I call it "dispatches from Freep-Amurka" but if any of y'all have a better title, tell me, because I'm uber horrible at titles. :)
"Well, today’s the big
game. State quarterfinals. “The Big Game”: words that would send chills up the spine of any Southern good-ole-boy or gal for that matter. Football is the universal religion of the Southeastern United States, and it’s a religion that might be just as powerful, or maybe even more powerful than the number one preferred religion of the region--protestant evangelical, somewhat fundamentalist—but not too much on the Fred-Phelps-esque crazy side, Christianity.
Of course, not all southern Christians are like what I described above. Case and point: I and my family, we’re quite liberal and we try our hardest to follow Jesus’ teachings about helping the poor and non-violence. And I’m sure we aren’t the only ones in the entire Southeast. The fundies just get all the spotlight, and they get way more spotlight than they even deserve. So the question is how much do these self-proclaimed “real Christians” follow the teachings of the founder of Christianity himself, Jesus Christ.
First, we’ll look at the colorful but not-so-delightful two main species of Stereotypical Southern Christian (known from this point on as SSC..."
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