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See YouTube 8/13/19 video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oppression on Every Front” (written 3/20 for Atheist Pride Day), read from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” outside in Chicago south of Grand Central Station (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube 8/13/19 video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Oppression on Every Front” (written 3/20 for Atheist Pride Day), read from her poetry collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” outside in Chicago south of Grand Central Station (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296 “Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296 “Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera live film; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Oppression on Every Front Janet Kuypers 3/20/19 (written on and for Atheist Pride Day) After understanding the oppression women feel with objectification and the threat of rape, it is hard to back away without finding oppression everywhere. Women wanting sexual freedom — and a human feeling of control in their life with birth control — they might be oppressed from it because of religious hinderances. Also, anyone in the LGBTQ community can still be oppressed, treated like nothing because of religion. Speaking of, some religions still even inflict genital mutilation. But those religions keep their lemmings in line, asking them to go to church to hear their speeches every week, and don’t forget to regularly give them money. They tell you that this is the path to morality, when the bloodiest wars in history have been fought in the name of religion. Yes, they say this is the path to morality. So, after using your brain for years, after looking for evidence and finding no proof, you made a rational decision about there being no god, based on all the evidence. And when you made that decision, it was like a huge weight had suddenly been lifted off your shoulders. You can be moral and not fall in line with religion’s backwards ideas — and by the way, religion holds no ownership over morals whatsoever, especially when so many people claim a set of religious beliefs that they don’t follow. So when you look at this one decision you made, you can feel pride in it, because you know it is right. And when close friends, who just had something terrible happen to them so they reverted back to their Baptist faith, write you a long letter asking you to reconsider, because being an Atheist means you lose out on heaven — but believing, even if there’s no god, that means you lost nothing... it is at those moments, trust me, that you’ll understand. Because if you’re supposed to believe when there is no god, then you missed out on life altogether. And when they try to convert you, you’ll know that you’re actually the one on the moral high ground. Trust me, it will actually feel good when you see people trying to turn you into someone else, where you’re forced to shut off your mind. It will feel nice when people don’t like the fact that you’re using you brain. After a while, it will surprise you that so many people, globally, are so willing to turn off their minds. So, living in the bible-belt of the U.S.A., you may live somewhere where everyone else believes in a God, if you feel oppressed, feel pride knowing the moral caliber of those trying to ridicule you. I know it can be hard, when the rest of the world decides to rely on faith and not reason, how they only lambast those in the minority. These lemmings will do whatever they are told to do. You were so bold as use your own brain — and use it you did — to make your own rational choices. Guess what. They were also moral choices too. The religious masses won’t tell you that (there’s not money in it for them, and wouldn’t Jesus be proud of a money-first mentality now in his church). So, based on morality, and based on the choices you chose to make, I shouldn’t be be the first to say this, but I’m proud of you.

Image from the 2013 Atheist Pride Day at www.atheists.org

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