Some of the more "Christian" (read dominionist-leaning) people have become far more nasty and offensive.  I've heard it expressed that evil won in the US- and they accuse us of supporting evil and the devil.  Their "trigger" is much more sensitive- and I've seen "Christian" bloggers go off on comments that were entirely innocuous and not even connected to the election!

Friends from overseas are rejoicing in the possibility of change- and have expressed being puzzled and offended by the angry American "Christians" they encounter who are getting very nasty.

Any comments about Palin are met with an attitude of "the elections are over- stop beating up the nice lady!!!" yet they constantly are on the offensive- less than a couple of weeks later- against liberals and Obama.  I swear I think some of these people think Pain walks on water!  They certainly have expressed the attitude that she's the best candidate to come along in THEIR lifetime!  Anything that is the truth about the lady is met with "tin-hatter!" and worse, even if you provide links to the evidence.  (NOTE: In a couple of cases, I was "talking" with someone I knew- and the "Christian" broke in with those sorts of insults.)

I am more in agreement with the other posters who say that the public discourse needs to be changed.  I also wonder just what is being said in the churches that the people I've encountered go to- because they do all seem to be spouting from the same playbook.  It is very disturbing to me that because their candidate didn't get elected, they are working on polarizing this country even more.  Now, I've heard rather nasty things said about the (Religious Right/dominionists/fundamentalists) and while I agree with the sentiments, at the same time I do think that the public discourse needs to be changed.  I doubt that anything we do will change the discourse directed at us, but we do need to find a way to get the tone softened without compromising with something we totally disagree with.

I might add that I don't go to conservative or dominionist blogs.  The few blogs I've gone to are progressive/liberal, neutral, or about non-religious subjects.  Yet these things have been observed on those blogs and in, as a friend of mine puts it- the "meat world" (in stores, waiting lines, public areas at school, and other areas).  I don't go to conservative/dominionist blogs and insult them (and I would be angry at any liberal who did)- and I wish they would stop doing that to us.

Anyone who thinks the "Religious Right" is in decline should come to central Florida and listen to the public discourse on the streets and really examine the talk on the blogs.   I tell you- it's getting a bit scary!  (And don't forget that there are many times more threats against THIS President-elect than there were against others in the past!)