Sometimes you can’t look away. Sometimes you’re fascinated by the heart of darkness. And sometimes you’re curious about the difference between the Truly Evil and the Merely Misinformed.
Not far from my hometown, one of the last vestiges of the Ku Klux Klan survives. I’ve mentioned a particular blog before, but I won’t link to it this time, just in case they check their backlinks.
I promised myself I wouldn’t comment on that blog. But sometimes I have to poke dead things with sticks. My anonymous comment is first here. Naturally I came at it with a sarcastic and self-righteous attitude, and I succeeded at creating no dialogue.
But what if I changed my personality and voice? What if I put myself into a similar mindset? I tried again with that in mind and succeeded! While the message didn’t make it past the blog owner/moderator, he liked it enough not only to excerpt it in a future blog post, but also to use it as the basis for a two-part sermon! The part in italics is what I wrote. I hope that there will be some way to see or hear this sermon online. I feel oddly proud of this accomplishment.
To get a better idea of the voice I wrote in, read the last comment on this page, which did make it past moderation. And since no comments have been left after it, I can feel some bit of satisfaction at having politely schooled one of the other posters.
Now I have to step back and ask…am I totally deranged for doing this?
I sometimes try to have the same sorts of conversations with Lady Lydia at homeliving.blogspot.com, so I don’t think you’re deranged. But maybe I’m also deranged. I don’t think so, though, because the conversations you and I attempt to have are at least vaguely reasonable, unlike some people who take offense (see homeyliving.blogspot.com, which IS totally deranged).
Jeebus, Angel. The graphic design on that site alone indicates that the author is extremely disturbed.