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Excellent! As a relatively regular churchgoer, I found this absolutely hysterical! Have you read Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation”? If not, and you’d be interested, let me know. Looking forward to seeing more!
I wonder why this makes you guys laugh. From where I sit, it looks like a schematic depiction of the grim and terrible pattern of in-group/out-group tribal violence that has plagued humanity throughout our history. I am compelled to interpret this piece as poignant rather than funny. This kind of violence and hatred happens all the time, and the issues at stake in the conflicts are often just as arbitrary.
People argue over semantics all the time. It is their inability to step back and realize that it’s all about seeing things from the other person’s angle which makes us wonder whether to laugh or cry…the arbitrary nature of the argument is exactly what makes it both funny and tragic.
I choose to laugh because the alternative invites despair instead of resolution.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I like this very much. Simple and well-done. I look forward to more. :)
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
This one made me giggle. Keep it up!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I really like these. So far, though, every one of them has made me sad.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Also, I’ve never seen this fancy comment system anywhere before, and I quite like it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 am
Excellent! As a relatively regular churchgoer, I found this absolutely hysterical! Have you read Greg Boyd’s “The Myth of a Christian Nation”? If not, and you’d be interested, let me know. Looking forward to seeing more!
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
I am using wordpress with two comment-related plugins:
http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/wp-ajax-edit-comments/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/live-comment-preview/
I am also using some anti-spam plugins to (hopefully) keep things clean.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I wonder why this makes you guys laugh. From where I sit, it looks like a schematic depiction of the grim and terrible pattern of in-group/out-group tribal violence that has plagued humanity throughout our history. I am compelled to interpret this piece as poignant rather than funny. This kind of violence and hatred happens all the time, and the issues at stake in the conflicts are often just as arbitrary.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
See, this is *exactly* the sort of discussion that I wished to occur.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
People argue over semantics all the time. It is their inability to step back and realize that it’s all about seeing things from the other person’s angle which makes us wonder whether to laugh or cry…the arbitrary nature of the argument is exactly what makes it both funny and tragic.
I choose to laugh because the alternative invites despair instead of resolution.