On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 6:58:31 PM UTC-4, palsing wrote:

Well, I've heard way more of Jackson and Sharpton than I've ever wanted to
hear,

What kind of TV or radio do you own? Most of the ones I've seen have a knob, or a remote, that allows you to either change the station, turn down the volume, or turn off the device entirely. RTFM.

and I can assure you that I've never darkened the doorstep of an evangelical
meeting :)

So what's your excuse for the darkening the doorstep of this newsgroup?