Over at The Age of Reason blog, Al gives an excellent light touch to the heavy matter of FEAR and its choke-hold on humanity. In this piece, he also mentions that one of the most horrendous words ever to be coined is "heretic." I so agree!
Often in my zany attempts at being humorous, I have changed the word to "hairy tick." But it's a poor reference indeed. We don't want ticks on our bodies, hairy ones or smooth ones; they're blood-suckers either way and they carry diseases. But the idea that a person can be labeled a HERETIC and therefore a human unworthy of life itself - well that is beyond words. It's certainly beyond humor!
And as Al so clearly points out, that whole labeling thing began due to fear.
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