prospect of people like campusminister and Endtimes gaining power are extremely remote. The pendulum of American politics swings from left to right regularly, and already seems to be swinging back towards the center. But that does not mean I should be complacent. There is not a doubt in my mind that EndTimes or campusminister would execute me in a heartbeat if they got the chance, or send me to a concentration camp to protect the country from my toxic atheist ideas. Of course, they wouldn’t call it a concentration camp, they would call it a “Love of Christ Re-education Camp” and they would tell me that they loved me, (they just hated my sin,) right up to the time they turned on the showers.