I have to say that I've had enough of the "Enough already" diaries. At this point, they're just as tiresome as the BREAKING tag, or the reminders not to be such pottymouths. DailyKos should be a site for creating a community and part of that is getting to know each other.
And I appreciate that we are all deeply motivated people here for a variety of reasons, some of them spiritual, some of them social, and if you're like me, you're here because you feel compelled to tap into a collective sense that deeply troubling events are shaking our worlds, and that together we can turn the tide. We need to be familiar with each other, to be free to share ourselves, in our obscenity, our profanity, our humor and our abstractness.
That said, I would also like to say that I am completely freaking bored with the continuing "Why I am the religion I am" series.
Did anyone else here go to Catholic high school? Were you ever trapped on a three day retreat with a guy who kept telling you about the loving community of the church, while next to you sat a girl in Gucci loafers that cost more than your car? That same girl who cheated her way into Harvard, and who is the apple of the faculty eye? Yes, we are all loved as Children of the Lord, but some of us are more loved than others. I've endured more platitudes about sharing and sacrifice at this sort of compulsory function than I care to even remember. Seriously, I think that if faith in this kind of community is something that remains available to you, then great. And seriously, when I'm on the mood to learn more, I will click on your diary. But why do diaries about personal faith take up so much space on the reccommended diary list? Especially when most of what people have to say on matters of theology are pretty much on the level of highschool retreat platitude?
And you, atheists, I've known you well, and you are just as boring as the evangelists I've known. In fact, you're worse, because you've got such a frickin chip on your shoulder, obeying some urge to explain yourself to people. Let me tell you, I've never asked anyone "Why Lutheranism?" or "How those Presbyterians treating you?" And funnily enough, most Lutherans or Presbyterians have never felt the urge to explain themselves to me or seek my approval (although I've noticed that Southern Baptists are generally attention/ approval hungry). I promise you, the day that the urge hits to find out more, I will ask how your intellectual treatise are treating you. Until then, can we talk about something besides you?
And finally, you comment poster number 853-- did you really have something to add that posters 1- 852 didn't say? Some of us don't have very powerful computers, so it is impossible to open a diary with more than 300 comments. Adding more comments and reccommends to an already glutted diary just insures that a spot in the rec list is taken up by what is essentially an unreadable discourse for many of us out in internets land.
So finally, to conclude. This is not an "Enough already" diary. I'm not the boss of you and I don't want to be. Write whatever you want.
I just figure that if everyone else is getting their shits and giggles by boring the pants off of people like me, and posturing as moral clarions and righteous intellects, then maybe I should get into the act and make a general call for getting over ourselves.
I will now recede into the background lurkery from whence I oozed, praying mightily that no one actually reads this. Especially not my boyfriend or anyone else who can tell who I am.