There’s a ballot measure for a substantial property tax increase for the fire department locally. Sickeningly, people in my church are for it. The girl in this conversation goes to my church, and before I asked the first question, a guy from my church, who is a real pantywaist, had responded that he will bring her a sign. He showed again what a real pantywaist he is by deleting his comment. Here’s the conversation.

This girl is a perky, bubbly person who is currently running an insurance agency, and is marketing herself as someone with whom you’d want to come in and chit chat about insurance. I’m surprised she betrayed all the marketing efforts in this conversation with personal attacks.

A troll from stories I read as a kid is a creature that lives under a bridge and forces people to pay a toll. Does that sound at all applicable to this situation? Call me whatever names you want, but she is the real troll, in favor of forcing others to pay just for living in this fire district. Once a year the system of trolls send the bill, and we’re forced to pay.

She’s personally mounting an attack on my financial well-being. Any other business in favor of forcing people to pay for its services would be immoral, but I’m the troll for speaking out against the covetousness in my congregation. I’m the troll for not wanting to be forced to pay for services I’ve never used, and being in favor of a funding model that doesn’t involve threats and violence.

But yesterday, my pastor spoke on the minutiae of Exodus 35 for 50 minutes, while ignoring the gross immorality of a good portion of the people in his church.  Christians are the enemy of righteous government and liberty. That is why we are losing the culture.