[nathanbedford]

To refine my previous comment:

A conversion experience actually converts the way one sees the world. An Islamicist does not see the world the way you and I do; he filters it through the closed loop of his faith. So it is not so much that he rejects Western culture, he simply does not have room for it because he is invested in sharia.

It is possible that a Christian convert now sees the incessant, often grubby, squabbles within the Beltway as something utterly irrelevant to a new reality. The daily stuff that occupies us here on Free Republic is all beside the point.

The new reality is not strictly anti-Semitism or anti-Americanism or pro-Russian bias, but a judgment of the world according to a new paradigm.

[Fireone]

“An Islamicist does not see the world the way you and I do; he filters it through the closed loop of his faith. So it is not so much that he rejects Western culture, he simply does not have room for it because he is invested in sharia.”

A racist does not see the world the way you and I do; he filters it through the closed loop of his race. So it is not so much that he rejects Western culture, he simply does not have room for it because he is invested in racism.
Narrow mindedness comes in many flavors.

[Danie_2023]

“”The new reality is not strictly anti-Semitism or anti-Americanism or pro-Russian bias, but a judgment of the world according to a new paradigm.””

A new paradigm? Please explain what you mean by that, and if it’s what I think you mean, how it is “new”.

Carlson was brought up in a religious family (grandfather was a priest, Episcopalian). So how would his judgment of the world be “new”. I don’t know about any differences re: the Episcopal faith, but I can’t imagine it being all that different that Carlson would have to have a “religious conversion” to see the world as it really is. So please elaborate.

It sounds like you’re giving Carlson a huge benefit of the doubt here, and that is the very definition of a Christian attitude. Congrats on that. But I still don’t trust him. Can’t pin it down, but something just doesn’t seem ‘right’ to me with him.