This is quite the spectacle. Someone signing in as "RickyDawkins" on Netscape.com 's religion channel posted a link to PZ Myers' "Good ol' Christian tolerance" post from the other day that addressed the noisy protest by several Christians of the opening of Senate proceedings with a Hindu prayer.
"Ricky," Brahma bless him, touched off a stereotypical but amusing turdstorm. When you have responses piling up at a rate of 20 to 25 per hour and usernames like "NGRS SUK," "s-t-f-u," and "bubba2" and people with Ann Coulter's sneering visage in their avatars, it's not hard to predict the general tenor of the discussion and the level of discourse: ample ALL CAPS ENTRIES, much flaming in pidgin dialects, dozens of people apparently in possession of alternate versions of the U.S. Constitution, and so forth.
A sampling:
"I am a Christian. It's because of these people that gives Christianity a bad name. Unlike Musluims who do not speak out about things like this. I do! People like this makes me sick."
That poster has Cartman from South Park is his avatar. You don't have to read the posts in order, by the way, as the "conversation" seems to lack, well, any semblance of logical flow.
I think it's good to meditate over this sort of thing every Sunday morning before moving on to Revere's "Freethinker Sunday Sermonette."
