I gladly swallowed the shit bc my parents and small church I grew up in are genuine and good people who live the best parts of the Bible.
Then I went off to seminary...
The naive...they're still out there. We have a new name for them...but they're a force for disruption and control....don't assume it's "a miracle" that they swallow it...or you fall in to platitudes like this;
I love the only white guy in the middle east and he didn't stick out like sore thumb.
Evidently he did stick out. Gone but not forgotten.
@EyesThatSmile But he was 30 before anyone noticed him.
@EyesThatSmile Either that or someone changed the tone (haha) of the story.