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Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
1. "Pitting your children" Misuse of English too.
Sat Oct 17, 2015, 06:15 AM
Oct 2015

Yep, it's creepy and why you can't come out as an atheist in America in small towns.

You don't go to church? There must be something really really wrong with you. I only speak to the people at the bank and the post office. We don't have any stores other than a dollar store. I have to drive 20 miles just to buy groceries. The only nice buildings in town are the major churches, Baptist and Methodist. Everything else is total poverty.


I've been told I'm going to hell. When I had a large handpainted Obama sign in my front yard in 2008 and 2012 a group of loud rural gun-loving, extremely evangelically religious, deer hunting, uneducated white people who hate anyone who is not a Republican, white Anglo-Saxon extreme Protestant and far extremist Christian like they are (I have been told on DU that "redneck" is a racist term) kept driving by in a loud pickup, apparently because mufflers and auto maintenance are foreign concepts to them, and yelling "FUCK OBAMA!" They did this several times. This is one of the reasons we have a fence with an electronic gate.

They could have blown away me and my husband with a well aimed shot, had they wanted to do so. Scary.

Apparently we are the only white Democrats in the whole county.

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Mikey Gets Creepy Email [View all] beam me up scottie Oct 2015 OP
"Pitting your children" Misuse of English too. Manifestor_of_Light Oct 2015 #1
and believe me, they want to do so... mountain grammy Oct 2015 #3
My deepest sympathies. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #7
Has any christian ever written anything that isn't full of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes? MindPilot Oct 2015 #17
Yep, from living in the south, I've learned one thing for sure: Those "Good ol' boys" will kill ya'. BlueJazz Oct 2015 #20
You're not alone.. haikugal Nov 2015 #21
I pitt them, 2. Hoppy Oct 2015 #2
I pity the fool awoke_in_2003 Oct 2015 #6
"Your children better get the blinders out of their eyes" beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #8
Sounds like child abuse. progressoid Oct 2015 #11
LOL! beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #14
Well, they "pray on them" too AlbertCat Oct 2015 #13
'Prey on them' is the correct usage. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #15
"You will be a hallelujah bon fire of revenge for the Son of God." deucemagnet Oct 2015 #4
Lovely sentiment, I'm ready to convert. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #9
Somebody should put that on a greeting card. deucemagnet Oct 2015 #18
Hey I'd buy one! beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #19
The ignorance is astounding. Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #5
And just think, he's teaching children. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #10
2 of his sons and a daughter-in-law... onager Oct 2015 #12
Disgusting. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #16
What lies do Satan and Lucifer tell in the Bible? DetlefK Nov 2015 #22
I don't know, I haven't met him yet. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #23
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