Nice one, Daisy.
My heart goes out to Wallybee and that whole family.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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-t - Aug 17, 2010 7:53:03 am PDT #28913 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Spidra Webster - Aug 17, 2010 7:58:45 am PDT #28914 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
~ma to Wallybee's family, billytea.
Calli - Aug 17, 2010 7:59:56 am PDT #28915 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry about WallyBee's close friends, bt.
Gudanov - Aug 17, 2010 7:59:57 am PDT #28916 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I think also there is a segment of Christians (from my church experiences) that thrive on the perception of persecution; that they need to fight against a hostile culture for their beliefs just like early Christians in the New Testament. I think this can magnify issues like the mosque and gay marriage, etc... It reminds me of Mike Huckabee during his presidential run saying that there were "Plenty of choices for candidates who don't believe in God". A sense of being an oppressed minority.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 8:06:44 am PDT #28917 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I think also there is a segment of Christians (from my church experiences) that thrive on the perception of persecution; that they need to fight against a hostile culture for their beliefs just like early Christians in the New Testament. I think this can magnify issues like the mosque and gay marriage, etc... It reminds me of Mike Huckabee during his presidential run saying that there were "Plenty of choices for candidates who don't believe in God". A sense of being an oppressed minority.
That was a big thing in the freak-ass church -- if you were being persecuted for your beliefs, then you were THAT MUCH BETTER of a Christian!
Of course, they defined "persecuted" as "my co-worker has invoked legal statute to get me to stop proselytizing at the water cooler." OH NOES.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2010 8:07:02 am PDT #28918 of 30000
brillig
A sense of being an oppressed minority.
Some denominations are based on having been persecuted, sometimes with actual persecution. It's odd that they see this as "we must defense ourselves, because we have been persecuted", rather than, "we know how you feel and will defend you from persecution, because we have been persecuted, too." My Persecution is More Relevant Than Your Persecution.
It's kind of hard to have sympathy for the Christians in the Roman Colosseum when you've got the Inquisition to put up against it.
erikaj - Aug 17, 2010 8:12:47 am PDT #28919 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. Also, welcome to my world.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2010 8:16:52 am PDT #28920 of 30000
brillig
It's Mormon thing, too, all about the "We were driven out into the wilderness!", which is actually true. But they don't see the corollary to driving others out into metaphorical wildernesses. It's a willful blindness that really annoys me, and freaks out the True Believers when I bring it up.
amyth - Aug 17, 2010 8:20:35 am PDT #28921 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yeah, Andrew Sullivan said yesterday on his blog that the one Republican he wanted to hear from on the issue was Mitt Romney.
smonster - Aug 17, 2010 8:21:30 am PDT #28922 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My Persecution is More Relevant Than Your Persecution.
I love Passover because the Haggadah we use puts heavy emphasis on empathy for those suffering. "As long as there is slavery, none are free". And the pouring out of wine for the plagues, and God smacking down the angels during the Red Sea thing by saying "My creatures are perishing, and you rejoice?"
The point is not the Oppression Olympics. The point is opening up, not closing down. The point is not the suffering, but one's response.