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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Title: Re: [internetworkers] not about bumperstickers

Hey tuz
This slack-church-goer-but-christian-nonetheless would like to personally apologize for anyone who has attacked you personally in the name of a “Christian nation” and I would certainly love to buy you a beer and listen to your thoughts on the world.  I don’t want you to move the hell out.  :)

Tony


On 9/21/06 6:51 PM, "matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org> wrote:

> No worries, Greg.  I was just trying to be funny.  Ya know, "Ha Ha  
> Funny."  That is my whole schtick.
>
> I am desperately curious to know why today, of all days, you are  
> politically worked up.  Was there a new development of which I am not  
> aware?  Have they finally outlawed that whole pesky "Free Speech" thing?
>
> Actually, I have been "politically worked up" for more years than I  
> can count (Disclosure: I can only count up to six), but I have found  
> that trying to educate and enlighten people or even open their minds  
> just a tiny bit results in the most hateful personal attacks I have  
> ever experienced.  I don't have enough fingers to count the number of  
> folks who have angrily told me to "Move the hell out of their country  
> if I don't like it" or the amount of people who wanted to get into a  
> physical altercation with me because I was disproving the "facts"  
> that they had heard from the TV box.
>
> This was mostly in Carrboro and Orange County.  Had I tried such  
> treasonous activities in Raleigh or Roxboro I surely would have been  
> lynched.  As a final data point, the majority of these True Believers  
> strongly claimed to be of the "Christian faith" and repeatedly  
> trumpeted the line that "This is a Christian nation."  I did not  
> stick around long enough to explain Jesus Christ to them.
>
> So, instead I just take my little photographs and make little jokes  
> about how strange the world can be sometimes.  My career of fighting  
> ignorance and propaganda has come to a less-than-graceful end.
>
> dave m.
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
>
> > Actually I'm the one who should apologize.  I took this thing way  
> > off track.  I am a touch "politically worked up" today.
> >
> > Sorry all.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On 9/21/06, matusiak wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> >
> > >  "I know very well what God hates..."
> >
> > Well, my innocuous little discussion of funny bumperstickers has
> > certainly gone off the rails.  Sorry to everyone for bringing it up.
>
>
>
>
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