living in captivity
Your rule of thumb
Makes me worry some

Not being a rightwinger perhaps their sense of humor is lost on me. For some reason, John Hinderaker finds it amusing that a Sheik's audience would sit and listen to him with rapt attention while he rants away:

There seems to me a Pythonesque element to the rapt attention of the worshipers listening to the Gaza sheik. I don't know if laughter is an appropriate response, but it makes me feel a little better.

When high profile liberal bloggers make such statements about Christian preachers ranting away while their congregation sits soaking it in with rapt attention..it's Christian bashing. The divisive invective leashed forth from the mouths of some of the more aggressive Christian leaders in this country is untouchable. The cruci-fiction crowd considers speaking out against vitriolic hate speech from the pulpit to be an assault on the downtrodden American Christian society who considers itself powerless against the onslaught of liberalism...despite the fact that conservative Christians essentially run government at all levels of the federal system.

Yet when a Sheik spouts forth odious rhetorical vomit while his congregation soaks it up like sponges, it's time to stand up and...giggle?

Maybe it's just a Minnesota thing.

(crossposted for the PK lover in you)

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