# Well, what are you waiting for? Get the hell outta here! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839 "2004-11-15T10:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/1 "2004-11-15T10:52:24Z")
[Christian Exodus](http://christianexodus.org/) > [@Crazy Fundies](#): > > [ChristianExodus.org](http://ChristianExodus.org) is coordinating the move of thousands of Christians to South Carolina for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government. It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and the efforts of Christian activism to restore our Godly republic have proven futile over the past three decades. The time has come for Christians to withdraw our consent from the current federal government and re-introduce the Christian principles once so predominant in America to a sovereign State like South Carolina. Say bye-bye now! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! But really, wouldn’t this solve everything? Let the fundamentalists found their own nation-state, and leave the rest of us (that includes rational Christians, people of other faiths, and nontheists) alone. Hate to sacrifice a state that has such nice scenery, but oh well, it’s for progress. We can even have amicable relations with South Christolina, just so long as they all stay on their own side of the border. Of course, we will grant asylum to any and all non-wackjob South Carolinians who wish to escape their oppressive government. It’s the American thing to do. So yeah, who wants to help the Christian Exodus cause? They’ve got my support! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/2 "2004-11-15T10:58:58Z")
> [@](#): > > · Why was South Carolina chosen? > > 1. It has no dominant liberal urban centers. > 2. It has mountains. Damn those Christians and their logic :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/3 "2004-11-15T11:07:28Z")
Haven’t read much but South Caroline appears to be only a tentative suggestion (“to a sovereign State like South Carolina”). Who knows, perhaps they end up heading for, say Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/4 "2004-11-15T11:08:52Z")
> [@continuity eror](#): > > [Christian Exodus](http://christianexodus.org/) > > Say bye-bye now! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! > > But really, wouldn’t this solve everything? Let the fundamentalists found their own nation-state, and leave the rest of us (that includes rational Christians, people of other faiths, and nontheists) alone. Hate to sacrifice a state that has such nice scenery, but oh well, it’s for progress. We can even have amicable relations with South Christolina, just so long as they all stay on their own side of the border. Of course, we will grant asylum to any and all non-wackjob South Carolinians who wish to escape their oppressive government. It’s the American thing to do. > > So yeah, who wants to help the Christian Exodus cause? They’ve got my support! South Carolina has more than its share of oppresively poor who live in hovels and cannot afford to move. Wishing this on them is cruel to the extreme. The American thing to do is to have courage and exercise vigilance. At least, it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/5 "2004-11-15T11:12:38Z")
What are you doing in the southern US, Liberal? This is very confusing. Aren’t you supposed to live in New Hampshire? ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/6 "2004-11-15T11:26:57Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > South Carolina has more than its share of oppresively poor who live in hovels and cannot afford to move. Asylum seekers would be provided a relocation stipend and hooked up with a job upon defection to the Godless States of America. We’d also sponsor humanitarian missions into SC, so we can provide aid, comfort, and sanity to those people trapped there. They’d never found their nation in Pennsylvania; just look how sinful Philadelphia is! And it’s only a few hours away from NYC, which is the sin capital of the world after Las Vegas and San Francisco. Although there are parts of western PA that wouldn’t be averse to the Christian Exodus setting down roots here. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/7 "2004-11-15T11:30:11Z")
> [@](#): > > It is evident that the U.S. Constitution has been abandoned under our current federal system, and the efforts of Christian activism to restore our Godly republic have proven futile over the past three decades. Maybe God isn’t really on your side of the fight… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/8 "2004-11-15T11:30:59Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > What are you doing in the southern US, Liberal? This is very confusing. Aren’t you supposed to live in New Hampshire? Thank you, no. The Yankees are a bit too barbaric for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![griffen2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce7236/32.png) [@griffen2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffen2)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/9 "2004-11-15T11:31:37Z")
Check their message board. These people are nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/10 "2004-11-15T11:34:06Z")
> [@continuity eror](#): > > Asylum seekers would be provided a relocation stipend and hooked up with a job upon defection to the Godless States of America. We’d also sponsor humanitarian missions into SC, so we can provide aid, comfort, and sanity to those people trapped there. What’s this “we” shit, Kimosabe? I hope you mean volunteers; otherwise, I’ll be inclined to work underground for the Exodus. At least a man can still sin in private, but no man can survive the Pickpocket Pirhannas. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/11 "2004-11-15T12:01:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Check their message board. These people are nuts. That would be thew _a priori_ assumption (backed up with extensive evidence, of course). I do love the way that they “cite” three cases involving school prayer while ignoring the fact that the judiciary came down _on their side of the argument_ in the two elementary school cases and in the high school case, the judge is quoted entirely out of context. More examples of Nine Commandment Christians. (_Prohibitions against bearing false witness will be suspended until we can establish God’s country_.) ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/12 "2004-11-15T12:06:13Z")
_shrug_ I’m as much a “liberal-pinko socialist-commie” as the next godless heathen, but I for one, wish them the best of luck. Hell, I’ll personally offer to help pack up any Texans wishing to move to the United State of Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/13 "2004-11-15T12:11:30Z")
Those poor S. Carolinans. Way to fuck up a state people. But hey, the plus side to all this is at least people from Arkansas will have somebody to make fun of now… /kidding ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/14 "2004-11-15T12:13:21Z")
Heh…so I was reading their message board…um…wow. My IQ dropped about 30 points after only 15 minutes of reading. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/15 "2004-11-15T12:16:01Z")
Maybe they should set their sights on Rhode Island. They could overrun that state in a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/16 "2004-11-15T12:19:15Z")
Hmmm, don’t some of the white supremacists on [Stormfront.org](http://Stormfront.org) advocate separatism as well? Would their state border North Christolina? How many different countries do we need, anyway? At the very least, I suggest that to keep the peace we may need to break this country down at least as far as: Cokeylvania New Pepsishire Windows Island Macintoshaware Daleearnhartia Jeffgordonigan Aw, hell, it’s too complicated. How 'bout this: “One individual, one sovereign state”? Yeah, that’s the ticket. That way everyone could grow up to be President. Think of all the intreresting designs for currency! Twenty years from know, Og willing: “Welcome to El\_Kabongia. Please show your passport to the nice lady, and deposit your tribute in the bin provided. Enjoy your stay in my guest bedroom.” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/17 "2004-11-15T12:28:40Z")
Highly amusing, but by their own admission, _Evangelical Christians are losing_. From the website: > [@](#): > > Perhaps the statistic that 88% of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18 never to return is indicative of our prowess at being “salt and light” ([http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates94.html](http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates94.html)). No, the evidence is clear: most American “Christians” have not been “salt and light” and demonstrate no desire to become so. That apparently comes from > [@](#): > > the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported to the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention that 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return Yeehaw! Us godless heathens are winning the fight against the red states! ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/18 "2004-11-15T12:46:04Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > Yeehaw! Us godless heathens are winning the fight against the red states! Actually (and thankfully), [you are not.](http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/19 "2004-11-15T13:10:13Z")
Don’t these people believe in suffering for their faith, piety through pain and whatnot. South Carolina is far too cozy a state for them to be able to adequately prove themselves. Let’s give 'em Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839/20 "2004-11-15T13:47:35Z")
Give 'em Guam. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-what-are-you-waiting-for-get-the-hell-outta-here/274839.md?page=2)