On 23/09/2009, at 1:46 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
I know what you mean, I think, but I've stopped using the word
"nice" to describe it. I know churches that are perfectly "nice" to
gays, for example, but in doing so pretty much fail to accept them.
Sort of a "welcome to our church, we're glad to have you here and
we're certain that you're going to hell." Except that the last
sentence is implied, not spoken aloud.
I guess another way to say what I'm saying is that hypocrisy and
self-righteousness can be extremely nice, and I find the combination
to be not only irritating, but destructive to community. There's a
passive-aggressiveness present.
Well, I guess that's better than the lynchings. But I hear you.
C.
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