My step-sister who goes to school in Utah came down with a bad infection and was very seriously ill, to the point where my mother and step-father told me she may not make it. After a week in the hospital, she is doing better, but I went to my email inbox to find that I was CC'd on the following email from my step-father - needless to say he's one of the F.A.R.M.S cronies and what I consider to be a Mormon Blowhard:
I want to ask him why God decided to give this poor girl such a horrible disease, or why the priesthood blessings didn't cure her outright, and so on...
This was the beginning. This was the humiliation given through GoodK's use of a tragic and delicate time in the life of this family, and the pulling together of this family through the Church and Gospel in support of a fallen family member as a foil for his own ugly bigotries and resentments, and as a chance to kick this family in the teeth from their flank regarding, specifically, the Gospel being the central organizing principle of their support of and hope for that sick family member.
I considered this beneath contempt then, and still do today.
Here was my original reaction to this post:
...This post is both too facile and too conspicuously evil in its ground and intent to do any justice to by way of refutation.
I stand by this today and, given GoodK's most recent behavior regarding DCP, this position seems vindicated indeed.
I also said this:
It takes evil--truly pitiable evil--to turn this mans love, concern, and compassion for another and his use of his Priesthood to bless and comfort, into a disreputable action and the person himself into a "blowhard".
Abject, Stygian evil.
I stand by this statement as well. I don't know GoodK, beyond what I've experienced of him in this forum, but no matter who it may have been, this kind of behavior, which GoodK and his sycophants here have endeavored to sugarcoat, whitewash, explain away, and defend, remains what it is. But of course, within the angry exmo world, where no morality or ethics of any kind exists to dampen or restrict such attitudes or behavior, we have what we receive.
Bob Crockett than posted the following:
Shame on you for anonymously injuring your family in its very darkest hour. I pray for them. I pray that you will soften your heart.
This expresses precisely my immediate and initial reaction to GoodK's post. You know, its the kind of thing Bill Maher would put in a movie attacking religion; a bedside smear against God and religion as family members gathered around and prayed for a loved one, and it would be thought of as a very clever, smarmy groin kick.
Those who have circled the wagons around GoodK in this forum partake of the opprobrium attached to him for this behavior.
But GoodK was just warming up. Here was his response to Bob's reaction:
Actually, Bob, I wasn't the one doing the injuring.
It is ridiculous to give credit to God for healing a disease he gave to someone in the first place.
So here, GoodK makes plain the intention of the post: to attack the religion of his family at a time of uncertainty and sorrow and around which the family was gathering for hope and comfort. We have here, to make it clearer, in GoodK's own words, the admittance that the intent was to humiliate the family; to attack their faith at a vulnerable time.
Yet again, Bob's reaction was the rather obvious psychological and intellectual reaction one would expect in such a situation:
It is unreasonable to make fun, anonymously, of your step-father and your mother when they rather need your support and love. Again, I hope your heart will be softened.
What would GoodK, or anyone else expect under the conditions of such an obvious and mean spirited provocation?
Bob continued, and we have a preview of GoodK's modus operandi and a shape of things to come:
I only object to the post in that it comes from a family member poking fun at the rest of the family for a real terrible problem they are going through. I think the milk of human kindness, whether one is Muslim or atheist, would require some respect for privacy and some compassion at this time. The family GoodK pokes fun at is known by hundreds of people.
In a PM to me GoodK threatened to start posting personal information about my family if I told his/her step-father about what is being said about the family here. I can't imagine any member of that family resorting to extortion so I doubt GoodK is who he/she says he/she is. I have met the kids and they are the greatest.
GoodK immediately begins making private threats after publically posting an insulting and cruel attack on this own family's religion in time of sickness.
How typical of this place. How typical of the exmo mindset and ethical structure. Anonymous posters slash and burn, hack and slay, and then cry "You'd better not tell!"
GoodK had a succinct and yet again revealing response:
I find it foul and disgusting to recieve a newsbulletin about how she has been healed through the power of prayer and the priesthood, as if God would have let her die if my family happened to pick the wrong religion.
Kiss my ass Bob.
GoodK's merry maids immediately fired up the spin machine and began the attempted re-framing of reality. Words and phrases we thought we understood in the English language came under withering assault.
This entire thing is so sick, so petty, and so, so, well...so exmo, that it freezes the soul.
