I don’t have religious feelings. Until this week, I considered myself immune to offense, except those that are inflicted directly and personally. It bothers me that a smoker blows smoke in my face, that drunks pee at the door of my house, that they attack my nose with perfume, that they grope me, that they shout in my ear, that they ask me to dance when I have I’ve said that I don’t want a stranger to tell me their life story so I can write a novel with it. I was incapable of being offended by matters that did not touch me, stinked or bothered me. What other people did in their homes and with their things bothered me. Until now.
After the Christian Lawyers stamp scam, I have discovered that I am offended by many things that do not affect me personally. I am no different from a bishop or a provincial official of Vox. If they prick me, I jump anyway.
First of all, I am offended by the existence of article 521 of the Penal Code, in its two sections: the one that punishes offenses against believers (paragraph 1) and the one that punishes offenses against non-believers (paragraph 2), which defends me. me from attacks from which I do not want to be defended. It offends me that, since 2018, the successive governments of Pedro Sánchez have been incapable of forming a majority to repeal that article more typical of theocracies than democracies. It offends me that since September nothing has been processed despite the fact that it was announced in that regeneration plan that no one remembers anymore.
I am offended by the malicious malice of the ultra-right, which finds no other way to make headlines than to insult a woman who works in television and direct the hordes of hatred against her. I am offended by the miserable opportunism of so many positions, charges and sleazy scammers. It offends me that bishops only use their loudspeakers to join the pack that harasses a comedian. It offends me—and makes me tired—that every little filler joke is the argument of a new cultural battle. And it offends me that it offends me so much because I know that my offense is complicit in their dirty play and that their thing would be to ignore them and continue laughing with Lalachus. But what am I going to do, if in the end I also have religious feelings that swell and explode from time to time.
