They Really Do Exist

While I was searching the web for this image: I found this story of a UNIX developer wearing this on a polo shirt being confronted and kicked out by the God-fearing. Some of my fellow liberal progressives recently denied on LJ that we have a problem with this kind of conservative in America. I've never lived in Texas, but I grew up with the people in this story. I can introduce you to some of them at my parents' church here in town. Decades ago I attended a private Christian grade school in Owosso, Michigan run by religious zealots who were stupid enough to get my classmates in trouble for drawing the solar system. They called the student body together and showed the drawing, asking if it was a sun god and challenging us to get right with the Lord. One lady confiscated a rubber stamp from a cereal box because if you twisted the triangle on top lid so that it was upside-down to the triangle on the bottom lid, you got what she thought was a pentagram. This was wrong on so many levels, that I just have to say "never mind."

Comments

ext_528962 on Feb. 1, 2005 1:45 PM

It's so sad that backwards paranoid thinking still exists.....It makes you embarrassed about humanity.

ext_86387 on Feb. 2, 2005 5:35 AM

I ... *jaw works impotently* ... no words.

ext_21159 on Feb. 2, 2005 5:43 PM

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; WEB casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; ASV Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ; BBE overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ; DBY Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; KJV Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; WBS For we overthrow arrogant 'reckonings,' and every stronghold that towers high in defiance of the knowledge of God, and we carry off every thought as if into slavery--into subjection to Christ; WEY reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ, YLT