It's a reprint of an article I wrote for make/shift magazine.
The other is that I was taught to live in a constant state of fear, especially as my folks believed that the Anti-Christ was coming before the Rapture, not after. I'm sure my late mother thought that Obama was just that man, as I heard lots of mutterings in my childhood that the Anti-Christ was a man of "dark skin" who comes from the East. Fortunately, I was never racist, not even as a kid, and didn't swallow the automatic malarkey that normally goes with this sort of association. Many, however, do, and are the "birthers" who disbelieve any evidence whatsoever that Obama is U.S. born, not Kenyan. You'd think they'd want to properly I.D. the Anti-Christ, but fuck no.
As you'll read in the article, some of the fear stuff I worked out in my own quirky way but a lot of it was quite difficult to heal from. Took many years of therapy and 12 Step work. And it explains why I lean far more liberal these days -- I can't stand living in the fear that Republicans thrive on. Just makes me want to crawl out of my skin when I get an earful of that.
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Date: 2011-03-06 10:08 pm (UTC)Well, it had a couple of different effects. The first, you can read about here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22591916/Dogma-Darth-Vader-and-My-Sexual-Awakening
It's a reprint of an article I wrote for make/shift magazine.
The other is that I was taught to live in a constant state of fear, especially as my folks believed that the Anti-Christ was coming before the Rapture, not after. I'm sure my late mother thought that Obama was just that man, as I heard lots of mutterings in my childhood that the Anti-Christ was a man of "dark skin" who comes from the East. Fortunately, I was never racist, not even as a kid, and didn't swallow the automatic malarkey that normally goes with this sort of association. Many, however, do, and are the "birthers" who disbelieve any evidence whatsoever that Obama is U.S. born, not Kenyan. You'd think they'd want to properly I.D. the Anti-Christ, but fuck no.
As you'll read in the article, some of the fear stuff I worked out in my own quirky way but a lot of it was quite difficult to heal from. Took many years of therapy and 12 Step work. And it explains why I lean far more liberal these days -- I can't stand living in the fear that Republicans thrive on. Just makes me want to crawl out of my skin when I get an earful of that.
Feel free to email me if you want to talk more.