Monday, July 30, 2007  Kevin Takes on the Priest  The Franklin
Guy, aka Kevin Fisher, doesn't always like what he hears from
the pulpit.  ...the visiting priest during his homily suddenly
launched into a loud dissertation about child abusers and the
general attitude most people have towards them. He gestured with
his hands and asked everyone in the pews if they wouldn’t like
to warp their hands around the throat of a child abuser. The
priest used similar rhetoric about identity thieves and illegal
immigrants.  The rhetoric is inflammatory. This priest is either
ignorant or deliberately provocative. I'd prefer that the former
be the case; but then, we have to ask "who let him out without a
complete education?" If it is the latter, he needs remedial work
with someone who actually knows something about the world.
Because of this deliberately provocative and ignorant beginning,
he manages to achieve exactly the wrong result:  I was not
impressed or convinced.  [I find] it extremely difficult, if not
damn near im