True Freedom

Constitutionally, legally, we have the freedom and right to speak freely, to gather freely, to print whatever we want, to follow whatever religion we want, and to petition our government about anything we don't want.

But socially, if I come out and say a certain race drives me crazy or that women are better nurturers than men, or that I believe the 1611 King James Version of the Bible is the only way to hear God's word, or if I declare my support for evolution or creation, or something in between, someone somewhere is going to have a problem with it and ridicule me, or at the very least respond with blind emotion rather than reason.

America isn't really free. I don't know that there is any place that is truly free, because humans are social creatures. We want other people to like us and being alone is torture.

Except for when you are 87 and senile. Then you can say whatever you want. Like the person who came into the bookstore today and gave me a tip (honestly... this is the third tip I've gotten since I worked there... who tips retail salespeople??). He told me about how God healed his hemorrhoids and that was somehow relevant to his story about Sid Roth. He gave me $8.33 and told me to either donate it to Sid Roth or split it with my coworker Kristen, depending on what God told me to do. God told me to split it with Kristen first and then decide how to use it. Then God told her to use it on ice cream.

I hope that someday BEFORE I'm senile I will be able to be free enough to give money away and talk to people about hemorrhoids and the 1611 King James Bible without causing anyone to react vehemently.

Freedom like that is true freedom.