> When most Americans think of the Christian right, they think
> of scenes from television great halls full of perfectly groomed people in
> pale suits and light-colored dresses, smiling and happy and full of the
> Holy Spirit, robotically singing hymns at the behest of some squeaky-clean
> pastor with a baritone voice and impossible hair. We don't get to see the
> utterly batshit world they live in, when the cameras are turned off and
> their pastors are not afraid of saying the really dumb stuff, for fear of
> it turning up on CNN.
Taibbi misses the point that he's in one of the most batshit churches in the evangelical sphere. Hagee's theology is so far out there, some Protestant theologians don't even consider his church part of Christianity. This is the equivalent of me visiting some Meir Kahane-type synagogue in Borough Park (if they'd let me in the door) and basing my opinions of Jews on that experience.
> They were people of all sorts: younger white men in neat middle-class
> haircuts
WTF is one of those? I had planned to go in for a crew cut Monday, but now I'm worried.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."