Every once in a while I get a nice piece of hate mail from someone who disagrees with me. This one, in response to an article I wrote on the topic of celebrating Christmas, however, takes the cake:
You are a candy fanny, gutless coward attempting to rationalize your stupidity. God have mercy on fools like you who call yourselves men of God but have lace on your drawers and probably squat to pee. You are a liar and a fraud and a curse to Christianity.
I have to give it to this guy, he is original in his insults!
Thinking to Believe 
June 30, 2009 at 6:35 pm
That ‘squat to pee’ is a reference made by a youtube sensation in reference to those of us who do not worship the KJV.
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July 1, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Polycarp,
I have not seen that one yet! It’s amazing how vitriolic and unchristian many of the KJV-Only crowd are. If they really think they have the intellectual goods to back up their claims, they should share those with people who disagree with them, rather than just hurling insults like this fellow did. But they don’t have the goods, so I guess insults will have to do.
Jason
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July 26, 2009 at 7:21 pm
“Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.”
Or, in the vernacular:
“Sir, you are an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunch-backed, thick-lipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellent, smarmy, foul-mouthed, greasy, gluttonous, loathsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life.”
That’s the Abecedarian insult from the Superior Person’s Little Book of Words.
By the way – I like the KJV for its poetry. But unless you go back to the original koin, all translations are approximations, some good, some very good, some not so good.
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July 26, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Zoe,
That’s the most intellectually-sounding put-down I’ve ever heard! I like the hairy-buttocked charge. 🙂
Jason
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July 27, 2009 at 3:15 am
I should of course have added “present company excepted”. 🙂
A Kind Word sometimes turns away wrath – but showing how ridiculous being wrathful is can also work. It can re-establish the boind of common humanity, despite our differences.
Of course… I’ve had serious doubts expressed by some in the medical profession whether I actually qualify as H.Sap., but that was based in my weird endocrinology rather than any personality failings.
“You do know you’re a freak don’t you” when said by a medic while looking at yet another set of anomalous and off-the-scale-for-human blood tests, and said with laughter and compassion, got me laughing too. I have a VERY good medical team looking after me.
“Don’t worry, our plans for your species are benign” was how I replied. Which got us both giggling in disbelief.
Had that been said in another context, with another tone, it would have been most unkind, As it was, we were both Geeks marvelling at one of Nature’s more peculiar oddities.
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