{"id":6570,"date":"2009-05-29T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/email-i-need-like-a-hole-in-the-head\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:59:26","slug":"email-i-need-like-a-hole-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/email-i-need-like-a-hole-in-the-head.html","title":{"rendered":"Email I need like a hole in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Dear Mr. Shea,<\/p>\n

Allow me to introduce myself as an unlettered Traditional Roman
Catholic, militant young-Earth Biblical creationist and geocentrist\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Folks are free to adopt whatever kooky ideas they like. They are free to be \u201cmilitant\u201d about it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m free to ignore such people when they clamor, as they inevitably do, for me to disprove their kookery.<\/p>\n

Oh, and they are free to declare me a \u201ccoward\u201d for doing so.<\/p>\n

Whatever. I\u2019ve got a lot to do. Disproving \u201cmilitant young-Earth Biblical creationism and geocentrism\u201d is not a priority for me.<\/p>\n

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Dear Mr. Shea, Allow me to introduce myself as an unlettered Traditional Roman Catholic, militant young-Earth Biblical creationist and geocentrist\u2026. Folks are free to adopt whatever kooky ideas they like. They are free to be \u201cmilitant\u201d about it. 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