12.06.04
Posted in culture at 10:24 pm by
This unholy thing has really started to get annoying. So have the vigilantes that are dying to make me look like an idiot. Clearly, they don’t read much of my writing. I do a fine job on my own of making myself look like an idiot.
The thing is when you make yourself look like an idiot, you look less like an idiot than when you try to make others look like idiots. This for example is what Ransom at The Crusty Curmudgeon is saying about badchristian.com:
Why does everybody want a bad reputation?
You’re so bad, you’ll be a big sensation.
- Fleming and John
Read this post from Proverbial Wife, which I just read in the Christian Carnival.
Now, read this overweening response to one of Marla’s offhand remarks. Today’s meditation: Why are there so many poseurs who feel an overwhelming need to remind us all how much of a badass they are? And why are there so many people happy to affirm them? (”You done told her good, Cletus. That’ll larn her, haw haw haw.”)
(No trackbacks. Deal with that, buddy.)
What’s with that? I assure you I may be many things, but a redneck? That’s crossing a line. I have yet to develop an official blog strategy as to naysayers. Perhaps ignorance is best. Perhaps. Maybe this is one of those situations where what is best isn’t what’s just.
The whole ordeal just makes me feel two things, one, that I don’t want to blog for a while, and two, that it’s not just me that makes me an evangelical expatriate, and people wonder why I don’t like to go to church even though I’m a Christian…it’s not God I don’t like, it’s the assholes that follow her.
Trust me, Mr. Ransom, I don’t think of myself as a badass. That’s not a label many would self-apply where I come from.
Oh, and one other thing. What the hell is up with everyone getting pissy about tracking back? To quote one of the greates films of all time:
Does no one give a shit about the rules…this is a league game Smokey.
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Posted in culture at 10:24 pm by
This unholy thing has really started to get annoying. So have the vigilantes that are dying to make me look like an idiot. Clearly, they don’t read much of my writing. I do a fine job on my own of making myself look like an idiot.
The thing is when you make yourself look like an idiot, you look less like an idiot than when you try to make others look like idiots. This for example is what Ransom at The Crusty Curmudgeon is saying about badchristian.com:
Why does everybody want a bad reputation?
You’re so bad, you’ll be a big sensation.
- Fleming and John
Read this post from Proverbial Wife, which I just read in the Christian Carnival.
Now, read this overweening response to one of Marla’s offhand remarks. Today’s meditation: Why are there so many poseurs who feel an overwhelming need to remind us all how much of a badass they are? And why are there so many people happy to affirm them? (”You done told her good, Cletus. That’ll larn her, haw haw haw.”)
(No trackbacks. Deal with that, buddy.)
What’s with that? I assure you I may be many things, but a redneck? That’s crossing a line. I have yet to develop an official blog strategy as to naysayers. Perhaps ignorance is best. Perhaps. Maybe this is one of those situations where what is best isn’t what’s just.
The whole ordeal just makes me feel two things, one, that I don’t want to blog for a while, and two, that it’s not just me that makes me an evangelical expatriate, and people wonder why I don’t like to go to church even though I’m a Christian…it’s not God I don’t like, it’s the assholes that follow her.
Trust me, Mr. Ransom, I don’t think of myself as a badass. That’s not a label many would self-apply where I come from.
Oh, and one other thing. What the hell is up with everyone getting pissy about tracking back? To quote one of the greates films of all time:
Does no one give a shit about the rules…this is a league game Smokey.
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Ben said,
December 6, 2004 at 11:57 pm
From one expatriate to another, I think you’re fantastic dude. Keep up the good work comrade… I’m proud to share your God. She rocks.
Brandon said,
December 7, 2004 at 12:31 am
Thanks, Ben. I guess we all need a little encouragement from time to time. You keep the faith, too. Even though with a work environment like yours, it’s bound to be tough.
Thanks.
greg said,
December 7, 2004 at 12:42 am
Brandon,
He’s reading Ann Coulter. I was going to say something else about him, but that all you really need to know.
bigbrother0074 said,
December 7, 2004 at 5:30 am
big lebowski?
Just Pat said,
December 7, 2004 at 6:19 am
Your title: “I am not an animal!!!”
Brandon, you only have yourself and God to answer to on this one. You’ve become a topic of discussion in other venues, which is, really, pretty cool. You write things that stir people up. Of course you’re going to get this kind of backlash. And, of course, you’ll get people who are more than happy to affirm you.
James said,
December 7, 2004 at 7:34 am
At least he quoted Fleming&John. Always nice to have a reminder to pull out their records…
Brandon said,
December 7, 2004 at 9:03 am
I understand your point, Pat. And I agree, that is pretty cool. However, the message that I try to send, and explain here is a message that folks are systematically making Christianity less appealing by outcasting those who don’t fit their mold. If whoever wrote that post had read mine about why this site is named the way it is, he’d have realized that I’m not the one calling myself a bad christian. It’s people like him that are.
But, I do want to say, Pat, that I that you’re right. Perhaps, stirring people up is the goal. If so, well, I guess I’ve arrived.
jpe said,
December 7, 2004 at 10:06 am
He’s reading Ann Coulter. I was going to say something else about him, but that all you really need to know.
Bah! Beat me to the punch.
From one expatriate to another, I think you’re fantastic dude. Keep up the good work comrade…I’m proud to share your God. She rocks.
Bah! again. Well, except for the ’she’ bit. Hippie. (heh. I can’t resist calling people hippies. It’s in my blood)
Mainsheet said,
December 7, 2004 at 11:41 am
Ann Coulter — centerfold for the reactionary fringe. How to talk to a liberal, if you must. I think Ann should move to someplace like outside Thermopolis, Wyoming where she wouldn’t have to talk to liberals.
I guess she’s just a case study in two things:
1. A good education won’t make you smart; and,
2. Beauty is only skin deep, but stupid goes clear to the bone.
Or maybe both are just proof that turning a silk purse into a sow’s ear is not a bijection.
Audrey
Morrigan said,
December 7, 2004 at 4:00 pm
Reading the original post at the Proverbial Wife, it’s pretty obvious that she barely spent any time actually reading your blog before the narrow door to her mind snapped shut. I’ve found your writings to be inspiring, enjoyable, and one day I may try to brew my own beer as well.
Don’t let people like that get you down. Nothing you or anyone else could say would open her mind anyway.
Thanks for a great blog!
sara said,
December 8, 2004 at 6:55 pm
This all sounds pretty familiar to me. Shit, my site was written up in the Australian newspaper a couple of years ago, and for a while there it seemed like they wanted to drag me down there for a Booting.
Just this week, someone linked to my Cavalcade of Bad Nativity Sets (last year during Advent I put up a different Henri Nouwen meditation every day…this year it’s nativity sets populated by chickens. Track Sara’s spiritual progress, folks…) but said that my site is offensive. Ok, it’s probably the wtfwjd? stuff, or maybe the swearing. Probably the swearing. Or maybe he has a thing against people who knit too much. I don’t know. But it still bothers me when people don’t Get me. I hate being misunderstood. But if the choice is to be misunderstood, or to talk in the language of the Christian marketplace, well, I’ll go with misunderstood. There are plenty of people talking in that language, with their happy clappy Jesus and praise the Lord and Jeezus don’t like (fill in the blank), and that niche is full. People like you or Real Live Preacher or the other blogs I read speak of Jesus the way that I encounter him. People writing in this way brought me to faith in the first place, so I guess I’m a little defensive on the topic. And, apparently, long-winded. And self-referential.
This blog is your ministry.
Brandon said,
December 8, 2004 at 7:28 pm
Thank you, Sara. You’re a fantastic encourager. Do they teach you that at skool?
I’m not sure I belong in the same sentence as Gordon, but I’m not about to argue.
Thank you, and bless you.
dorsey said,
October 30, 2005 at 12:09 pm
Man, I hate these fucking spammers.
(You can delete this when you delete the spam. I just wanted to say it.)
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