Boorite, the South was the place that I stopped in a fairly suburban gas station/stationary store and listened to a fat Southern women talk about how Homosexuals are Satan's children, Sodom and Gomorrah will be revisited because of them, etc. She then went on to explain that no one could tell her (and I am seriously giving her credit with my recanting, because her vernacular was a lot cruder) that she was descended from no filthy monkey and that 'ee-voh-loo-shun' is bullshit. She augmented her point by saying humans don't have no thumbs on their feet and we're not hairy like them so how did we come from them.

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OK, Mikey. (Not sure what point of mine this is supposed to address.)

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I mean my whole point was that the South as I know it has been economically and culturally impoverished over a long period of time, i.e., has served as the North's plantation, and that this gives rise to religious fundamentalism.

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Also, you are a filthy monkey.

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In regards to ignorant people like her, they are EVERYWHERE, not just in the South. Many people down here in the great land I call home may speak with a southern drawl, which adds to the humor. But ignorance is ignorance, and it isn't confined to Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, etc.

I'm from Memphis. I can't tell you how many people online would make jokes about that (usually typing in some kind of broken "accent"). However, unless you find someone with a DISTINCT drawl down here, it's hard to tell WHERE they are from. Some people think I'm from up north, even though I was born in Arkansas, live in Tennessee, and was raised by a Mississippi mother and Australian step-father. HE was the only one with the accent.

Anyway, I know this is mostly about the "Bible Belt" thing, but I wanted to hit on the comment about the fat, stupid woman. I hate them too.

And around Memphis it's called the "Baptist Belt". There are two enormous Baptist churches just on the outskirts of Memphis. One is often referred to as "Six Flags over Jesus."

I'm not saying everyone down there is like that -- far from it. But, there is a "Bible Belt" and the question is... why?

You could ask the opposite question (Why does the Northeast attract tweedy liberals?) but since I'm from the Northeast, I think that questioning the abnormalities of the South is far more informative.

Up here, you would never have people protesting to keep a Ten Commandments monument in the state courthouse -- at least not in large numbers. We'd never elect someone who would do that (not that we elect our judges) because as a population we generally get it -- the separation of Church and State, that is.

So why is the South different?

But does the country really *get it*?

What do you swear on when you're put on the witness stand? It's not Barrons Weekly.

What's on our money? It's not "We Want Money".

If we have an Athiest come into the whitehouse somehow, he's not going to get to do shit, because the first thing he's gotta do is swear in. And it's not a cookbook he's putting his hand on.

Face it: as much as you disagree with it, and as much as I don't give a flying fuck about it, God, the bible, and religion are deeply intertwined in this country. Presenting the ten commandments is a throwback to where our laws came from in the first place.

I'm no bible-thumping loon, but I just have to ask what the big deal is about all of this. Where is the danger in continuing tradition? What is the harm in a display of pride for your religion?

We gonna ban crosses next? Then maybe turbans, burkhas, yamulkas and other signs of religious evil in the world? How about national "holidays"? "Holiday", hrm, I believe that feathers out to "Holy Day". But the government recognizes them. You want Christmas, Easter, and other religious holidays banned, because it's not seperate between chuch and state?

We've all heard this stuff a million times, but I've personally yet to hear a single reason that sounded like it made sense to me. Just let the Christians have their crosses and commandments. I'll have my beer and chips.

And when the President comes out and says "okay all you heathenous bastards, it's INQUISITION time", wearing a red robe and an evil smirk, then you can damn well bet I'm gonna be the first to put on a cross, say "oh THANK you Jesus!" then run away to another country. But until that time, I can tolerate intolerance such as the type coming from the Christian right. Does it annoy me? A bit. Would I rather we not focus on stupid religious quarrels? Fuck yeah. Do I think we'll ever stop bitching back and forth about it? Yeah, sure. About the same time Elvis comes back down from an alien space ship carrying Amelia Airhart's unconscious body, then walks up to shake the president's hand, the free one, you know, the one not holding a joint.

You don't believe in God? Go you. See if I give a shit. See if anyone gives a shit when you don't scream it at the top of your lungs.

Oh yeah. Homosexuals are people. Nothing more, nothing less. Both sides of the argument need to sit down and shut up about it. It's not a big fucking deal. The bible doesn't say shit about it.

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Don't nothin beat the smell of hot salty rawhide, DX, and you know it.

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Remember Nixon? The GOP is still at it.

100 days and 5 grand for manslaughter? There are potheads serving tougher sentences.

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DX, I thought you guys were supposed to have a separation between Church and State?

Something just occurred to me:

If Howard Dean gets elected, will Edvard Munch paint the Presidential Portrait?

Enquiring minds want to know.

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Just a gamut-spanning anecdote, that's all. And I am not a monkey. I'm a wombat.

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Filthy wombat.

Dean scream with a beat.

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It's funny how MikeyG ran into someone portraying every single Southern stereotype all at once in a gas station. Where did this happen? Your imagination?

Spankling earlier you called students documenting a liberal bias in professors whiners, but I doubt you would be doing the same if it was liberal students documenting how they are being excluded by porfessors demonstrating a conservative bias in their teachings.

Also I heard my fair share of "whining" by liberal professors saying that we (students, and therefore liberals) should demand a government-mandated equal-time liberal radio show because there is no counterpart to Rush Limbaugh. In a free market. Talk about whining. Anyway, I thought there was such a radio station: it's called NPR.

If these are public schools the schools have a right to exercise their concerns. You wouldn't take that right from them if the students were arguing that they were being indoctrinated with Biblical teachings and anti-abortion propaganda, would you? Would they be whining then? "Oh, such whiners. Can't take a little Jesus (even though everyone knows he's the Lord and Savior) God what babies, get over it."

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YEEEAAAAGGGHHH!

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That's what was so amazing about it. It was damn near cartoonish. Life is stranger than fiction, MaaK. You of all people should know. I mean, they let you live, didn't they?

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Could be worse. Could have been a cockfight.

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Oh, kaufman, I get into those all the time.

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It's funny how MikeyG ran into someone portraying every single Southern stereotype all at once in a gas station. Where did this happen? Your imagination?

Spankling earlier you called students documenting a liberal bias in professors whiners, but I doubt you would be doing the same if it was liberal students documenting how they are being excluded by porfessors demonstrating a conservative bias in their teachings.

Also I heard my fair share of "whining" by liberal professors saying that we (students, and therefore liberals) should demand a government-mandated equal-time liberal radio show because there is no counterpart to blah blah blah

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Yes, you are right, the professor were most certainly whining.

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E-voting time has not come

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Taxpayer money is being spent to convert kids to Christianity

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Dead link. More diversionary tactics from the far left.

Typical.

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Dead link. More diversionary tactics from the far left.

Typical.

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You could cut the tension with a Honda Civic.

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