Sent last night to my Stranger email, from one “Garret Lonegrin”:

Ha ha ha, it was bad enough learning that “super-nigger” was elected prezzy, but you guys found out what kind of allies you had thanks to Prop 8, huh? All your little marxist jiggerboos come out to the pols to vote for Osama bin Nigger, and they ALSO voted down faggot weddings! Ha ha ha at least ONE thing went right election night, and you fucking queers are stuck with a whack-o coalition and some of the niggs want to KILL you.

Conservatism will be back. You’ll see. And when it does and Sarah runs STRONG in 2012, we wil deal with both of you. Islam, faggots, terrorists, niggers- get a job, get a life, or GET IN THE OVENS!!!!!!

You want to fuck with Christians and GOD, motherfuckers??? Payback is a BITCH and it starts with your little pals the monkeys. Ha ha ha!!!!!

Sucky downside to election triumph: now the crazy bigots get to feel like underdogs.

Still: totally worth it.

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67 replies on “Sigh.”

  1. Many progressives considered leaving the US in the past 8 years to any other rich, progressive foreign nation.

    At first, I wondered where people like Garrett might consider moving, but there’s no backwards rich nations for them to move to.

    But why don’t they just follow Palin back to Alaska? It’s far enough away that we could ignore them. They obviously are fond of the governor. There’s plenty of drilling for them. Plus, they can keep an eye on Russia for us.

  3. @49

    From one atheist to (I presume) another: knock it off. You’re making us sound like jerks–resentful, ungracious, gross-generalization-making, history-simplifying, fake-ass-line-in-the-sand-drawing jerks. We need as many people in the progressive camp as possible; dismissively insulting a huge and heterogeneous chunk of the population ain’t helping.

  4. @53:

    That’s awesome that you responded to a post with the words “they don’t call for me to be silenced” with “knock it off”.

  9. All churches, Christians, etc. are exactly alike. There are no differences or disagreements between them whatsoever. When any one Christian does something wrong, all Christians are equally responsible for it.

  10. All churches have equal tendencies to harden in their dogma, enforce conformity, and abuse power–to a greater extent than most, as they hold the keys to the “afterlife”. Baby churches may be cute, but I have seen them as adults. Sorry.

  12. Actually, the joke’s on him. It’s always been on people like him. Stupid people buy the crap, and fight the wars and clean up after the rich, and never even know that they’ve been used. They just hate – with that special hate of the stupid, who dimly realize they are not in control of their lives, but have no reason why.

    If he’s young enough, it will be fun to see him slide into middle-age and beyond, knowing that whites are no longer the majority in this country. What will he think of “the ovens” then?

    But the best joke will be at the end, when he breathes his last breath and he vanishes. No soul to save, no God to take him to the promised land. Nothing. Just another dead animal on the cosmic roadside. His whole life will have been a sick joke in an indifferent universe.

  14. Hi interest troll–sorry for the harsh tone of my earlier comment; if it’s any defense, I was caffeinated to the eyeballs, which makes me cranky (and apparently also wrecks my senses of humor and proportion.)

    What I was trying to get at was this: turning a political discussion into an ideological referendum on religion almost always backfires. It becomes a distraction; instead of talking about racism or gay rights or economic inequality or whatever, we end up talking about the Inquisition. Instead of talking about what we ought to do, we talk about Who Is Right.

    I think you can see this derailing tendency at work in your comments. At the top of the thread, you make a very reasonable point about not being tricked by our opposition to Prop 8 into making common cause with racists; by the end, you’re talking about the universal characteristics of “all churches” anywhere ever. (It’s probably obvious that in my earlier comment I was thinking more about Prop 8 than about the idiotic e-mail that started this discussion.)

    Anyway, sorry for being a prick. Carry on.

  15. @ChristianLeft: Calm down. Seriously. Listen, as one Christian liberal to another.

    Reread the original letter from Garrett L that started this thread. I smell fear and guarantee that tomorrow morning, the first Sunday after Obama’s victory, evangelicals will gather in their churches in shithole trailer parks across the country to lick their wounds, blame the “liberal media” and hatch delusional plots of revenge, i.e. Sarah Palin in 2012. They know that their days of dominating the country’s political discourse are coming to an end.

    Jerry Falwell is dead, D. James Kennedy is dead, Focus on the Family is a joke, and Pat Robertson is about 153 years old. Remember the original premise of the religious right: if Americans elect “godly” leaders, all problems will be solved because God will bless the country with peace and prosperity. Well, eight years after one of their own made it to the White House, that hasn’t happened. We are at war in two countries and the economy is in the toilet. And last Tuesday voters said they had enough. I see the blue landslide not only as a repudiation of Bush’s policies, but of right wing dogma in general, religion and all. The idiotic beliefs of the religious right have been measured and found wanting. Ten years ago few people other than evangelicals and ex-evangelicals, for example, had ever heard of the Rapture. I remember when one of my coworkers, a speech pathologist, asked me about it when her patient had told her about those silly Left Behind books. She was amazed when I told her that we sang songs about the Rapture in my high school youth group in the 70s and saw films such as A Thief In The Night. She was even more amazed when I told her that Rapture theology goes back even further, to the 19th century. Fast forward to today, when Betty Bowers (and imitators) is a popular fixture in any bookstore’s humor section. (I have literally fallen off pieces of furniture laughing at this parody.) Evangelicals beseeched God for years that their message would be known far and wide among the heathen. Note to evangelicals: Be careful what you pray for. The rest of us have seen and examined your ideas and the handwriting is on the wall.

    Given the high visibility in the last three decades of the religious right, and as @35 points out, the low profile of religious progressives (which in some ways is intentional–I wrote papers about this in seminary, but I will spare you the details), one can hardly blame the nonreligious for their stereotypes. But there is hope. I predict Barack Obama will unite the country behind a progressive agenda in a way unseen since Roosevelt’s New Deal. Will the evangelical right oppose it? Of course they will, but few will be listening. Their day is over. They will be the ones left behind as the rest of us, including religious progressives, move forward.

    So what can religious progressives do? Keep on doing what you are doing. You belong to a progressive, gay friendly church? Good for you, so do I. Keep helping the less fortunate, keep welcoming all to your door, keep fighting for good causes. With the imminent demise of the religious right, perhaps nonreligious progressives will begin to trust us again and welcome us to the table.

  17. I wish these rednecks wouldn’t clutch to God like he was their coach. If you are so heavy with God, then pay attention to what is written in the BIBLE and leave the judgment up to Him.

    You’re in for some shitty eternal hellfire for thinking you get a free pass to heaven because you are a republican, dumbass.

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