Today... Having lunch. Down at the end of the lunch counter, two Brother John Birch Antioch Baptist Church guys (and one really had green teeth)...
Were talking about gays (they are wolves in sheep's clothing), talking about health care (health care reform is socialism), etc etc etc.
I realized that I had to get up and go to another table when my hands started shaking and I wanted to really, really get up and say something stupid.
I'm usually pretty stable, but things like this... What really bothers me is that I'm beginning to think of people like this as untermensch. That's not me. Wel, it is. It's a part of me, I'm sure it is a part of all of us, but it is WRONG. I don't want to be angry. I don't want to think of these people as, "The Other".
I'm not a pacifist. I'm not a "good" Christian. And like Aunty Em, I want to tell people like this things that would not reflect well on my soul. But I'm holding back.
The wingers are really beginning to piss me off. Ruined a perfectly good lunch.
"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." Matthew 5:10 - Jesus