Why Can't We Be Friends?

          It's just a matter of respect. If you respect total annihilation,
    then you will try find peaceful solutions. It's that simple.
    However, if you are crazy or believe God is speaking to you, you won't
    listen to reason. So, it was with a heavy heart the Reverend Tia chose
    to put her Wall-Mart career on hold. She was a part time Wall-Mart associate
    and an internet Minister of the Church of Fusion.
            How can people go about their lives and not believe in the same
    God? Isn't God important? Tia was a cashier at Wall-Mart. She knew
    she had four years to transfer to another department or advance to a
    head cashier. She needed to focus on what was important: fusion.
    How did a college educated mid-western Lutheran choose: fusion
    over all else? She had a vision of a universe driven by solar radiation.
    It was supported by science and appealed to her sense of humanitarianism.
    We were all star dust, driven by solar evolution.
            Tia tried to spread her vision in her internet church. There were few hits
    at The Church of Fusion. How could she be ignored? She knew God wanted
    more of her. Tia finished her cashiering and went to her Torus .. She walked
    to the front of the register line and poured gasoline over herself. A flick of her
    @Bic lighter and she would be headline news. The @Bic didn't light.
    Other cashiers called for management. Management called the police and
    set off the store fire alarm. Tia shook her lighter, but couldn't make a spark.
    A police negotiator asked Tia to drop the lighter.
          With fire extinguishers in hand the police wrestled Tia into restraints.
    "I must do God's work!" Tia exclaimed as she was escorted to an ambulance.
    "It's a nice sunny day." Tia commented as she was strapped onto a gurney.
    But, how can we nonbelievers judge Tia? How many religions are there?
    Tia would never be understood. She would be medicated and counseled on
    appropriate behavior. Tia would never be released until she was safe and
    assimilated back into productive society. Tia wondered why God was so
    strict. Then she smiled an inner laugh: fusion is annihilation. She must
    be deconstructed to burn pure. Tia was the perfect patient.

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