Article -- Hatred

Deliver Us

By B.D. Adams

© 2016

Hate – Hate – Hate!! Along with Stupidity!!

   Of course, I hate. I hate being interrupted, I hate mosquitoes, I hate waiting in lines, I hated when my mom made me eat liver. We all have something we say we hate!!

   One thing I truly hate more than anything is stupidity!!!!

   A stupid thing, an oxymoron, I’d hear as a kid in Texas, was the phrase “to shoot fish in a barrel.” It meant that something was easy.  

   That could be translated to what Omar Mateen did.

   He walked into a nightclub that welcomed people – human beings -- who weren’t much different from him in looks or desires. Everyone there still danced, hugged and talked with their old friends and new ones.

   Horribly, Mateen began to shoot his fish. The nightclub was his barrel.

   I haven’t heard, as yet, how he acted while he squeezed the AR15 trigger to murder 50 people and wound 53 others. Was he smiling or laughing or shouting profanities?

   Oh, yes … I haven’t mentioned that Mateen HATED homosexuals. He chose the Pulse Nightclub, in Orlando FL, because the clientele was mostly gay/homosexual. He hated them so much he decided to rid, murder as many as he could at that nightclub. Perhaps he thought he was being nice to do his mayhem so near a hospital for the wounded.

   Was this his source of fun? Some people have distorted views of fun. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

   Am I gay? No, I’m not. However – like many heteros (not good grammar, I know) – I have had friends who were LGBT. And, as with friendships, people come and go – straight or gay.

   Many years ago, I would go to a gay bar/nightclub with my boyfriend, at the time, and other friends. To dance, drink and eat whatever the bar offered. I never contracted HIV because I had those friendships.

   See, you don’t get AIDS by being a friend. There’s that stupidity thing again.

   There are still a frightening number of people who are so self-righteous in their beliefs. Whites who hate blacks – Blacks who hate whites – Catholics who hate Protestants. Men who hate women and still get married … and vice versus. And, not to be left out, straights who hate gays!!

   Our country is becoming the melting pot of many negative issues. It’s like, “Go to America. Get a gun and go shoot whoever you want!”

   Now we need to be afraid of going to movie theaters, concerts, schools/colleges or any other gathering for the fear who might be there to kill!

   Fear of the unknown is bad enough.

   I believe in the Constitution. The ideas were appropriate for the time it was ratified. Now, however, the 2^nd Amendment, and a few others, need major overhauls.

   That young man had only bought his weapons a day or so before. Plus, he had been “watched” by the FBI. Hmmm (taps chin) … what does that tell us? He was watched while he bought an AR15 assault rifle?

   The prayer goes, “Deliver us from Evil.” Would God be offended if we amended it to, “Deliver us from hate and stupidity.”

   I feel the word evil has little meaning these days.

   “What? What did you say?” Someone is whispering in my ear. “No, I’m not being stupid. Really!!!”