Love how he tries to make himself look like slightly less of a bigot by claiming he only really has issues with "RW Fundynut religion." Then again, I'd imagine according to his definitions, all Christians who earnestly believe in Jesus and the Bible are automatically "RW Fundynuts."
Hey TMN,
I'm a youth director at a church, and I live in a small apartment. The senior pastor I answer to lives in a small but tasteful parsonage. Only a select few pastors make enough money to have "Private jets."
Bob's backstory, which he loves to tell, is that he went to Catholic schools for his entire education. Because he is a twisted, bitter old fool who can't even keep both of his feet attached, he feels entitled to conflate all religions into a single mass that somehow sticks in his craw. Absent from any of his screeds is any reference to Islam, of course, since in addition to the character traits I listed above, Bob Banzin is a coward.
As a Banzin aficionado (maybe I'm just an enthusiast, though), I suspect that there is more at play. I suspect that although Bob is an old man, he is actually a child. His wife probably insists that he go to church each Sunday, and rather than confront her, he confronts everyone else. The hour he spends at Mass each Sunday offends his sense of leisure to the degree that anything non-secular becomes "fundy," and anyone who avails himself of religion is a "GOPPER" or a "fundy," or both.
Which makes Bob's alter ego a cousin to Walter Mitty. Walter DUmmy. Someone who doesn't daydream of greatness, but someone who daydreams of misery and rancor and threats and anything else that would boil any man's blood and cause a limb to seek refuge away from its host.
There are three spots left for DOTY. I think my DUmmy Xmas wishes may be coming true.
