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To whoever is listening to these recordings,
please let me once again apologize
for the horrific actions of my son.
I cry every day that he was taken from me
by men like Reverend Ian MacDougal and his ilk
who use their faith as an excuse
to kill, torture, and suppress.
I hope that each of these recordings
will help to preserve the truth that
the Empire has desperately sought to erase
from our history.
Over the course of the third millennium,
technology advanced more and more,
particularly in terms of advances in
the field of virtual technology, and
the impact it had on
mass media and communication,
and by extension, on global culture.
With those advances can the proliferation
of lots of information, which led to major
cultural and scientific advances, which led to
large and growing numbers of people across the world
embracing secular humanism and social democracy
as opposed to the contradictory values
of capitalism and Christianity that had
dominated Western civilization for
several generations in history.
But not everyone was happy with that.
In fact, a lot of people, not just evangelicals,
but various other forms of Christianity which
have since gone extinct, as well as extinct religions
such as Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Scientologists, and also
even some disaffected voters, who were tricked
into thinking the atheists that had risen to power
were out to destroy them.
It became an easy case to make,
with rural America left behind
by the technological advancements
that the government championed,
which left many of them out of work.
And of course, as well as environmental changes
which, at the time,
they were unable to adapt to
as quickly as others.
All of them were deceived
by hateful demagogues into thinking that
the traditional way of “American life”
was under siege by “radical atheism”.
That was how my son,
Damian Cunningham the First,
rose to power,
The irony, of course, is that
the original Constitution of the United States
was founded on ideals such as
free expression and separation of church and state.
In that sense,
they were the original revolutionaries.
As the years passed,
the dramatically expanded America would
become barely recognizable by the men who
founded the United States
nearly a thousand years ago.
With martial law still in place,
the legislative and judicial branches that
kept the chief executive in check
were rendered obsolete, and the Constitution was
completely rewritten to allow Damian Cunningham
and his future descendants to stay in power, and
continue to impose his strict evangelical Christian views.
Countless men, women, and children
who opposed his draconian laws rooted in theology
were imprisoned without trial, tortured,
raped,
and murdered.
And that’s why we’re here.
That’s why I’ve abandoned my faith,
and why I ultimately founded
the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance,
in the hopes of stopping them.
Those claiming to follow
“the word of God”
are ironically and hypocritically
violating one of the principles
found in Christianity, and in
many other ancient religions:
To Love Thy Neighbor.
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