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Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign

During my brief tenure as blogmaster for a Democratic presidential contender, I experienced the right-wing smear machine firsthand

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  • Friday, February 16, 2007 11:31 AM

    okay, chloe, what *IS* the core belief you yammer about ? ? ?

    nothing like a convert to explain to the terminally stoopid liberals (*ptui*) what they are 'missing' about xtianity...

    (oh no, mommy the bad agnostic/atheist insulted us by spelling it with an 'X', wah wah wah... how can we go on... *snort*

    of course, as a 'heathen', *I'M* supposed to take the endlessly insulting putdowns and judgmental crap from xtians -you know, graciously informing me for my own eternal salvation- that i'm going to hell in a handbasket, blah blah blah shut the fuck up, you arrogant jerks... )

    okay, cloying chloe, insert here: ________ the 'core' portion of xtian 'faith' that all us stoopidheads are not 'getting'... (or will it take -oh, i don't know- a whole book to 'splain ? ? ? )

    *IF* you get to some idiotic 'leap of faith' bullshit (which ALL religions ultimately depend on), then you can get back on your knees and pray -ever so fervently- for the mortal soul of this pagan; 'cause i ain't buyin' *YOUR* xtian brand of bullshit any more than *ANY* other brandname of religious bullshit...

    *just* like your moronic comments about how all your churchgoers are dem'rats... whoopdeedoo!!! what a joke: cloistered, self-identifying pwogwessive xtians who define out-of-existence all the 'bad' xtians as not *real* xtians... maybe *YOU* can determine that fundie xtians are not 'real' xtians, BUT that AIN'T what happens in the world i live in...

    'mainstream', 'real' xtians of your -purportedly- pwogwessive persuasion DO NOT stand up and repudiate fundie xtians to ANY NOTICEABLE extent in the mainstream media (or even the alternative media, for that matter); the fundie/reichwing xtians ARE the representatives for xtianity that we ACTUALLY see/hear on the tee vee, inertnets, etc...

    that's a fact, jack... you can bemoan the media for NOT doing a good job in separating out the 10 zillion factions of xtianity, which ones are 'legitimate', and which ones are whacked out, but i doubt that there is any practical way of doing so that would satisfy you or any other spinoff of xtianity...

    (just as islam is tarred with the broadbrush of fundie muslims extremists when 90%+ are just regular sheeple tryin' to believe their particular brand of religious bullshit; so 'good' xtians are tarred by the broadbrush strokes of crazy fundie xtians who DOMINATE the public discourse...)

    do i have to refrain from mocking people who believe in the easter bunny, SIMPLY because they DO believe in such a legend (however benign) ? ? ?

    may i make sarcastic remarks on the intellectual capability of flatearthers, or is that, like, you know, so-o-o-o insensitive to their 'beliefs' ? ? ?

    shall i refrain from justifiable jibes at those who insist the moon landings were faked, because those nutjobs really, *really* believe it to be the case ? ? ?

    talk about moral relativism...

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