I am genuinely sorry that I read Kathy's posts. Really, I am. But after reading the responses she got from reasoned posters, people I respect, I felt I owed it to them.
Let's take this a step at a time, Kathy.
First of all, I'd like to know where the hell you ever got the idea I would either waste my time or degrade myself by engaging in physical violence with you. If you're going to engage in hyperbole and slander, you'd better have some evidence of the FACTS. I've got a hot flash for you, woman: You may have been foolish enough to stay with men who treated you violently, but I haven't wasted my time with women who would tolerate that with me. The women I know, the ladies I know and respect, would not.
In fact, quite the opposite.
A friend of ours was married to a guy who came home drunk one night. (Note that word "one.") After finding out that dinner would be late, he smacked her around a little. He went into the bedroom after dinner and passed out on the bed. She waited until he was asleep, tied him up in the sheets, then took a baseball bat and beat the ever-loving fecal matter out of him. (A tough move on her part, considering how far his cranium was jammed up into his rectum.) Keep this in mind: This woman qualifies in my book as a Lady. Not that you would consider her such, given that this woman is a Catholic, and she doesn't take a crap from anyone, but then, your opinion has mattered for less and less since you started posting here, and Ducky revealed your lies to the entire board.
No, Kathy, you're not worth slapping. It's why you're on "ignore." You have demonstrated you are one of the most offensive, repellent trolls this board has ever seen. That you slander people I know and respect -- people of genuine faith -- by your condescending actions, by your vile words spoken in the name of Jesus, is to me all the more reason why I wouldn't soil myself by wasting any more time with you than I absolutely need to, and I sure as hell wouldn't degrade myself by hitting you. (And why the hell did you think I wanted to meet you in a public place? Or did you think a Denny's where CHP and Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies eat their meals would allow anyone to smack anyone else? Are you really that STUPID?)
Frankly, Kathy, there aren't too many people in this world I would hit. See, that kind of thing you reserve for people for whom you hold some potential for respect. I don't respect you. There is nothing TO respect. Trust me, there have been many people here that I've wanted to punch square in the mouth. Oddly enough, I've actually met a few of them face to face, and wound up respecting them. You? I don't think there's any way that would ever happen.
Yes, I'm pissed off with you. You don't falsely accuse me of something like that. Ever. You're going to be reported for this. Hopefully, you'll be banned.
Another point: No, Kathy, you DON'T want to see anyone here saved. If you had ever wanted to see anyone on this board saved, you would have examined yourself, and your actions, and conducted yourself accordingly. Considering your actions in the light of the REAL Christians who post here, who do so with compassion, respect, and dignity, who have become some of the most respected people on this board, I can honestly say you have demonstrated the same degree of "faith" as the likes of Fred Phelps. (God, I miss Stamenflicker.) Your smugness in the face of the anger you engender among people here demonstrates this. And in spite of what Christian Dude has said to attempt to defend you, you have undercut your own husband with your hate. That, as much as anything else, is something I find appalling. Why would you do such a thing to your own husband? Or are you really that selfish? (I already know the answer, as do you. This is called a "rhetorical question." Just so you know.)
I have heard about Judgment Day. I'm far too familiar with it. I used to believe in it. The problem is, Kathy, that most "Christians" are obsessed with it. Sorry, but if you're really that worried about it, you are not a Christian. What you tell me with this monomania about Jesus' "imminent" return, (it's been two thousand years, I don't think it's going to happen any time soon, if at all), is not that you have any confidence in your salvation, but that you haven't any at all. You are not saved, because if you were, you wouldn't have to preach about it, you'd show it. You would be living a life as a saved woman. (And if you've ever read any of Kittynh's posts, or MLynn's, you would see what a Saved woman is like.)
Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is for you about Judgment Day. If you're saved, you really don't anything to worry about. Unless, of course, your behavior was so repellent to the unsaved that they fled at the very mention of His name. In that case, I think I'd be a bit worried, too. (Thanks, Chaos!)
You weren't making a "joke," Kathy. Once more, you're lying. In fact, the weird thing is that you lie even when telling the truth would serve you better. You honestly believe that people on this board took pleasure in the death of this man, and nothing could have been further from the truth. The one or two sick bastards who would have taken pleasure in this tragedy generally don't post here, mainly because people like Upchurch, like Tricky, like the the vast majority of people here, would have reported that kind of abuse, and the mods would have either suspended them, or reprimanded them. No one but you would have even considered anyone taking any pleasure from this sad event. Only you, Kathy. You're the only person who even considered this.
Most people on this board have been saddened by this. No one should have suffered like this. This man leaves behind a family, friends, and a congregation that will remember how he died, and they will remember how pointless it was.
And, no, Kathy, he was not "demon possessed." Quit reading William Peter Blatty. There are no demons. Demons are make believe, every bit as much as fairies, gnomes, and honest truthers. They simply don't exist. This man, if I'm reading this right, was suffering from Lyme's Disease, something my idiot Brother in Law's sister is enduring right now. She has many of the same medical problems as this man, though she's nowhere near as gone. It is a disease, Kathy. We know what causes it, and to a limited extent, we can treat it. Tragically, many people who progress to this stage do suffer from a number of different maladies, and one of them can be the loss of their precious sanity. This was not the work of a demon; it was the result of nature, and the fact that we are subject to the laws of nature.
It is an act of extreme selfishness, this declaration that it's "demonic," that you choose to ignore the scientific evidence which reveals this to be what it truly is, that you are so fixated on this being a sign of the End Times, that you cannot even allow this man and the pastor he's killed one last shred of dignity as their lives end.
I was not an atheist when you started posting here. But I am now. You, woman, have played a very minor role in convincing me there could be no god. But you've played one, nonetheless. You lie to people on this board, then justify it in the name of Christ. You have so offended my wife that she wants nothing to do with you. (And as I've pointed out, Peggy is very much a Christian.) You have shown everyone on this board just how low you'll go just to get a reaction, a hit, to anything you say.
You are on ignore for a reason. I don't have any more time to waste with someone who slanders my friends, who slanders me. I don't want to waste any further time with you, and this will probably be the last missive from me that you'll ever read. You disgust me, Kathy, with your smears, your abuse, your hypocrisy. No, Kathy, you have nothing to offer, unless you're dressed in leather and carrying a whip, and I don't swing that way. I have no further time to waste with liars. And out of respect for a man who, by all appearances, wanted nothing more than to serve the god he believed in, was gunned down as a result of a psychotic episode by a man who had been infected with a progressively degenerative disease, I would sincerely hope you are at the very least suspended from this board, and at best, banned. You represent the very worst of evangelicals, and in so doing, you smear my friends, my loved ones, and in turn, you smear me.
If there were any justice, you would be condemned to the very Hell you wish on the rest of us. But, as you've already show us, there isn't any where you're concerned.