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Y'know, having just read these posts by connielane and peachespig, I want to make a confession: if I had been on the "other side" - friends with msscribe, visiting the sites she did, reading the same fics she did, keeping up with her journal every day - I'm fairly sure that I would have been one of those fooled. I'm fairly sure that I would have blindly followed.

Why?

Because, as peachespig said much better than I will, msscribe latched onto people's prejudices and assumptions about certain types of people. If someone on my flist claimed to be trolled by an ignorant Christian fundamentalist, I would have accepted it without question. This is what she used to great effect. Her anti-gay, stupid, flame-baiting "Kentucky Fried Christians" were easy, believable targets.

So.... yeah, I think I would have fallen for it. That makes me ashamed of myself not only as a person, but as a Christian. The "life lesson" I intend to draw from this debacle is to be much more careful about jumping to conclusions about certain types of people. I think we all do it to some extent with some group, whether it's race, social class, country, political party, or even something as silly as R/H vs. H/H.

To quote Wayne Campbell in that most artful of classics, Wayne's World - with tongue in cheek and perhaps too much optimism - "Isn't it great that we're all better people?" Seriously, I'm going to try to be.