Reply #12: You think like me, wildeyed! [View All]

[fudge stripe cookays]

I've been considering this the last few weeks, and I've got an idea.

Why don't we beat them at their own game? Do like they did with our school boards and local governments.

Start going to THEIR churches.

Wait...hear me out now. Yes, it would take some serious acting skills, and the patience of a saint.

But we could start off small, as regular members. REad up on the tenets of the religion beforehand. Act like you've moved from another church. Try to mouth the words to the songs if you don't know them. Become respected, follow the pack for awhile. Sign up for some committees. Go to bible school and stay quiet for a few months. Work your way in. Drive the car that DOESN'T have Democrat stickers all over it to the church.

But the minute we see something happening that breaks statutes between church and state, report it. When opinions are needed, inject yours into the official ones at the church. Begin as a "friend" and confidante, and begin to casually question the status quo. If at least one (or MORE) of us did this at each Baptist or Church of Christ or other wingnut church around us in our neighborhood, we could start to change things the same way they did.

I'm not saying it would be easy, but it's necessary. As long as no one questions them where they think they are invincible, they'll keep doing what they're doing.

FSC