I had a good laugh at the comments on this post, Rechelle Unplugged lampooning The Pioneer Woman — buried in the comments was a link to this post. Apparently the old homeschooling blogger there (paid to post on PW) got into trouble with Ree for generalizing Ree’s readers as right wing Christians.

BUT THEY ARE, BLANCHE. THEY ARE. There is no crime in that. Heck, there has to be some place for them to go that is in the mainstream. But this is how it is – when your whole readership picks the Bible as their number one favorite book? Um, er, um…them facts is them facts.

You pay a big price for not being that person. Well, I suppose you could be Dooce, who sits mostly on the opposite world of Ree — Dooce talks politics and religion, Ree does not. Both are very popular and successful. They both have their charms and their singularly irritating qualities. But make no mistake – one is Sarah Palin’s world, and the other is Rachel Maddow’s.

The poor, nice, homeschooling blogger lady, who didn’t even put up the lines about Ree’s readers being right wing Christians, still had this happen to her:

Ree put the post up on Thursday night and when I opened my laptop on Friday morning, my inbox was filled with hate mail assuring me that I was going to hell, was a horrible parent, a scourge to the Pioneer Woman’s blog and just about everything but a child of God. The Women’s Colony, this blog, had been hijacked by internet trolls who left an enormous amount of cruel comments and scripture quotes from what seemed close to 77% of the Bible.

“Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.” (Rev. 12: 9)

“Put on all the armor that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the Devil’s evil tricks. For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers of this dark age.” (Eph. 6: 11-12)

“Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Be firm in your faith and resist him.” (1 Peter 5: 8-9)

And seriously, more:

And in the interest of full disclosure, I had some atheists come after me, too. They resented that I was shoving religion down my kids’ throats.

Honestly, it was like a harmonic convergence of halfwits.

I’d like to take a moment to thank the Jews for leaving me alone.

One commenter said she had watched some of my videos and that I was obviously a foul mouthed alcoholic who, get this, had to drink to get through the Christmas holidays, and that I had some serious mental problems.

All true…and somehow it helped to know at least one reader really “got” me.

By Saturday, I was losing it, so I put up a post requesting that anyone who had issues they wanted to discuss that had nothing to do with content on the Women’s Colony please quit leaving comments on the blog and just email me directly. I gave out both my email addresses and I promised to respond politely to each and every one. Plenty of people emailed (and I did write them all back—except for a moronathon named Jan Westemeier who told me she was shocked to read I was only 42 because I looked 60 and that I need to dye my hair and get new glasses and aspire to look like Courtney Cox because she’s 42 and LOOK AT HER!) but the comments on the blog continued.

Late Saturday night, we received two phone calls. One from a woman damning me to hell and the other from a guy quoting some gibberish from Saint Anthony…I didn’t really get the gist of his point, because I hung up on his Jesus, Mary and Joseph loving ass. I don’t use my last name on this blog (though most readers know it), but apparently some sleuthy readers looked into my children’s Facebook information and took more opportunities to introduce them to the path of righteousness and, bless their hearts, pray for my kids’ souls. It was at this point that I started to feel fear. I took the phone off the hook.

Yeah, um, wow? Seriously? Wow. If I were Ree, no matter how much money I was making, I wouldn’t want this to be my readership. Moreover, now I can see why Ree has to be so bland and down the middle on everything. Who wants this kind of treatment? I am suddenly grateful for being completely obscure.

Holy hysterical zealots, Batman. Meanwhile, if you’d like to read a blog that is a little more real and a little less delusional, check out Rechelle Unplugged.