• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    About ten years ago, I worked for a small firm where most of the partners attended this very church.

    One of the reasons I left was that I felt completely out of place as they integrated their religion into the office culture.

    When I left, the managing partner would send me handwritten letters for YEARS effectively telling me that while I had chosen damnation for myself, I owed it to my daughter to have the opportunity for salvation by attending this specific gateway Church in Southlake.

    If I didn’t have so much disdain and bitterness, I’d be tempted to send him this article.

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      5 months ago

      I owed it to my daughter

      Found why they were so upset you left.

      Good thing you did, before something happened to her.

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      5 months ago

      God, I hate Southlake.

      I do wish I could go back to hating them just because of their smarmy spoiled football team.

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        God I was going to UNT football games when Todd Dodge was there. It seemed like all of Southlake was attending those games. I hate him with a white hot intensity. I hate his acolytes orders of magnitude more.

        The few times I’ve been through Southlake, I felt like a needed a shower with some 36 grit sandpaper as a loofa.

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          Based on what I recall of his tenure at UNT, I doubt they stuck it out for very long. I think his kid is the head coach at Carroll now.

          Hell, it’s not even like I live someplace that’s terribly different from Southlake, but the gusto with which that town throws itself into toxic rich people shit is impressively awful. I understand there’s finally a bit of a quiet counter-movement now that the chickens are coming home to roost.