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Sun May-20-07 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
| 46. The use of religion to justify some personal bigotry... |
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Example from yesterday: At my new (dead-end) job, a co-worker, a manager, and I got into a 'discussion', wherein the manager tried to explain why some people (herself included) might feel 'religiously justified' to believe that "race mixing" is (biblically) wrong.
The co-worker (who's bi-racial, and the only non-white working there) was livid that such a position could even be defensible, and asked more than once what she, as someone who "wasn't JUST white or black" was supposed to do? Though i tried to give examples to contradict the manager's 'bible b.s.', by reminding her that by those standards, SLAVERY was still o.k., and that she should be at home and subservient to her husband, etc..., in a few minutes i found myself getting too angry to even communicate, and had to just leave the situation (and find some things to re-arrange in the cooler).  I'm sure that this manager will eventually make the same comment about all of the queers on her crew (there are more than a few of us)... I'm just waiting...  |
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| -What's something that makes you so furious you can't rationally discuss it? | Heaven and Earth | May-18-07 11:57 PM | #0 |
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Pretty much anything Fred Phelps or his ilk says/does. |
Elrond Hubbard | May-18-07 11:59 PM | #1 |
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Damn, you beat me to it! |
krispos42 | May-19-07 12:27 AM | #7 |
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Yeah. |
terrya | May-19-07 01:50 PM | #30 |
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i can't discuss it |
Southpawkicker | May-19-07 12:00 AM | #2 |
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Deliberate and wanton damage to the defenseless |
chknltl | May-19-07 12:02 AM | #3 |
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Sorry! |
Heaven and Earth | May-19-07 12:03 AM | #4 |
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Don't be...my dog thanks you! |
chknltl | May-19-07 12:23 AM | #5 |
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Right now, the housing issue in this province |
u4ic | May-19-07 12:25 AM | #6 |
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abuse and exploitation of the elderly |
Roon | May-19-07 12:35 AM | #8 |
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Wow, didn't know he was caught. |
Starbucks Anarchist | May-19-07 12:40 AM | #9 |
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Assertions of moral superiority |
Oeditpus Rex | May-19-07 12:44 AM | #10 |
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baseball free-agency |
Blue-Jay | May-19-07 12:47 AM | #11 |
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My mother once caught me burning some Hemingway books after I was done having to read them |
DS1 | May-19-07 12:51 AM | #12 |
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George W. Bush's pResidency..... |
Ghost in the Machine | May-19-07 01:02 AM | #13 |
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That would be mine, too, Ghost |
GenDem | May-19-07 07:18 AM | #19 |
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Yeah, 'nuff said. |
Brigid | May-19-07 01:02 PM | #27 |
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discussing church/state separation with a Theocrat... |
adsosletter | May-19-07 02:07 AM | #14 |
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Morons defending pitbulls. |
zonkers | May-19-07 03:39 AM | #15 |
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....... I can rationally discuss things when I am freaking mad. |
Random_Australian | May-19-07 04:35 AM | #16 |
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You and me both! |
cobalt1999 | May-19-07 10:36 AM | #23 |
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Aye, or some fool telling me that I'm "not concerned with the truth" |
Random_Australian | May-20-07 04:52 AM | #42 |
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NBA Commissioner David Stern's handling of |
usaftmo | May-19-07 05:19 AM | #17 |
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Handicap Scooters |
rug | May-19-07 06:30 AM | #18 |
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Almost every topic in GD right now............ |
CrownPrinceBandar | May-19-07 07:27 AM | #20 |
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emotional abuse of children. nt |
Drum | May-19-07 10:13 AM | #21 |
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on a personal level |
wildhorses | May-19-07 10:17 AM | #22 |
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Hunting. And people who don't neuter and control their animals. |
femmocrat | May-19-07 12:27 PM | #24 |
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Evolution deniers and creationists... |
Reverend_Smitty | May-19-07 12:34 PM | #25 |
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Creationism, ID, anti-science |
alarimer | May-19-07 12:40 PM | #26 |
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People who call my mom names. |
tofunut | May-19-07 01:37 PM | #28 |
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Fundamentalist religion. |
WritingIsMyReligion | May-19-07 01:38 PM | #29 |
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Nothing. |
Evoman | May-19-07 04:16 PM | #31 |
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Fox News ......n/t |
Joey Liberal | May-19-07 05:05 PM | #32 |
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ooh I have one now |
idgiehkt | May-19-07 05:09 PM | #33 |
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I am with you 100% |
PeaceNikki | May-19-07 05:12 PM | #34 |
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apathy toward the hard problems and lazer like focus on the shit that doesn't matter |
GloriaSmith | May-19-07 05:16 PM | #35 |
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Morons who call people who defend pit bulls morons. |
PeaceNikki | May-19-07 05:17 PM | #36 |
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I obsess on this current most foul administration... |
Joe Fields | May-19-07 05:26 PM | #37 |
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The 2000 election |
last_texas_dem | May-19-07 05:53 PM | #38 |
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Anything with a Fundamentalist |
Taverner | May-19-07 06:05 PM | #39 |
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Any intimation that I'd be in better moral shape |
crim son | May-19-07 07:15 PM | #40 |
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pretty much anything the rw says that seems absurd |
tigereye | May-19-07 07:18 PM | #41 |
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The current president |
OhioBlues | May-20-07 05:17 AM | #43 |
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I promise not to bring it up |
billyskank | May-20-07 05:17 AM | #44 |
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Thank you, we can talk about anything else you like. |
OhioBlues | May-20-07 05:19 AM | #45 |
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The use of religion to justify some personal bigotry... |
ThinkBlue1966 | May-20-07 05:47 AM | #46 |
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