Things I Am Just Done With, Vol. 12

Are you familiar with articles where a journalist goes undercover to a conservative Christian event in order to better understand/subvert/mock it? There are a few classic ones about Christian rock festivals that are actually quite good: John Jeremiah Sullivan's piece for GQ is amazing -- beautiful and sad and personal and just dead on right about so many things. Rick Levin's piece (one of the earlier ones of this genre) for the Stranger is less serious, but is funny and incisive.
But I threw up my hands at this smarmy, self-assured article in the SF Weekly , which ran last September. It is all about the writer at a Christian abstinence event, showing us how clever he is, and how funny his double entendres were and how all the uptight Christians totally didn't get it. I am so finished with this shit! Maybe it's because I spent last weekend reading James Ault's even-handed Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church, but I just can't take any more exlpoitation of the "sacred"/"secular" divide by anyone who claims either side. If you haven't figured out that we're all in this together yet, well...good luck.


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