http://popdose.com/political-culture-doing-business-on-faith-and-credit/ your daily dose of pop culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://popdose.com/political-culture-doing-business-on-faith-and-credit/#comment-9155 Political Culture: Preaching to the (Un)converted | Popdose Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:01 +0000 http://popdose.com/political-culture-doing-business-on-faith-and-credit/#comment-9155 [...] As I have noted before, I consider myself an agnostic; yes, I’m one of the wishy-washy millions who refuses to take a side, to either completely rule out the existence of a god or throw in my chips with a particular deity and his/her/its attendant set of beliefs and rituals. One thing I know for damn sure, however, is that I hate being proselytized at, or to, or whatever word will allow me to avoid ending this sentence with a preposition. That low tolerance level has led me to slam doors in the faces of innumerable Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, to openly mock street-corner Jews for Jesus pamphleteers on college campuses (“It’s Jews or Jesus, you moron!”), and to spew torrents of venom at a fundamentalist who dared approach me during an outdoor blues concert in Memphis. [...] [...] As I have noted before, I consider myself an agnostic; yes, I’m one of the wishy-washy millions who refuses to take a side, to either completely rule out the existence of a god or throw in my chips with a particular deity and his/her/its attendant set of beliefs and rituals. One thing I know for damn sure, however, is that I hate being proselytized at, or to, or whatever word will allow me to avoid ending this sentence with a preposition. That low tolerance level has led me to slam doors in the faces of innumerable Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, to openly mock street-corner Jews for Jesus pamphleteers on college campuses (“It’s Jews or Jesus, you moron!”), and to spew torrents of venom at a fundamentalist who dared approach me during an outdoor blues concert in Memphis. [...]

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