re: #265 Shiplord Kirel

The Air Force Academy was there first (since 1958) so it might be more appropriate to move the fundies back to Texas or Alabama or wherever the hell they came from.
It is a mystery to me how Colorado Springs got to be such a fundy town. I lived there in the 50s and 60s, when it was a smallish (1960 pop. ca. 70,000) military and tourist community. My mother attended one of the few Southern Baptist churches. I remember her pastor once saying, “It’s not like Texas, where there is a Baptist church on every corner.” I was familiar with fire and brimstone fundyism, from our occasional visits to family in Texas, and thought it very odd and backward. There were a lot Mormons and Catholics there, but fundamentalists were few and far between and were regarded mostly as southern interlopers.

The Springs’ transition to a veritable Holy Roller Empire might have something to do with the city’s explosive growth over the intervening decades (a factor of 7 in 50 years) but I am not sure how that might work. My brother was born there and still lives there. He says it is quite rare for someone his age (56) to be an actual native of the place.

What transformed Colorado Springs from nice little town into a Holy Roller Empire was Family Research Institute and Focus on the Family moving in.