Is that all they can find to berate Ben Carson...???
If Joseph built them, then the white folks wasn’t in caves when the pyramids was built.
Unless Sharpton thinks Joseph is black. Rev. Wright probably does.
Unfortunately, while this should be meaningless, it isn’t. In the general election the MSM will take something trivial like this and have it dominate the news cycle for days. Ted Cruz is too clever to make these Aikenesque statements, and Donald Trump is too strong to let the media make anything of them.
Today's liberals, especially the so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians--even those "experts" who attempt to denigrate a man whose understanding of their brains exceeds anything they ever have comprehended.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive branch of the government and wishes to carry it "forward" (see HRC's logo).
True.
I find his views on illegal immigration, gun control, and pacifism to be much more troubling.
By the time a single pyramid could have been started by Joseph’s command/direction, the bumper crop years would have ended and they’d have been well into the famine.
Sorry, but if you think the pyramids were used to store grain, you have some serious lunacy going on.
Dr. Carson is a champion, but he’s playing in the wrong arena now, and the end is not going to be pretty.
The infotainment complex will keep him afloat for the next few weeks while working up the “Rubio surge”, and then they will throw him away like a piece of trash.
A bad end for a good man.
I have to wonder if the Left is working to keep Carson on top so they have someone to easily tear apart later.
Its funny. I remember back in the seventies guys at the office arguing about whether they were built by aliens. There was some book out arguing that a lot of the mega-wonders-of-the-world were built by ancient astronauts. Or something.
“he expressed an, admittedly, exotic view on the purpose of Egyptian pyramids”
-—Exotic view? Are you for real? That’s not exotic, it’s down right nuts! People are really going to lose a lot of credibility defending this - especially with Christians!
I wonder how many of the people here ridiculing Carson for his pyramid use theory believe in a six day creation, Adam and Eve, the parting of the seas, Jonah and the whale, Daniel and the lions, the Virgin birth or the resurrection of Christ?
For that matter, how many actually believe the story of Joseph?
The first pyramid to be built was the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (Netjerikhet) which is part of a complex in Saqqara Egypt that appears to be a grain storage and distribution center. The Step Pyramid itself was built on top of a shaft that was originally used as a grain silo but then converted into a tomb for the Pharaoh. The Step Pyramid is really a series of Mastabas, made from solid limestone blocks, stacked up on top of one another. The Step Pyramid was used to bury Netjerikhet’s 3 wives and 11 daughters and Netjerikhets sarcophagus was placed on a platform in the shaft beneath the Stepped Pyramid.
Pyramania - Alan Parsons Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KWb6JuYp0
Leftists of all stripes think this is important.