Deer Hunting with Jesus...

Let me begin by speculating that Jesus would be pretty good with a bolt-action, 30.06 with a couple of rounds to go out and hunt dinner. That said, this is an excellent site and has a real defeatist tinge to it.  That tinge is probably a gray-green camouflage with some neon highlights, but what the fuck. This is a bit from one of the comments that is incredibly on target -- we get drooling loonies writing to us, Joe gets people who actually think. We need more comments from the non-drooling loonie portion of our readership...anyway, this is what happens when blog readers start responding.

"My compliments to you on your writing style, and on your clarity of thought. We happen to be about the same age, but I grew up in Wisconsin, mostly Norwegian-German, but with, indeed, a small dose of Scots Irish, so our windows on reality do have different transmission characteristics. I am, as it happens, pretty much a suburban, lower middle class liberal intellectual puke, but I did spend a bit under four years in the USAF, where -- to my amazement -- I discovered that there were other people in America. So, while I do not have a serious familial acquaintance with the Christian jihad, I am uncomfortably aware that it exists, and is probably still growing. To me, it sometimes seems like the irresistible allure of religious certainty is eventually going to disprove evolution by reversing it. We appear to have a severe predisposition to belief in religious absolutes, even as many argue that we have a hardwired prediliction towards language. I suppose (I am not a evolutionary biologist) that the existence of the capacity for faith was selectively useful in our prehistory, when an objective assessment of our chances of surviving predators, disease, famine, and disaster would have been sort of a downer. That is, "Who cares how bad it looks, fuck anyhow" probably led to more offspring."

Which would inevitably lead to more peasants able to toss their groats into the collection plate.

Comments

[Frederick]

We need more comments from the non-drooling loonie portion of our readership...

Hey! I represent that remark!

[Comandante Agi]

Well, as long as the majority of our hits come from google searches on "boobs" and "anal" we will continue to be visited by the drooling loonie demographic.