One of My Most Vicious Online Trolls Is a Pastor In Rural Saskatchewan
A Lutheran pastor, connected to the Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Regina... just like Jesus commanded. #theLordswork
My grandparents are buried in a Lutheran cemetery.
That’s what crossed my mind, years ago, during a disturbing interaction on Twitter with a Saskatchewan man and Lutheran pastor named Todd Guggenmos.
His Tweets were insulting, vile and crude. His level of vitriol ratcheted every time anyone challenged his hostile and aggressive behaviour, which he freely displayed under his own name and seemingly without any concern over how he was being perceived.
My interactions with him were bad enough that I blocked him right away. Then, beyond hearing from time to time the Reverend had other heinous interactions with Saskatchewan residents online, I never thought about him again.
Til a couple days ago.
The story begins a few years ago, when an account popped up on Twitter called @NotTammyR. As the name suggests, it was an account dedicated to harassing me online.
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