Dems Chant, "We Are Going to Hell," May Go Nationwide



Perhaps is stems from Ron Reagan's unscripted trailer, "I'm not afraid of hell." Wherever, Texas dems at their convention chanted, "We are all going to hell." It seems like the perfect kind of ridicule for today's young voters. It makes light of Christianity's weaponized mythology.

The stage was set for "not afraid of hell" by polling. It seems to me and to many others the percentage of people who actually thought of themselves as Christian, who said they pray and who said they believed the Christian God really existed, has always been overstated by social pressure. People don't want to offend others, so they have often answered polling by saying what they thought other wanted them to say. As time continued it became more accepted to say, "I don't believe in any religion." These today an called "nones." That it is OK to claim "none" perhaps made it OK to ridicule "hell." To critics of this view, I admit it's always possible other social pressure is in place now elevating the "nones" numbers.

I'm sure there are liberal strategists who are worried about Democrats openly mocking the Christian faith. They may or may not be right that it hurts the broader appeal of liberal politics. It is one of those things, however, that is not always controllable and will happen regardless of what pundits think.

We can all lament non-religious liberals separating and isolating themselves from practicing Christians by confrontational chants that ridicule like "We are going to hell." We can lament, as well, conservative Christians who have from its beginning confronted and challenged non believers. We need to remember human beings during thousands of years, maybe hundreds of thousands of years, during paganism. Europe was once many more countries that it is today, many hating the others. Human history has been one of disagreeing and separating. 


 

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