Crazy Talk

Posted on 11/14/2008 at 2:17 pm by Bob Cesca

An e-mail response to my Huffington Post column this week:

If you will, a quick anecdote that proves your point about the Far Right behavior. Some 20 years ago I was going through Chaplaincy training at the state mental hospital. One day I was assigned to do a Bible study with the patients, and lo and behold, I got “Jesus” in my class.– who went on a great length about his viewpoints.

At the end I told my supervisor (who monitored the class) “I let Jesus go on too long.” He replied, “Yes, but that wasn’t your biggest mistake. Everything he was saying was Crazy Talk — you should have shut him up by telling him, ‘That’s Crazy Talk.’” So you called it — we have to label all the Crazy Talk, as Crazy Talk.

Grace,
Pastor Dave

Spot on. At the same time, however, we ignore it at our own peril.

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  • recruitgal

    Hey.. maybe it was Jesus…?If He does decide to come back now, nobody would believe it was him. He’d probably would end up sectioned in a mental hospital.

  • MBrown

    Wow! I feel like I just had an epiphany! Of course!I just wonder how this is going to work w/ the in-laws at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Guess I’m gonna have to get used to becoming an impolite guest and perfect my right hook. Seriously.

  • cactusgal

    Just pointing out Crazy Talk isn’t enough. You need an “Enforcer” who can grab the Crazy Talker by the scruff, sit his ass down and stuff a sock in his mouth. Otherwise you’ll get crucified.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Glad that Pastor Dave makes his voice heard. Not all of us religious folk are “the enemy.” ;) QT

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    OK – this is not precisely related, and I want to make clear that I’m not making fun of anyone at all. But. This. Is. FUNNY!http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=55505&st=0&gopid=1167440&#entry1167440Besides reading the whole link, there’s a link IN the link. Follow it. Please. Yes – even you, Bob.QT

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Crud. It occurs to me that there is not one, but three links in the opening post… which probably undoes the joke. :( Anyway, here’s the link in the link that I was trying to point to: http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/11/13/the-hand-scanner-of-the-beast/QT

  • Redflags

    I suppose that with some people it’s impossible to argue politics in any coherent fashion. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic in the throes of a delusional episode.No amount of rational discourse will persuade a schizo (with all due respect to people who genuinely suffer from this disabling illness) that gas isn’t being pumped into their bedroom (see Cronenberg’s “Spider” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbqz4wZqUw) or that the “mark of the beast” isn’t being imprinted upon their nervous hands.It’s probably better just to leave them alone while protecting them from harming themselves and others and hope that the ever-unfolding events and changing circumstances of our world can bring them around to a little bit of sanity. Just a thought.Ignorance can be cured with education; economic, social and political insanity abolished with revolution.

  • Redflags

    I suppose that with some people it’s impossible to argue politics in any coherent fashion. It’s like dealing with a schizophrenic in the throes of a delusional episode.No amount of rational discourse will persuade a schizo (with all due respect to people who genuinely suffer from this disabling illness) that gas isn’t being pumped into their bedroom (see Cronenberg’s “Spider” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbqz4wZqUw) or that the “mark of the beast” isn’t being imprinted upon their nervous hands.It’s probably better just to leave them alone while protecting them from harming themselves and others and hope that the ever-unfolding events and changing circumstances of our world can bring them around to a little bit of sanity. Just a thought.Ignorance can be cured with education; economic, social and political insanity abolished with revolution.

  • http://girldujour.wordpress.com girl du jour

    My fiance and I were discussing the fact that there is supposed to “separation between church and state” only now religion and politics seem to be one in the same.Sad.And entirely inappropriate.