Am I supposed to be killing people? An atheist asks Zille

23 March 2015 - 12:31 By Bruce Gorton
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DA leader Helen Zille. File photo
DA leader Helen Zille. File photo
Image: ESA ALEXANDER

Apparently I am supposed to be going on a killing spree.

That is according to Helen Zille, who tweeted the following in December:

This is of course why the capital of Sweden has been renamed Murderopilis and Tokyo is in the process of being renamed “Death City.”

Of course murder and mayhem are so rare in South Africa, and we certainly have no spree killers.

Why it is only natural that an atheistic view of life being rare and finite, and death being total and final should prove less of a barrier to murder.

After all, isn’t life so much more precious when you consider it an entry exam for an eternity in heaven?

So I suppose it is a good thing for everyone involved that I'm lazy.

Sarcasm aside, I could say that what annoys me about Zille’s statement is its sheer ignorance.

I could say it was the classic not-pology that followed her tweet, “Oh I’m so sorry you feel offended by me claiming you’re a mass murderer waiting to happen, and that your lack of a belief in my beliefs means you don’t value human life.”

I could say that what really gets my goat is the fact that it shows the hypocrisy of the DA – much like Zille’s stance on the Cape Times does.

Just to be clear about what I am talking about here – in January the ANC denied a proposal leaked out of the Eastern Cape about a plan for the government to stop advertising with The Herald because it was critical of the ANC.

There was a fair stink about that, as there should be. The government can’t take punitive measures against the media for reporting in a way it doesn’t approve.

Zille has stood by her decision to stop the Western Cape’s subscription to the Cape Times because of an article she didn’t like. It is the same thing, except in Eastern Cape it is an accusation, in the Western Cape Zille stood by it.

If the ANC were to target religious minorities that way in this country much political hay would be made – a lot of it by the DA.

But what really pisses me off about this? The fact that we in South Africa now have to deal with this sort of hateful bullshit from one of our major political parties.

This is fundamentally an American style of politics, and not the decent end of America at that. I don’t want a South African Republican Party for an opposition, I want a party that stands by our citizens regardless of their religious affiliation or lack thereof.

And Helen Zille has illustrated quite clearly that the DA is not that party.

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