The other week my one assisted living client with disabilities' sister was saying that she has this Wiccan prayer book and that it has some really good prayers, but she found out later that the guy who wrote it is notoriously anti-gay, which is mega surprising since the Wiccan community just isn't like that at all.
"You can't tell that from the prayers at all," she was like. "And they are damn good prayers."
She says that she still has the book, but she keeps it deep in her bookstack and hasn't read it in years.
I then told her that years ago I started reading the Left Behind series to educate myself about evangelicalism, and then later after that I was pruning books and wanted to get rid of the first two I had from that series, but I wasn't so sure what to do with them, since I didn't want to give them away and put that energy and those ideas out into the universe.
"I actually put them deep in my trashcan so no-one would see them and get them," I was like, and I said that those are the only books in my life that I've ever thrown out.
I then said that I don't believe in book-banning or book-burning, but it was just too much as an individual to go out and spread those particular ideas by giving them away like I would with any other used books of mine that I was done with.
She nodded and agreed.
. . .
I also asked her why the one Wiccan prayer book guy was so anti-guy.
"Probably because he's an old closet case," she was like. "Same fucking story as always."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment