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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 02:16 PM

  So hating people simply because they believe in god isn't a choice either?

  Hating people who abuse and oppress you is a natural reaction.

  I'm an atheist living in the middle of the Bible Belt, I don't hate theists, I just wish they would leave me alone and stop trying to enact their particular theology into law.

  If I could be you, if you could be me

  For just one hour, if we could find a way

  To get inside each other's mind

  If you could see you through my eyes

  Instead your own ego I believe you'd be

  I believe you'd be surprised to see

  That you've been blind

  Walk a mile in my shoes

  just walk a mile in my shoes

  Before you abuse, criticize and accuse

  Then walk a mile in my shoes

  Now if we spend the day

  Throwin' stones at one another

  'Cause I will think, 'cause I will think

  To wear my hat the same way you do

  Well, I may be common people

  But I'm your brother

  And when you strike out

  You're tryin' to hurt me

  It's hurtin' you, Lord how mercy

  Now there are people on reservations

  And out in the ghetto

  And whether they're for the grace of God

  Or you and I,

  If I only had wings of a little angel

  Don't you know, I'd fly

  To the top of a mountain

  And then I'd cry, cry, cry

  -Joe South

  laddeedadadadanee, etc, etc

  Oh the Games People Play Now

  every night and every day now

  Never meanin what they say now

  never sayin what they mean

  Why they while away the hours in their ivory towers

  till they're covered up with flowers

  in the back of a black limosine

  Ladandaladandadada, Ladandaladandadada

  Oh we make one another cry, breakin' hearts when we say goodbye

  Cross our hearts and we hope to die, that the other was to blame

  and neither one will ever give in, so we gaze at an 8 by 10

  Thinkin' 'bout the things that might have been, and it's a dirty rotten shame

  -Joe South

  —Aycharaych Read Aycharaych's other letters
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