(If you arrived here via a link in my HuffPo piece on Americans United contacting the IRS about pastor Charles Worley, you were supposed to end up not at this post, but rather at NC Pastor: “Let’s put all the queers and lesbians behind electric fences and let them die.” [VIDEO]. This post is a follow-up to that one. Sorry for that linky snafu.)
I mean … what does one do with this sort of thing?
I’m starting to feel like I’m living in some kind of Bizzaro World parallel universe, where … well, where no one ever goes to a decent school, for one.
I’m not saying that this woman is stupid; she doesn’t seem particularly organically stupid at all. But that she’s pretty dramatically uneducated is painfully obvious. She seems to have almost no capacity for the most basic kind of reasoning—the kind of reasoning that is the first and primary benefit of even a solid elementary school education.
And her anger is palpable; she positively radiates hostility. And I don’t blame her for being angry. It’s a terrible thing to even say, but the truth is that the world is generally a terribly harsh place for people who are uneducated. When you don’t know how to at all reason—not to mention when you’ve been trained to believe there’s not really much you personally can do to impact the quality of your life—your world very quickly gets and remains very small.
And people aren’t designed to live lives too small. You trap most people in too stifling a place, and effectively remove their hope, and you end up with people who during most of their waking hours are looking for nothing so much as a fight.
This woman would do damage. She’ll take a motherfucker out. People are always saying that they can’t understand how everyone in Nazi Germany could have supported what the Nazis were doing. And yes, I understand that many citizens in Germany at that time had no idea what their army was doing. But basically this woman, right here, is the answer to that question. People of her ilk are exactly how the Nazi army could have done what it did.
You put this woman in anything near a mob of others like her, hand her a drink and a baseball bat, and then point her toward some gays, or Jews, or Muslims—or anyone she thinks is either of those? Some skulls are gonna get cracked. People will die. And she’ll come home, throw her bloody clothes in her washing machine, down a beer or six, and sleep that night just as sound as she could be, secure in her conviction that she’s a perfectly good, perfectly God-fearing woman.
People like her get me itchy. They make me want to start storing food and buying weapons. And I’m not sure that in America today we’re producing any more of any kind of person than we are people like her. I think she’s the norm these day. If not, she’s entirely too close to it.
I’m not saying that I’m quite yet freaking out. But I am starting to get that weird tingly feeling that you sometimes do when it feels like there’s a big, ugly storm coming your way, one that it’s just possible you’re not going to be entirely capable of weathering.
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Fine John I’ll say it. This woman is completely ******* stupid. Why are people so scared to say what we’re thinking when we observe knuckle dragging troglodytes like this woman. You want to know what is really frightening to me? The fact that there are a lot more people like her…and they’re all breeding. They’re giving birth to more stupid people who are going to be just like this woman in the video. Their world view is ignorant, she’s stupid, and they’re wasting perfectly good air that the critical and rational people of society could be utilizing right now.
I don’t only loathe these Sheeple, I hate them. I despise the fact that they’re the ones that decide or influence public policy, that they obstruct science being taught in public schools, that they propagate injustice and prejudicial treatment of minorities, that they influence politics and teach their inbred hillbilly redneck children how to hate. These stupid Sheeple encourage their offspring to not question or challenge authority and to believe a man simply because he stands behind a pulpit and claims to know the word of god. If I had my way I would not only place them behind an electric, I wouldn’t even bother to feed them. I would let them all die and laugh for joy as one ignorant redneck passed away after another. Good bye hillbilly Sheeple I wouldn’t have to abide them in the United States any more.
I teach at a tech college in the south and some of those people are my students. And if we go around saying that ANY kind of people is a waste of air, lebensunwertes leben? To me, that’s also dangerous… That’s to say that people can be so wrong that they should just die? No. They are so wrong that they should just CHANGE. Some do change. Some do learn. And you never know who will until you give them a chance.
5 or 10 yrs ago i never would have guessed how many of my ideas would change… Maybe i wasn’t uneducated but i was sheltered and stubborn.
I’m not saying we should be nice to people who are THAT wrong. There’s a point at which one runs out of nice.
But i grew up hearing that some people didn’t deserve to exist, and that’s a part of my past that i want to get away from, not just change the target of.
Thank you, n. I have been bothered by the tone of some of our brothers’ and sisters’ comments here, and I appreciate y our speaking out on this.
The ideas she espouses, the environment that made her as unreasoning as she seems, and the hatred evident in it all are “unworthy of life”, but Christians must remember that His Sacrifice was perhaps more for her than it was for us, if I may say it that way.
She is showing more evidence of the sickness that we all share. She needs healing, not hating, as does her pastor and the rest of his misled flock.
Thanks John! I refer folks to your site all the time. So many people think they haven’t a reasonable choice between being good Christians with being anti gay. For my Christian friends who struggle with what the Scriptures say about homosexuality I offer the following. A wonderful book that really helped me with this issue called Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? Revised and Updated: Positive Christian Response, by Letha Dawson Scanzon and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Harper-Collins. Here are some other great on line resources to consider: http://www.sacred-texts.com/lgbt/index.htm. , http://johnshore.com/, http://www.paulonhomosexuality.com/, http://someone-to-talk-to.net/. Thanks again John, you are a real blessing!
Wow! As we say in Texas, “Bless her heart!” This poor woman’s world view and understanding of this situation is so tiny. How frightening it must be to go through life never knowing what is around the corner…unless you stay to a very small geography…I hope at some point she takes a leap of faith and allows her heart and mind to open.
Sadly it is the norm for some areas of the country (aka the bible/bigot belt)…but I do disagree in that there are many more open minded, freethinking people out there to combat these types of people and I dont think our numbers are decreasing I think our numbers and supporters are increasing with each generation! We also have highly educated, genius minds that can carry on a conversation and conjugate a complete thought.
I can research 1 and find the statistics but with each generation the church is dying off and the numbers prove it!!! The younger generations do not want to go to church and learn to hate and judge! They are more tolerant and more accepting and religion is just not something they want!!! These backwards little hick towns are always going to exist, I would not underestimate them, however I would not fear them, and I would not assume to give them more strength in numbers then they truly have! No way am I intimidated by these people! I am excited to see them GO!!! This country may be moving at a snails pace, but we are moving forward not backwards, these hate filled, bigots do not represent the nations thinking as a whole. Many of us are just getting our traction, coming out of our shells to speak up, stand up and not allow this kind of hate to go on unnoticed! A small and declining group of people has been portrayed as tremendously powerful and growing so rapidly that they might take over the country—when in fact that number of converts among this group is down and dropping. They are rarely able to convert and adult, middle-class American. Their share of the population is not 25 percent, but at most 7 percent of the country and falling. All these numbers come from the churches themselves.
Again these are my opinions, take them with a grain of salt…..and don’t forget the shot of tequila
Evangelicals are not the fastest-growing faith group in America. Neither are Pentecostals. Nonbelievers are the fastest-growing faith group in America in numbers and percentage. From 1990 to 2001, which was the last good count, they more than doubled, from 14 million to 29 million. Their proportion of the population grew from 8 percent to more than 14 percent. That means there are more than twice as many people who claim no religion as there are participating evangelicals who subscribe to beliefs that have made the religious right powerful. Wicker, 53 (citing “The American Religious Identification Survey) ↩
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