My opinion Jonah Goldberg : No cure for intellectual dementia

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[Jaysun]

Good read.

[CajunConservative]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

[gogeo]

This sounds like Islamists to me.

[YdontUleaveLibs]

If we had to take an IQ test to vote, most Demonrats would lose the right to vote.

[Darkwolf377]

Good piece. I've said this before, I'll say it again:

The US government is filled with Christians, since the population on the whole is majority Christian. So why haven't the Christians imposed this supposed theocracy already--how big a majority are they waiting for?

Now imagine all the Christians in government--including both houses, and I'm guessing the SCOTUS, and the White House--were overnight replaced by Muslims. How long do you think before we have a real theocracy?

[proud_yank]

The smaller the example, the greater its significance. And that trick is the intellectual class's gift to America.

NAILED IT!

[rellimpank]

---more--different title--

--http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717516/posts

[CajunConservative]

I post on a big Christian forum and the liberals that post there think we are just like the islamic jihadists. In fact the site's been hit by seminar posters all trying to stir the pot and encourage the evangelicals to sit out the election because of the Foley situation.

[vox humana]

If we had to take an IQ test to vote, most Demonrats would lose the right to vote.

Well, I guess this guy must be a one of them...

Benjamin Barber "dismissed the idea that Islamist fundamentalism was in any way totalitarian..."

[Teflonic]

Intellectual ignorance at its finest.

[Jaysun]

This sounds like Islamists to me.

It is. There are so many "issues" being discussed today that aren't really debatable. They're an observation of facts. Is the economy doing well? Yes, if you observe the facts, and no, if you're an idiot Democrat. Is Christianity a threat to liberty? No, if you observe the facts, and yes, if you're an idiot Democrat. This is the same on a number of issues. Does gun control work? Does welfare work? Are we destroying planet earth? They're idiots and I hate it that we've lowered ourselves to debating them.

[crazyhorse691]

But, truth is, lots of otherwise normal people believe this stuff.

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"Stuff" isn't the word I would use.

[SandRat]

Yes it is. I stepped in some "STUFF" walking across the parking lot today.

[Publius6961]

could be seen as the democratization of intellectual dementia. Criticisms of President Bush, Christians, the right wing, the Patriot Act, whatever:

Well, I do agree that most of those examples are phantasms, except the Patriot Act and RICO statute abuses. Those are real and ongoing.
When those laws are perverted to prosecute prayer meetings and to punish "un-PC" conduct, the line has been crossed big time.

[LiberalBassTurds]

Right fear, wrong religion.

LBT
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[gogeo]

That could be my sister-in-law. She suffers from BDS. They've sent their children to a private, Christian school. She's decided they will be pulled out because the board is staffed by "Right Wing Republicans." You can't even talk to her, I don't try.

[Carry_Okie]

He doesn't get it. These leftist projections onto Christianity are made as a prospective excuse to justify visiting the equivalent upon Christians.

Worse, it is lefitsts who hold protected jobs in government agencies, wielding the same police power they supposedy fear, while imagining it in the hands of those who will never wield it!

[CajunConservative]

I have a looney lib sister too.

BDS?

[singfreedom]

I hope nobody--Christian or otherwise--is dumb enough to believe "sitting out" this election, or any other, is a good idea. I agree with whoever it was, further up the thread, that said if this country were going to become a theocracy, it would have already happened.

Isn't it fabulous that the Secular Progressives in this country can say, with impunity and a straight face, that it is Christians that endanger the freedom of this country? Most of the signers of the Constitution were Christians, furthermore, they would unashamedly admit the fact!

My father often used the same Orwell dictum. He was a very intelligent and educated man, but he never lost sight of the purpose of education, unlike the "Ivory Tower" dwellers he so abhorred. The "intellectual autocrats" simply cannot accept the fact that anyone, out here in "fly over country", has the gumption, let alone intellect, to dispute their distorted perspective.