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It has been disheartening watching the news and reading the commentariat since the election. If I hear one more host or analyst speak of his own faith.... It is painful to see people detouring their analyses through the framework of "What Would Jesus Do?"
Mr. Michael Kinsley, in his column, takes on the charge that liberals have gotten their just desserts for being elitist and arrogant. We know how humble and unassuming conservative Evangelicals can be in the political field.
"There's just one little request I have. If it's not too much trouble, of course. Call me profoundly misguided if you want. Call me immoral if you must. But could you please stop calling me arrogant and elitist?
"I mean, look at it this way. (If you don't mind, that is.) It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose abortion and where gay relationships have full civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values -- as deplorable as I'm sure they are -- don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same gender, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?
"We on my side of the great divide don't, for the most part, believe that our values are direct orders from God. We don't claim that they are immutable and beyond argument. We are, if anything, crippled by reason and open-mindedness, by a desire to persuade rather than insist. Which philosophy is more elitist? Which is more contemptuous of people who disagree?"
-- "Am I Blue?" by Michael Kinsley for The Washington Post
Closing on an administrative note, Monk is now going to attempt his first computer clean-up with some defragging. Although his fears usually prove to be grossly exaggerated, don't be surprised if Monk goes dark for some time to come... forever?
Just in case, it's been fun! 'bye!
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It has been disheartening watching the news and reading the commentariat since the election. If I hear one more host or analyst speak of his own faith.... It is painful to see people detouring their analyses through the framework of "What Would Jesus Do?"
Mr. Michael Kinsley, in his column, takes on the charge that liberals have gotten their just desserts for being elitist and arrogant. We know how humble and unassuming conservative Evangelicals can be in the political field.
"There's just one little request I have. If it's not too much trouble, of course. Call me profoundly misguided if you want. Call me immoral if you must. But could you please stop calling me arrogant and elitist?
"I mean, look at it this way. (If you don't mind, that is.) It's true that people on my side of the divide want to live in a society where women are free to choose abortion and where gay relationships have full civil equality with straight ones. And you want to live in a society where the opposite is true. These are some of those conflicting values everyone is talking about. But at least my values -- as deplorable as I'm sure they are -- don't involve any direct imposition on you. We don't want to force you to have an abortion or to marry someone of the same gender, whereas you do want to close out those possibilities for us. Which is more arrogant?
"We on my side of the great divide don't, for the most part, believe that our values are direct orders from God. We don't claim that they are immutable and beyond argument. We are, if anything, crippled by reason and open-mindedness, by a desire to persuade rather than insist. Which philosophy is more elitist? Which is more contemptuous of people who disagree?"
-- "Am I Blue?" by Michael Kinsley for The Washington Post
Closing on an administrative note, Monk is now going to attempt his first computer clean-up with some defragging. Although his fears usually prove to be grossly exaggerated, don't be surprised if Monk goes dark for some time to come... forever?
Just in case, it's been fun! 'bye!
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