Bizarre

I had a really odd drea m last night. In my dream myself, and several other people were bored and individually we all decided to fill our time by going to a church service in a nearby town. I was doing it because I thought it would be amusing (much like the signage in downtown Wolfville used to be). I think that's why everyone else went as well as most of them weren't Christian (in the dream at least) and this was a Christian church (though a rather strange one).

I don't remember if I was there for the sermoning or not but I was there for the movie. And the whole conclusion to be reached from the movie was that atheists are evil. Needless to say I wasn't overly pleased but I kind of just commented to the people I knew who were there (having run in to them shortly after I arrived) and let it pass.

Next they were performing some sort of bizarre ritual. Basically they would make an 'evil copy' of themselves and then have to deal with it. I think it was sort of like a convocation thing as only a few people had to do it. I'm not quite sure how they were supposed to win as any pain the copy felt was also felt by the original. Anyway some woman was doing the test and getting rather badly injured so we complained. That turned out to be a rather bad idea as it revealed our non-Christian (or at least non-this highly unusual Christian sect) status.

After getting all sorts of talk about how we were sinners and heathens and what not we decided to leave. For some reason we didn't go to our vehicles though we instead walked outside. We were going up a hill and then a fire truck appeared. Apparently the whole town was anti-non-Christian and the firemen told us to turn back. When we didn't do so they turned the hoses on us (thus forcing us to turn back).

Then the dream just got weird. For some reason instead of leaving we holed up in rooms in the church for a few days. We were rather unhappy with the treatment we'd received and I was planning on filing a complaint with the RCMP when we got home (I figured it'd be an our word against their's thing and we probably wouldn't accomplish anything, I still felt it was something I very much wanted to do). I'm not sure why we stayed out the church instead of going home but they never attempted to kick us out (possibly because they didn't know we were there). We actually befriended someone inside the church and they were assisting us but that's about where I got before my dog decided to wake me.

I thought it was a rather interesting dream and it brought together a few ideas in my head (mostly about why atheists (or even non-Christians) are discriminated against and why there's not much in the way of an organized effort to stop that effort. They are ideas that have been swirling around for months but I think I may finally put them in written form in the next day or two.