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plutherusWell, OK, so it was just the one woman who denounced them. And only to me, but it was still pretty darn funny:
I was doing laundry last night, and, riding up in the Elevator, I heard a very loud "HMPH!" beside me, from the woman who was also going up.
Well, really, the only possible reply to a HMMPH directed towards one's person is a HM? directed back. So I did.
And now I have to interrupt for a moment because I forgot to describe the T-shirt I was wearing. It was a picture of Scott Bakula, radiant halo and all, on the front, and, on the back "Because His career died for your sins".
Apparently, this woman, who I suppose lives somewhere in my building, took that as a direct attack on her religion, which has the heretical belief that some other guy's career died for your sins.
I know this, because she said so:
"You know if you were attacking any other minority group like that, you'd be put in jail. But for some reason, everyone thinks that it's OK to attack christians."
"uh... um... oookaaay..." I replied, in my usual eloquent style. It's not that I was actually backing down, or trying to avoid an argument, or fleeing discussion. It's just that I honestly, truly, could not think of anything to say.
And, honestly, I never really made the connection. I mean, I always thought that if someone had the right to be offended by the Cult, it would be Scott Bakula Himself, but yet, to my knowledge, he's never denounced it.
Fortunately, she didn't need my side of the conversation to continue: "You think you'd get away with wearing a T-shirt that said 'I hate niggers'?"
I informed her that I failed to see the parallel. I believe the exact phrasing I used was "Wha-a-HUH?!"
Throughout the rest of the ride/lecture, I did menage to mention that I thought that christians, at 80% of the populace, might not constiture a "minority", and that perhaps there were even one or two among the highest offices of the federal government, but I don't think I convinced her.
I just wish the T-shirt was less faded and stained, or I'd wear it more often.
I'll have to pick up another one at the next Norwescon...
(And now, I have three T-shirt stories to bore people with! Yay!
I was doing laundry last night, and, riding up in the Elevator, I heard a very loud "HMPH!" beside me, from the woman who was also going up.
Well, really, the only possible reply to a HMMPH directed towards one's person is a HM? directed back. So I did.
And now I have to interrupt for a moment because I forgot to describe the T-shirt I was wearing. It was a picture of Scott Bakula, radiant halo and all, on the front, and, on the back "Because His career died for your sins".
Apparently, this woman, who I suppose lives somewhere in my building, took that as a direct attack on her religion, which has the heretical belief that some other guy's career died for your sins.
I know this, because she said so:
"You know if you were attacking any other minority group like that, you'd be put in jail. But for some reason, everyone thinks that it's OK to attack christians."
"uh... um... oookaaay..." I replied, in my usual eloquent style. It's not that I was actually backing down, or trying to avoid an argument, or fleeing discussion. It's just that I honestly, truly, could not think of anything to say.
And, honestly, I never really made the connection. I mean, I always thought that if someone had the right to be offended by the Cult, it would be Scott Bakula Himself, but yet, to my knowledge, he's never denounced it.
Fortunately, she didn't need my side of the conversation to continue: "You think you'd get away with wearing a T-shirt that said 'I hate niggers'?"
I informed her that I failed to see the parallel. I believe the exact phrasing I used was "Wha-a-HUH?!"
Throughout the rest of the ride/lecture, I did menage to mention that I thought that christians, at 80% of the populace, might not constiture a "minority", and that perhaps there were even one or two among the highest offices of the federal government, but I don't think I convinced her.
I just wish the T-shirt was less faded and stained, or I'd wear it more often.
I'll have to pick up another one at the next Norwescon...
(And now, I have three T-shirt stories to bore people with! Yay!
