{"id":699,"date":"2007-04-10T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T11:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/10\/blogging-against-theosophistry\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T04:13:12","slug":"blogging-against-theosophistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Against Theosophistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

What approach to take to the leftysphere’s latest bit of navel-gazing self-absorption, “Blogs Against Theocracy?”<\/p>\n

Detailed, logical destruction of the premise<\/a>?<\/p>\n

it is painful, frustrating, and annoying to read such ignorant drivel. In the past I’ve written numerous posts on the “theocracy canard”<\/a> in a futile attempt to address this misconception. But for the radical fringe of the secular left–the Chomskyites, the 9\/11 conspiracy theorists, Rosie O’Donnell–reason and logic are like kryptonite. Because they live on emotion what they feel<\/em> is what is true, regardless of facts and reality.<\/p>\n

The theophobes, however, are a bit unique in that they embrace an infantile brand of libertarian socialism.* Like other leftists, they tend to advocate for collectivist government solutions. But their support ends when government interferes with their “rights” to do as they please. This is why they hate–and hate is not too strong a word–people who refuse to keep their religious beliefs in the closet. Christians, in particular, are considered a group that is always trying to impose their bourgeois standard of morality on society despite how it makes some people feel<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or satirical, comic mockery of the premise<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I Blog Against Theocracy because I am not afraid to proclaim to all who hear it “I do not believe in Al Gore!” I Blog Against Theocracy because I refuse to accept prophecies of drowning polar bears simply because Al Gore featured an animated dramatization of one in some stupid movie. I Blog Against Theocracy because they label me “sinner” for refusing to drive a speck car and running the air conditioning on 90 degree days while demurring to purchase salvation through “offsets” and “carbon credits”. I Blog Against Theocracy because I am free and I have the innate ability to think critically!<\/p>\n

I Blog Against Theocracy because Al Gore and his robotic acolytes have caused more misery to those with common sense than all the wars in history combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Logic or mockery? Mockery? Logic?<\/p>\n

Oh, mockery it is!<\/p>\n

Do we want to live in a world where two plus two equals six? Where a total may not only be less than the sum of its parts, but that can be declared a Good Thing? Where reason itself is cast adrift in the name of faith in untested, untestable, unempirical, “faith”-based solutions to life’s problems?<\/p>\n

Not for me! No way, Johann!<\/p>\n

And I’m sure you all feel the same. But that’s not why I’m blogging against Theocracy today. I’m blogging because of all the morons who Don’t Think It Can Happen Here.<\/p>\n

It can! It can can canny can can can!<\/p>\n

Minnesota is being led by a cabal of theosophists, who, in the absence of proof, are demanding that we adopt a faith-based approach to governing our state! Even though there’s never been any <\/em>empirical proof that you can “pay for a better Minnesota”, even though there’s no evidence that a shortage of money is causing the state’s education system to fail, that single-payer healthcare is anything but a bureaucratic power grab, you – we – are being asked to suspend logic and dig into our wallets – upon threat of government sanction – to pay for it!<\/p>\n

And if you don’t go along with their faith-based beliefs, they become abusive – they attack your character, they accuse you of hating children and promoting mediocrity!<\/p>\n

Even though there’s no evidence whatsoever that giving them twice as much money as they already have <\/em>will do a damn bit of good!<\/p>\n

I blog against theocracy because it is worse than genocide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What approach to take to the leftysphere’s latest bit of navel-gazing self-absorption, “Blogs Against Theocracy?” Detailed, logical destruction of the premise? it is painful, frustrating, and annoying to read such ignorant drivel. In the past I’ve written numerous posts on the “theocracy canard” in a futile attempt to address this misconception. But for the radical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}