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Ou est Seymor?

Where is my little arachnid friend.  At 8 AM, he was busily reinforcing his web.  At 10 AM he was nowhere to be seen.

Had he gotten tired of his unsuccessful efforts to get himself a nice meal and traveled to a better location?  I looked all around the room but didn't find him.

At noon, I checked again. There was a very small gray spot near his web.  Had he died of starvation and shriveled up?  I'll look some more later.

 

Why do people hate?

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has published their annual hate crime documentation.  They list 733 hate groups operating in the U. S. in 2021.

I was disturbed to find several Baptist Churches in the group. (You remember Westboro.)

I spent a few years attending Sunday School and being baptized in the First Baptist Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts and I never noticed any hate activity, except when I brought a pack of playing cards to a church Halloween party. The female "protector of the faith" accused me of worshipping kings and queens.  She scared the hell out of my eight-year-old psyche. 

I pray that someday people in hate groups will "see the light" and "get a life!"

But, if each of the current 733 hate groups had 300 members, that would only be about 22,000 idiots out of the millions of Americans who are disgusted with these groups as I am.

Belief

The Week magazine wrote in 2012:

"A congressman who sits on the House Committee on Science and Technology has dismissed 'evolution, embryology, and Big Bang theory' as 'lies from the pit of hell.'

Speaking to a church group, Rep. Paul Broun (R. Ga.) said that the earth is only 9,000 years old, and that science keeps people 'from understanding that they need a savior.'"

 Surprisingly Paul was (or still is) a physician. He served as a Representative for Georgia from 2007 to 2015.

Belief is a funny thing.  The hate group members probably strongly believe that their "cause" is right. The Baptist lady believed she was right. Rep Braun knows his beliefs are proper.

I believe that we should all love one another, and I know that my belief is the only thing that will save this planet.

Tout fini!

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