Self-Appointed Moralists:
The Christian Khomeini's, or more specifically, the dubiously ethical, usually conservative morality groups and their members, get away with a lot of things that they should never get away with. Sometimes I wish that whoever bore these so-called 'Born Again' moralists a second time around would get post-partum depression, and smack these people around and back to reality. Many of these groups and individuals, including many conservative politicians, believe they have the Divine Right to meddle with everyone else's freedoms of action and choice. Funny thing is, the French aristocracy once pretty much believed the same thing, and look what happened to them.
Many of these moralists like to try to ban, burn and censor any and everything that might offend, contradict, or refute their own beliefs. Nazi-style book burning is just the tip of the iceburg with many of them. As I see it, if the beliefs of moralists cannot co-exist with other beliefs, then something is obviously awry. These people would like everyone to conform to a very narrow-minded lifestyle. They would likely try to banish or punish any dissidents to their narrow-minded beliefs, if they could. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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