Reply #82: I read something very similar to this in the Asheville Tribune. [View All]

a pastor was writing in calling immigrants to Asheville "invaders" and saying people need to "reject" them.

Asheville has always been liberal, George Vanderbilt (ironically considered the "poor" Vanderbilt) brought his millions to the area and with it came art and culture the likes of which it had never seen, along with the wealthy from Charleston and the surrounding flatlands summering there.

The op-ed I read was one of the most vicious and vile pieces I've read in that area, it seemed to me to be using religious allusions and language to incite (this is just me, but it's what i got from it) violence and hatred againt people without local roots in the area.

The irony is that these folks are no different than muslim fundies, the language they use is so similar because it came out of the same geographical region a few hundred years apart. I'm sick of it, of the hyperbole, the horseman/sword/victory laden metaphors, the depravity that is somehow excused because of a racial annointing from God. I mean i'm sick of ALL of it. This is one freaking region on this planet that has dominated human discourse and daily life for 5000 years or more, and I'm fucking sick of it. Sound the buzzer. Time's up zealous students of middle-eastern fables of every stripe, YOUR WAY DOESN'T WORK.