Open letter

Dear Conservative Person on my Facebook,

Let me start by saying that I never really knew you in high school, because you attended some years after I had graduated.  I accepted your friend request to be nice because I did graduate with your sister (sadly, she and I never got along--we competed too much for the same things and she just plain annoyed the shit out of me).   

However, your post today has put me out of patience with you.  When you use the "so simple a Caveman can understand it," argument, but substitute "liberal" for "Caveman," you make it clear that your only point is to belittle others to make yourself big.  So far you've shown me you have no practice with logical arguments, nor interest in learning any.  Your sources are abysmal.  You have no idea what peer-reviewed articles are and you obtain your information only from people who agree with you.  Anyone who agrees with you, no matter how slapdash and misspelled his webpage is. 

You profess to be an evangelical Christian.  This makes me laugh bitterly, because you don't have any good news for anyone, and your worship of money belies your "absolute" faith.  Your behavior smears other Christians who really do live their faith and don't use it as an excuse to parade their fears and hatreds and bully others.  It's a good thing I know lots of those, or I'd wash my hands of the whole religion as well.

I am done with you.  I should have known better than to accept your request, since after all, you are related to someone who used to make me claw at my own face in despair of humanity.  She, however, was just annoying.  Your willful ignorance and arrogance are dangerous.  Don't pray for me--save those for yourself.  I have a feeling that someone you've been using to justify your hatreds is going to have something to say to you someday, and you're not going to like it much. 

Good luck with that.

Me