[Vision2020] Sinead and the Pope re: Honking the horn on the General Lee

Mon, 12 May 2003 08:36:22 +0000

Auntie and others:

As usual, witty, eloquent, devastating... though I really don't agree.

However...

What I wonder is how the local Catholics escape the wrath of the local 
agnostics, atheists and "progressives" (whatever that means)?!

Certainly the Pope and all his minions are more of threat to "liberation and 
equality" than Doug Wilson and Christ Church will ever be.

Look what happened to that incredible women, that inspired dream come flesh, 
Sinead O'Connor!  After one critical comment she made on Saturday Night Live 
about the Pope, they set upon her with a vengeance, ruining her career for a 
spell, silencing that beautiful, so effortlessly passionate DIVINE voice, 
forcing cancellations of her concerts, and preventing her, to this day, from 
receiving the full public audience and acclaim she deserves!

This amounted to a modern day "witch burning."

There is an hour long special recently produced titled "The Song of Heart's 
Desire" featuring Sinead O'Connor.  To watch Sinead filmed up close as she 
sang... I can't begin to express... every word and phrase I imagine pales.

This was the true meaning of having a "religious" experience.

Sinead should rule the spiritual world!

Ted

>From: "Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Honking the horn on the General Lee
>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 13:09:30 -0700
>
>Doug sez:
>
>>The kind of mind that cannot see nobility in slave-owners like George 
>>Washington, Thomas Jefferson, >and Robert E. Lee is the kind of mind that 
>>cannot see nobility anywhere.
>
>Ah, I see the circus is in town again.  That explains all the elephant 
>crap.
>
>Rather than waste our time looking for nobility in slave-owners (a task 
>akin to looking for clean sheets in a brothel), I would like to suggest 
>that Doug write all of his original thoughts about history, religion, and 
>philosophy on the back of a postcard and mail it to The Dukes of Hazzard 
>fan club.  I’m sure those who enjoy watching the hilarious antics of Boss 
>Hogg and Daisy will be most appreciative.  After all, what could be more 
>fun than a rousing defense of the old Confederacy written by a preacher 
>from Idaho?  Well, perhaps a twenty-five minute dance remix of “Dixie” sung 
>by Randy Weaver.
>
>And while Doug’s busy with his renunciation of the Emancipation 
>Proclamation, perhaps the rest of us should take some time to ponder how it 
>is that once again the three-ring circus of Logos, New Saint Andrews, and 
>the Canon Press has managed to hijack the public discourse.  What with the 
>extensive coverage Doug gets for his various business and entertainment 
>ventures from the Daily News and the Lewiston Morning Tribune, not to 
>mention the endless dissection of his every thought and deed on this list, 
>we have all essentially become his unpaid carnival barkers.  Doug says 
>something outrageous, ridiculous, or inflammatory, and, gee, we can’t 
>resist.  Step right up and get a load of Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy!  What a 
>deal!  The public eye!  The free publicity!  Like P. T. Barnum, Doug just 
>proves that there’s a sucker born every minute.
>
>Now, I’m not suggesting that we end this discussion.  I enjoy a good Vision 
>2020 Smackdown just as much as the next email crank, but I think we should 
>acknowledge the law of unintended consequences.  Any stranger signing onto 
>this list would think Moscow was Falls Church, Virginia.  In fact, Doug 
>Wilson does not loom over this town like the colossus of Jerry Falwell.  I 
>suspect that the entire population of Christ Church wouldn’t fill the 
>vestibule at the Church of the Nazarene.  Louder is not bigger.  What was 
>the number Doug laid claim to during last summer’s battle of the breast, 
>850?  Counting all men, women, and children, that’s a grand (or, rather, 
>aggrandized) total of two hundred families.  We’re not talking about the 
>Borg, here, folks.  Resistance is not futile.  We will not be assimilated.
>
>Which isn’t to say that we shouldn’t fight.  When religion encroaches on 
>the secular sphere, we should all (wo)man the barricades separating church 
>and state.  But purely internal matters at Christ Church—the day to day 
>running of the hive mind, as it were—are of no more than prurient interest.
>
>I hope the atheists will forgive me if I share with you a parable.  I’ve 
>got a three year-old who’s taken to picking his nose.  He does it all over 
>the place, in stores, in restaurants, at the dinner table.  I find it 
>absolutely revolting, but when I tell him to stop, he laughs.  Time out 
>doesn’t work; neither does argument, cajoling, or threat.  What’s best, 
>I’ve discovered, is to ignore him.  Unless he tries to wipe a booger on me, 
>I just let it go.
>
>Get a Kleenex.  Now blow.  Thank you.
>
>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
>
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