A strange thing happened to a friend of mine the other day. She was at work when she noticed a coworker looking rather sullen in the corner of the office. She went to ask what was wrong, when suddenly her coworker broke into fits of wailing and sobbing. The woman’s shoulders convulsed with such force as she cried, that my friend assumed there must have been a death in the family, or that someone close to her was sick or dying. My friend immediately tried to comfort her and ask what was wrong. This is what she was told: FEMA was building camps to round up and annihilate Christians. The roundup would start soon, but it would move slowly and quietly. Whole families would disappear and not be heard from again, but it would be made to look like they simply moved out of town. Christian children, her children, would be gassed and put into plastic coffins.
I saw a story along these lines over at Brian Kane’s place a while back, and at that time I laughed it off. Running across it again, I was struck at the arrogant, paranoid silliness of it. What intelligent, lucid person could honestly and seriously believe that our government is preparing to round up and annihilate Christians? How thoroughly arrogant and self-absorbed does one have to be in order to have convinced themselves that our government, with all the other pressing problems it faces today, will soon be abducting and murdering them en masse them simply because they believe in Jesus Christ?
(BUT IT’S ON THE INTERNET!! IT MUST BE TRUE!!)
Interesting, isn’t it, how these rampant unfounded fears remained largely under wraps during the eight years that George W. Bush was laying waste to this country. Then again, The Worst President EVER © was a true Christian, anointed by Lord God Almighty to lead this country into…the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and two never-ending wars. Nice work, eh?? Now that there’s a Democrat (and..GASP!!!…a black man!!!!) in the White House, NOW the government is going to be abducting and exterminating Christians??
Jeebus, these people are nuts….
Putting aside the obvious questions about why the government, composed of Christians, run by Christians, largely for the benefit of Christians, would round up 90 percent of the country and put them into camps, the online FEMA camp rumors were debunked ages ago, most thoroughly by Popular Mechanics - who then sent their editor-in-chief on Glenn Beck’s show twice to set the paranoiacs straight. One of the supposed U.S. government concentration camps is actually a North Korean prison camp. The other is a train yard in the Midwest somewhere, while the third is a National Guard base in Michigan. This information isn’t hard to look up. The Popular Mechanics piece is among the first things to pop up when you search for FEMA camps. Yet the rumors and paranoia still persist.
Apparently, faith for some means a complete, total, and unequivocal jettisoning of anything remotely resembling reason, intellectual agility, and common, garden-variety common sense. What would Jesus do? HE’D FREAK OUT!!!
Good Lord, y’all…how about you just get over yourselves already? This is America, where you’re guaranteed freedom of religion…even if you’d deny that same freedom to non-Christians. No one’s going to care enough about you to oppress you and kill you for your beliefs, no matter how much you get off on feeling as if you’re an oppressed minority. I don’t know where all y’all went to school, but where I did 90% doesn’t a minority make.
