Yes, I thought that it would be appropriate to create pet names for those who are either afraid of Christians or social conservatives. Why not adopt “Libby” or “Randy” for the Libertarians/Randians who are in a snit about Republicans and Christians?
Remember the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip? A true work of genius. Some of my favorite story lines involved the monsters that inhabited Calvin’s closet and lived under his bed.
When Libbies and Randies go into their bedrooms they always check for the Fundy police, knowing that The Christian Coalition stays awake at night working on plans to arrest them once it has control of the government. Oh, it does? Never mind.
Or when Libbys and Randys discuss the freedom and dignity (even the euphoria) that takes over when a person is dying of thirst. Are they implying that that is exactly how they would wish to die should they become too sick? They object to the intrusion of government into this “intensely private family affair.” Are they conveniently forgetting that Judge Greer is part of the government? That he ordered Terri’s life should be ended, and that armed agents of the government – in the form of police – stood guard to insure that private individuals did not interfere with this government ordered death?
In this blog, Sydney Carton (scroll down) alludes to the fact that there is both a degree of contempt for people of faith as well as a feigned or actual irrational fear of Christians.
Where this derives, I don’t know, but its eruption in the public sphere is a recent phenomenon. And frankly, as a Christian, it scares me. And my fear is somewhat more rational, being born in occupied Europe during World War II, I have studied the history of religious and ethnic bigotry with more than a casual interest. Before it became a reality, the Holocaust was an idea.
In the beginning, was the word.
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