Reader Mailbag: "as i read along it's almost like i can picture you doing all that with spit flying out of your mouth, eyes burning red, hair all askew, or something, like rumplestiltzkin so mad he dug ahole in the ground pounding his foot and ranting"

Wow, neglect a blog and look what it produces! Hate(ish) mail! I'm so proud:

From: brenda mcmullen <brynda1@hotmail.com>    
To liberalserving@gmail.com
   
re: your web blogs

hello. i have a question if you have a few minutes to answer i'd be grateful. I happened to stumble across your blogs when i was looking for something else and somehow popped up on your jesus is funny section. one question please, how can someone be so filled with hate. as i read along it's almost like i can picture you doing all that with spit flying out of your mouth, eyes burning red, hair all askew, or something, like rumplestiltzkin so mad he dug ahole in the ground pounding his foot and ranting. what happened to you? how can anyone be so mad at GOD and christians?? I just never read anything so sad and heartbreaking. you seem consumed with hate. i hope your ok and try and remember GOD is love, not hate

thanks for your time

brenda inscoe

Thank you for your time, Brenda with a small b. Let me take the time to answer your questions...

how can someone be so filled with hate.

I know this is rhetorical, but I should say that I'm not filled with hate - I'm a pretty happy-go-lucky guy who gets really pissed off at the news with some regularity.

i can picture you doing all that with spit flying out of your mouth, eyes burning red, hair all askew, or something,

Nope, I'm pretty much bald. Here's a pic of me holding a chicken with my cute friend Christy:

You can't see the baldness, I know, but that's a pretty typical expression for you to imagine while I type about crummy virgin mary apparitions.

what happened to you?

Well I'm getting old, so lots has happened, but I assume you're asking what's happened to me regarding religion. Not much story to tell - I was raised in a liberal Catholic church, so I was pretty lucky in that department. No fire nor brimstones for me as a kid - mostly just stealthy anti-taxman republican messages I managed to get over. Then when I was a teenager my best friend's mom was a crazy - CRAZY - jesus freak who literally chanted prayers over me and tried to nag jesus into my heart. She stole our best, most sacrilegious stuff and buried it in her backyard...with more praying. Funny, funny stuff. Still is.

how can anyone be so mad at GOD and Christians??

Well really, I don't know how you're taking "mad" away from the jesus is funny file You should read about all the bad, evil things "Christians" do in the name of your god filed under jesus is not funny. Judgmental fuckers imposing their values on others...that makes me mad. Oh, and you might have gathered I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in any gods. Hard to be mad at something that's not there.

I know it's kind of mean to mock people and perhaps it can hurt your feelings, but I don't understand why Christians always assume it comes from a place of anger. Really, evangelical culture is so ripe for teasing - so ridiculous. Any guilt I have about the meanness is eased by the really quite rude imposition that is integral to evangelism. You love religion. I respect everyone's right to believe whatever whacked bs they want to. Sometimes I get into conspiracy theories (I am all over that Diebold shit), but if I get in your face about it - well, shame on me.

That's just my beef with Christians on an interpersonal level. Once I consider the evil repression foisted on our country (and me, personally, individually) by ballot-measure-happy Christian activists bent on banning my gay wedding (and taxing me for the benefits my company provides to my partner of 10 years who I cannot marry), well, all that guilt is gone. Christianity is a massive beast of freedom-limiting "values" and it's hurting our country and our way of life.  Any puny pot shot I take is a-ok and if anything - not enough.

Comments

[brenda with a one b today]

ok, that sorta sums it up. thanks for answering so fast. i didn't realize that we christians all think your swearing cursing hate filled words wern't said in hate. i was wrong i guess it just sounds like hate when you read it. i couln't imagine anyone,say, having an anti gay website and saying all kind of mean nasty things about gays and then saying, gee i hope noone thinks i mean all this in hate.lol.and the judgemental christians imposing their values on you.who's imposing anything on you? it's ok for you to say whatever you feel like and if anyone else is, oh their evil,trying to tell me what to do! noone cares what you do or what you think.who could care? it's a free country to run yur mouth anywhere and anytime you want to and i'm glad you do. I just felt really sad last night after I went home and was thinking about you because in my wildest dreams or worst nightmares, I am never filled with so much hate or maybe a better word if you don't like to believe you hate so many people, -disgust. i guess your just disgusted with christians. i can understand that.most of them make me sick to,but i would never make a page like this and call it,say, gays are funny and put all kinds of mean nasty stuff about them. I try and keep my discust to myself,and i'm not talking bad about gays, i could care less what other people do, i just ment, how would you feel to come across a gays are so funny page as it's as near and dear to your heart as Christ is to me. so anyhow..thanks for your time and you have a real talent for making web pages i must say and i will be checking you guys out from time to time. i'm a reader and you have alot to read..thanks again, brenda--

[ryan]

"and the judgemental christians imposing their values on you.who's imposing anything on you?"

Brenda, last Tuesday seven states passed ballot initiates that specifically deny benefits to gay people or ban gay marriage (which at the very least denies me thousands of rights and benefits that straight people enjoy). I think that's an imposition.

Sure it's childish for me to mock stupid christians...but you started it by crapping on my rights (and making me pay taxes on the benefits my company provides my partner). You can say whatever you want about gay people, but stop throwing extra taxes at me.

[Brenda]

Last night, before I went to sleep I was thinking about what all you said. I realized that I really was mistaken about the whole thing. All of a sudden as I lay there, I did laugh! And I realized, that page really is funny and I must of just had the stupid typical knee-jerk reaction that a million people have before just sitting back and really looking at something from some other persons perspective.Everyone has their own ideas and thoughts and lifestyles. I didn't mean to step on anyone rights, I really enjoy all kinds of people. I always have a good time where ever I am and I have been alot of places with alot of different people. I really just want to say, I was wrong and I’m sorry I went over the top there for a minute. I think I just saw Christ being poked fun at and I wanted to jump in, open my big mouth and start swinging! Without even stepping back and taking a closer look at the situation. I assume that’s how a lot of trouble in this world starts. Sheesh! Anyway, sorry I lost it there for a day or two. J I will relax, open my eyes and mind, inform my friends, just try and see the other light sometimes. Have the best Turkey day ever!
Brenda