Everyone at my parent's church is now on Facebook. There's a public facebook group for them, and they've been friending each other as well. But the current US election is causing a lot of nasty, nasty friction between people.

I'm sure a lot of them never saw this coming, because they thought the people they went to church with all agreed with them on everything. This is because what they were seeing all the time was people's church personalities. It is not that everyone was being hypocritical but that when you only see people a couple of days a week at most, you only bother to show them one face, to keep the peace or because you just don't have time, it didn't seem important, whatever. You know about where people tend to stand on things, but laws and social convention prevent the congregation from getting too into it, and that church at least, was one that always toed the line when it came to the law about politics in the pulpit.

But now, thanks to the miracle of Facebook, everyone's discovering what everyone else is *really* like. And this election is really dividing the congregation.

There are, as you might assume, *a lot* of conservatives, who are almost purposely antagonizng the handful of Obama voters. They are mostly of a certain age group, but they're acting as childishly as the litters of children they keep popping out. You know, posting pointed notifications like "Ann is wondering whatever happened to morality?" or "Tom wants to know why capitalism is dead in America". They also post Youtube stuff that is frequently inaccurate or just plain wrong- like a clip from Obama's *Senate* campaign and either claiming or just not understanding, that when he admits he doesn't have much experience, he's doing so in a clip that is a few years old. One of the Obama people tried to educate them and they only got nastier as a result.

One woman has been saying such ridiculous stuff that my sister admitted to me that she was thinking "You should be glad my sister's not on Facebook, she would rip you a new one.

Hahhaa. I kinda would have. And I don't even care, because I don't go to that church anymore so I *don't* have to face them on Sunday. I can tell people off like they have never been told off before. I'm planning to join Facebook anyway, although I think if I do say anything I'll try to tone it down and tailor it to the audience. No yelling at anyone unless they insult me first- just seemingly random and thoughtful posts that look like they're coming from someone who had no idea (big, inoccent eyes) that anyone was fighting over this.

My dad posted and said to stop fighting.
This other guy who I had pegged as a hardline scary type actually gave a speech recently telling people to stop fighting.
Another guy (who is one of the young adults so it's not just the old dudes) said stop fighting.
The pastor said to quit it.

But it just keeps getting worse. What disappoints me the most is how cliched it all is. Not only would most non or ex Christians just assume this is the way it'd go down but *I'm* sadly not even surprised. Which is, you know, why I don't go to that church anymore.