re: #67 Rocky-in-Connecticut

“Not in the World” is a typically Southern Christian Fundamentalist trope I am very familiar with having grown up in that subculture.

In their specific belief system, as a Christian you are supposed to separate yourself from “the world” and only concern yourself about JEEZUS… except for the part about acquiring as much $$$ money as possible. Then you are free to involve yourself with “the world” at will.

What it is actually is a fundamental cornerstone of a belief system based on fear. Fear of change, fear of outside competition, fear of competing ideologies, and fear of Science.

It’s the usual dichotomy in fundie thinking. To not “be in the world” but at the same time extract money from it, so you can live apart from the world. Or something.

If KD really wanted to be outside the world, she wouldn’t be working as a public servant, dealing with those “in-worlders,” and meddling with their lives.

H as in hypocrite.