[Sosfbay-discuss] Fw: The JESUS Machine

[Tian Harter]

Back when I lived in Orange County I had a great girlfriend named
Christina. She was a Latina from East LA. One Sunday we went over to her
mother's house and had menudo with her mother and brother, a guy named
Jesus. Since then I've enjoyed telling preachers telling me that Jesus
would solve my problems "I've had menudo with Jesus. He has enough
trouble with his own problems. He isn't going to solve mine."

Yeah, I know, he prounced it "Jesse", but hey, it spells like Jesus,
and I live in a world where I see a lot more names than I hear.

Another time I knocked on her door and her son's girlfriend answered.
She yelled out "Hey Chris, it's Tian!" Then she did a double take.
When Christina got there she said "I just realized 'Chris'" pointing
at Christina "Tian", pointing at me, "christian" saying the word for
the religion grouping. I think we all laughed, but I'm not sure.

At the time the guy in the cube across the hall from me had the last 
name Christian, and the guy two cubes down from me was so Christian
I found him obnoxious. Not only that but the local baseball team was
called the Angels. I was up to here in a super saturated "Christian"
environment. I'm scared to visit the website. Might stir up memories.

Tian
That stuff is more than a decade behind me now. I'd like to forget the 
Christian fundamentalists. If only my sister and her family weren't
part of it.

Drew Johnson wrote:
> Count me in.
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> Green is Real!
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> Drew
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> On Thu, January 29, 2009 10:02, Caroline Yacoub wrote:
>> Anybody interested in starting a "Stop Exploiting Jesus" movement?
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>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> From: Shane Que Hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:45:49 AM
>> Subject: The JESUS Machine
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>>
>>> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:37:54 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Geraldo Cienmarcos <gary100dm at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: The JESUS Machine
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.jesusmachine.com/
>>>
>>> Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the
>>> author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family,
>>> and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former
>>> politics editor at
>>> beliefnet._______________________________________________
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