Reply #61: I've been there. (Missouri ) ala Ashcroft [View All]

[gordianot]

It makes my head hurt. Don't say anything or you might be healed.

:puke:

I will be frank about it, if these people are going to heaven count me out. I'll go with Will Rodgers who wanted to go where the dogs go. Harry Truman and Mark Twain had similar opinions.

There is no understanding involved. They reject reality and rational thought. They read the Bible and quote verse(often out of context). From what I read in the Bible, I suspect Jesus would have a hard time with their conduct if he were to walk in their churches in the flesh. Tell one of them that and you might get flayed or shot. Also be prepared for their sales message. Many are experts trained in delivering a convincing pitch after sizing you up. They really are good at playing on peoples fears. Just the ticket for developing Fascism.

A few years ago my brother got a Federal Firearms license and sold guns to supplement his income. He gathered several cases of AK-47's and sold them on order to a local church. He also gathered a lot of PVC pipe and cosmoline so they could store them for burial. I understand this is not terribly uncommon.

One more story. My wife has had several conversations with educators who have had contact with a seemingly harmless fundamentalist sect in Southwest Missouri. They operate much like other Pentacostals. They have a practice enouraged by this sect where the father has sex (first time) with his daughter. You tell me these people are harmless.

I recommend the works of Robert Heinlein. He was from Missouri and grew up around this drivel. I met him in the late 1960's. He wrote a series of science fiction short stories about a fundamentalist religious theocracy in America. He told me as a teenager this would happen for real someday. Guess what?

Walk into these places at your discretion. You have my story, be warned you may not know what you are getting into.