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PJmedia ^ | 9/17/12 | Andrew Klavan

Posted on 09/17/2012 8:25:48 AM PDT by Evil Slayer

The people who booed the God of love, now rush to the defense of a hateful Allah. The people who pissed on the Christ of redemption, now bewail the hurt feelings of a damnable Islam. The people who denounced the death of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, now make rationalizations as brown-shirted cops drag a man from his home at midnight for the crime of posting a video on YouTube.

I’m sorrowful, but I confess I’m not surprised.

Over the course of time, I have seen many people ruin and waste their lives. Good people, smart people, talented people who sacrificed the gift of existence to drugs, alcohol, bitterness, self-abuse, fear and anger. In every case, always, I felt the root cause was unacknowledged shame.

At some point, these people had come to confront — as we all must — their cowardice, their weakness, their dishonesty, or their foolishness. Unable to accept the pain of an honest assessment of their brokenness, they turned their eyes away and practiced denial instead. In an attempt to avoid the agony of their shame indefinitely, they created whole new philosophies of life. If, for instance, they had backed down when they should have stood up, they declared nothing was worth fighting for. If they lied when they should’ve spoken true, they declared truth was an illusion. If they succumbed to desire when they should have resisted, they decided continence was a game for puritans and fools.

In order to feel justified within this new philosophy, they not only had to continue in the bad behavior that shamed them in the first place, they had to condemn any good behavior that held the mirror up to their secret self-disgust. This always involved them in blatant self-contradiction. The person who believed there was no truth

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1 posted on 09/17/2012 8:25:49 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
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To: Evil Slayer

They’re also the same people who aggressively protest the execution of a murderer, yet are perfectly ok with the murder of an innocent unborn. Strange people we’re dealing with here.


2 posted on 09/17/2012 8:31:38 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Evil Slayer

Superb Klavan!


3 posted on 09/17/2012 8:39:31 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Evil Slayer

The bottom line... Liberals know they can get away with pushing Christians around because they know Christians won’t blow up city buses, night clubs and shopping malls or fly planes into buildings. In one word... cowards.


4 posted on 09/17/2012 8:39:57 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Evil Slayer

wow! thanks for posting this.
Klavan is awesome!
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this is the most powerful sentence i’ve seen all month!
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“The people who booed the God of love, now rush to the defense of a hateful Allah.”


5 posted on 09/17/2012 8:50:22 AM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Evil Slayer

Religious differences in a nutshell.

In Christianity, God died so mankind can get to heaven.

In Islam, mankind must die for Allah if mankind is to get to paradise.


6 posted on 09/17/2012 8:51:16 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ETL

Not strange but sick. These are the willing fools who have led humanity into every depravity.

Liberals decry every wayward Christian as hypocrit but commit the same offenses in the name of tolerance.

Liberals are tolerant of evil but not of good.

Liberals celebrate diversity that is nasty but not what is lovely.

Liberals justify their depravity with appeals to their right to do as they please but deny those same rights to patriots who insist upon the primacy of the Constitution.

Liberals are sick unto death with the terminal disease of liberalism.


7 posted on 09/17/2012 8:52:11 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: Evil Slayer

Great insight into the evils of “multiculturalism” and this intentional destruction of our Judeo-Christian Ethics for the Muslim Ethics of lying, cheating, killing, sodomy, hating women, etc.

Through thousands of years of philosophy, we know what works and doesn’t work for civil societies. To see the insane Leftists dump all Virtue in the name of “freedom”—is to throw away that very freedom.

All the Founders stated the need for promoting “public Virtue” for Freedom in a Republic. Leftists intentionally are undermining Virtue-—promoting Vice to children and forcing it through laws—to corrupt and destroy what created the most successful, just, and free country in the history of the world. Their intent is for a Marxist one-world government.

America as we have known her—has to be destroyed for that to happen. The cultural Marxists in the 30’s started attacking “Virtue” and Christianity through all of our institutions—esp. schools and media, to take us down the road to Sodom, to make sure we have no concept of Virtue and Justice. Sexualization of our children in the schools, corrupts them and removes the Christian Ethics which made up the most free and productive civilization in the world. It removes Virtue and instills the morals of muslims: cheating, lying, killing, stealing, promiscuity, serial polygamy, hating other groups/men/women/babies/races, and emboldens their given the right to destroy/kill/subjugate them, etc.)

In other words, dignity of mankind is removed when you remove the judeo-Christian Ethics. No other system of beliefs have been so successful and Just for creation of a civil society.


8 posted on 09/17/2012 8:55:08 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Evil Slayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKerbOi_mrI&feature=player_embedded


9 posted on 09/17/2012 8:57:58 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Evil Slayer

Well thought out and well written.


10 posted on 09/17/2012 10:25:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Evil Slayer

Wow. This is really well written.


11 posted on 09/17/2012 9:47:27 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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