analysis of BRTD

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I just worked 10 hours, I don't want to try to analyze this now, bleh. Later.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The only thing I find weird about BRTD is that he loves or hates states and counties based on whether or not they voted for Obama.  He seems to disregard other factors in those states and counties.

Yet, since he hates the Catholic Church, he throws that logic out the window and completely ignores that the majority of Catholics voted for Obama and the majority of Protestants voted for McCain.

Let's just have some consistency here.

I think he would argue there are different kinds of Protestants: the good ones who probably voted Obama, and the Evangelicals who obviously voted for McCain. Also keep in mind the hard core Catholics probably voted McCain. I can name 3 of my closer friends in Canada who supported McCain, and they were Catholic.  True Catholics are pro-life, and would never vote for a pro-life candidate.

That is true. In Minnesota McCain won Catholics, but Obama won non-evangelical Protestants (and by a lot.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

OK now that I finally figured out the OP, here are some things I have changed my mind on (age when I did in parantheses):

Emo (16)
Christianity (18)
Hugo Chavez (23)
opebo (20)
Hillary Clinton (25)
Straha (23)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You oversimplified Christianity greatly, and a few things I've said to you on AIM after a bit of drinking hardly completely summarize my outlook throughout life.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The only thing I find weird about BRTD is that he loves or hates states and counties based on whether or not they voted for Obama.  He seems to disregard other factors in those states and counties.

Yet, since he hates the Catholic Church, he throws that logic out the window and completely ignores that the majority of Catholics voted for Obama and the majority of Protestants voted for McCain.

Let's just have some consistency here.

I think he would argue there are different kinds of Protestants: the good ones who probably voted Obama, and the Evangelicals who obviously voted for McCain.

Regardless, he doesn't make exceptions for certain counties in Hilllary or McCain states, or certain precincts in Hillary or McCain counties, so it's not consistent for him to start splitting liberal Protestants and conservative Protestants...might as well look at liberal Catholics and conservative Catholics as well.

The difference is that the Catholic church has a centralized heirarchy that all churches are expected to follow, Protestants are anything but unified. You can't really split Catholics because really any liberal Catholic is just ignoring the church and basically being a bad Catholic. But there's hordes of different Protestant groups as different as night and day, so lumping them together is pointless. And the governing system of states is more similar to the Catholic church, even if you're in a liberal county in a conservative state, you're still being ruled by the conservative state government, the Protestant analogy would be a hypothetical non-existant state where most law and governance are set at the county level.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I wonder how he feels about a Catholic who was loyal to Britain?

No problem with them, not a terrorist. Of course plenty of such people were murdered by the IRA.

His hatred of Catholicism is so extreme that I'm almost surprised that his two votes for president (04 and 08) have been for a ticket that included a Catholic over a ticket of two Protestants.

Uh, because no one actually votes on that type of stuff? If that was all I cared about I should LOVE Tim Pawlenty for being an ex-Catholic Lutheran (Much like my former Congressman Tim Walz I should note) and Phil should hate him. Clearly not the case.

His hatred of Catholicism is so extreme that I'm almost surprised that his two votes for president (04 and 08) have been for a ticket that included a Catholic over a ticket of two Protestants.

Don't forget that he would have voted Democratic in 1928.

Actually both candidates that year were pretty awful for reasons that had nothing to do with religion. I would've still voted for Smith though because of Prohibition.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

OK now that I finally figured out the OP, here are some things I have changed my mind on (age when I did in parantheses):

Emo (16)
Christianity (18)
Hugo Chavez (23)
opebo (20)
Hillary Clinton (25)
Straha (23)

What was your opinion of emo when you were 16?

When I first heard it I thought it was mostly just noise and couldn't stand the vocals.