Gut Check: Your Own Personal Blasphemy

Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | February 9, 2015 | Greg Gutfeld

[2ndDivisionVet]

The common definition of blasphemy is simple: an affront to faith or belief, an offense to god or what you believe to be spiritually sacred.

This definition has widened, however, to encompass truly anything you hold sacred.

No longer just a religious term, people apply blasphemy to language about gender, social issues, climate, pets, their heroes, their countries, even their health practices, favorite bands or teams.

Mind you, this is different from the faux outrage I wrote an entire book about (see the delightful The Joy of Hate), in which people trump up phony anger based on assorted violations of modern politically correct thought. That kind of outrage is more a hobby for the lonely or aimless – something to do to bide time until the crushing weight of one’s own existence forces them to do something else.

No, I am now referring to a sincere anger, a real madness over real and perceived slights. It’s the next level of outrage, and it’s starting to creep the hell out of me.

How did this new blasphemy first present itself to me?

I noticed it first when a person said to me, “I used to like your work, until you said X.”

The “X” could have been a joke or comment about pets or musicians — but for the offended, it was enough for them to disown their previous opinions of me forever.

(I have been getting lots of these emails lately).

My usual response has been: “If that’s all it took to get you to hate me, then you never liked me to begin with.”(continued)

[sparklite2]

Gutfeld is da bomb.

[ifinnegan]

I don know what Gutfield has done, but I had the experience with his fellow Breitbater Ben Shapiro when he went crazy fo days talking of how stupid he thinks Sarah Palin is, saying he can’t even stand to see her or hear her.

[bravo whiskey]

new phrase Hobby Hater. and alliterative too.

[latina4dubya]

whenever i find myself becoming offended over anything, i recall Philippians 2:5-8... in reality, Jesus is the only one who can rightfully be offended, and He showed none up to the crucifixion... if He held back His offense, who am i to be offended?

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature[a] God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

[driftless2]

I’m reading his book “Not Cool” at the moment. Funny book about how many “cool” liberals are not actually very cool.

[Don W]

An example.

These people are seriously demented.

[trebb]

Many have used this “new blasphemy” to trash decent conservative candidates....