well, that was interesting

[jfb]

Yesterday I gave up on getting LiveJournal to ping weblogs.com automatically, and I manually pinged it myself. Today, possibly unrelated, Google seems finally to have started indexing my LiveJournal posts.

I woke up to find that someone had left two comments on a month-old post in which I quoted the New York Times waxing rhapsodic on the American landscape, and also a local supporter of Eric Rudolph who explained that "Rudolph's a Christian and I'm a Christian." My new anonymous correspondent had two points to make: Take the Times with a grain of salt, and "be careful when you bash a Christian."

Now, I don't think I was taking the Times with less salt than I take anything else, and I don't think I was bashing anyone, except maybe Eric Rudolph by pretty much assuming the charges against him are true. But, um, well, welcome me back to the web. Anything you say may be held against you.

Comments

[wrog]

well, I will quite happily bash the people supporting Eric Rudolph ("Christian" or otherwise) if they're supporting him for any reason other than they think he's innocent / being-railroaded and the FBI got the wrong guy.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, her statement was, in effect, "I don't consider him a terrorist because he was doing it for good reasons." I don't think she thought he was innocent. I'd sure condemn that, but I may not know just what "bash" means.

[wrog]

well I meant "bash" in what I thought was the usual (at least for a written forum) sense of condemn/ridicule/vilify/lay-into/rip-a-new-one, which I'm assuming is the same sense your correspondent meant,

but maybe I don't know after all...