There certainly are no shortages of ‘nutbars’ in the world. A lot of them seem to be in KS.

Asking in my capacity as someone who had his tires slashed in Missouri for the capital offense of having a Darwinfish on his car (in addition to the slashing, the vandal pried the Darwinfish off the car, broke it in two, and left it on the roof of the car on the driver’s side), what do you find so implausible about someone who’s gotten a degree of notoreity for bashing fundamentalist Christians? Given my experience, that sounds only too plausible to me. As the saying goes, “Oh Jesus, please save me from your most fervent ‘admirers.’”

That should have read:

”...what do you find so implausible about someone who’s gotten a degree of notoreity for bashing fundamentalist Christians getting beaten up for that heinous offense?”

Sorry to be polluting your comments like this. I hate it when the caffeine doesn’t kick in like it used to.

I am glad that Len used the term “admirers” instead of “followers,” because the attackers CELARLY don’t follow Jesus’ teachings and, by definition, aren’t really Christians. [no, I do not want to get into a theological debate that will take hours and hours of parsing the text of James relative to Paul’s statements in Galations…yadda, yadda, yadda…but I will say that “belief” and “acting on that belief” are, in my opinion, one thing…not two]

In fact, I am glad that Len even put “admirers” in quotation marks.

Do I think it’s implausible that he could have been beaten up? No. However, his story seems pretty implausible—I don’t buy that he was just out-and-about, randomly minding his own business at oh-dark-thirty and got chased down by a pair of rednecks who just happened to find him by sheer coincidence in the boonies of Lawrence, Kansas.

Now, if his car had some sort of inflammatory bumper sticker on it (not that this sticker would excuse this behavior), or there was something else about the car that identified the driver, that might be a bit more plausible. But you’d think that would be part of the story.

It just seems a bit odd to me; maybe more facts will emerge that will make things make more sense, then again maybe not.