Mr. Rexwood Curry goes a huntin!

There's been an update with my friend Ellis Rexwood Curry IV. You may remember this clown, the guy who acts like he's a professional historian, who writes about himself in the third person, and who blames socialism in America on the evil Pledge of Allegiance?

Tell me again, how can a person that is smart enough to earn a J.D. and pass the bar exam, still not be capable of having his own law office? Why is this guy working as a public defender and moonlighting as an online community college instructor that teaches students how to look and dress in the courtroom?

I'll tell you. It is because he is so nuts that L. Ron Hubbard said, "Woah" and started taking notes!

Tell me what would you do if your neighbor had a dog that barked? Would you, (a) complain to the police? (b) call animal control, or (c) investigate your neighbor's background, publish your findings on gaudy signs in your yard, use those findings to get your neighbor fired from his job, and use your position as a lawyer to get the State Bar to send the neighbor a "cease and desist" that costs him thousands of dollars to defend. Then use 'tit for tat' noise like a leaf blower that runs for hours, and when that doesn't get the neighbor's dog to shut up, you just shoot it and call it "self defense"!

If you picked (c) then I'll say, "Hello Mr. Curry!"

Check out the comments to the article there. Lots of people seem to agree to Mr. Curry being a real shit. I'll be interested to see how long he continues to hold his license to practice law.


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Dripping of hate

Sometimes when I have a little time I write in the comments section of the Fresno Bee.  The local religious opinion is too often unopposed by anyone who is not religious, unopposed by those who require evidence before stating something as a fact.  I have no illusions that I will change the minds of others commenting there, but perhaps I can help plant a seed of rationality of anyone else reading.

Recently, one person commenting said that my blog "drips of hate for Christians and our God."

Hate?  Really?  Prone to hyperbole much?

I don't hate "God" any more than I hate the Easter Bunny.  They are fictional characters.  Heck, God isn't even as real to me as Hello Kitty - at least I can get a plush doll of that.  (And my wife had many!)

What I do "hate" - which in this case means, "disagree with vehemently" - is the religious right's attempts to hijack America's laws and Constitution for their own purposes.  What I "hate" is the religious right's attempts to dehumanize people in order to demonize them. 

But being disagreed with, having your position worked against, this isn't "hate" - if it were then every politician would be guilty of it.

And I have to wonder... which of my blog postings "drips of hate"? 

Is it when I write about the Christian problem with Heaven?  When I talk about the inherent hypocrisy of the Christian position against same-sex marriage?  When I examine the question of why Christians are breaking the law to flood Iraq with bibles?

Do Christians think I'm hateful because I've identified what those feelings of the Holy Spirit were when I was a Christian, and have learned to reproduce them at will?  Are they upset when I tear apart the religious right's "proof" that abstinence only education is sound science?  Maybe they are threatened at my exposing the inherent religious hypocrisy in "Don't ask, Don't tell"?

I know... it's my approval of student organized, and student led prayer in school that is so "hateful".  I'm so sorry!

Here's a clue.  Having a contrary opinion, a different moral philosophy, a different worldview is not "hate".  Having someone work against your position because they honestly believe it to be incorrect is not "hate".

But "Hate the sin, love the sinner" does seem, to me, to be a very special form of hatred that discounts a person's convictions merely because they differ from your own.  This is not a position that I - or any atheist I know - holds.

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