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Fearing the Wrong Things

If you are a white conservative Christian in America…

I have terrible news for you:  As much as you wish it were true, you are not persecuted.  You are not a victim. Here is an utterly typical example of the Fake Victim mentality, taken from a vast menu of similar expressions The “professional Catholic” crowd are like “professional” politicians. Each personally enriches themselves off […]

If you take “Obamagate” seriously…

You are either a moron, a brazen liar, or a moron and a brazen liar. Some entertainment and information for a Saturday in lockdown. Obamagate is nothing other than the liar who is 100% to blame for the pandemic in the US flailing desperately to gin up his Cult with hysteria because he is responsible […]

Courage for Thee, Selfishness for Me: The Right Wing Credo

A new form of chickenhawkery has arisen with the Right Wing Cult of Death.  The cowards who themselves were draft dodgers but gung ho to send others to go die for them in Iraq 20 years ago are now the same cowards singing the praises of their own “courage” while they eagerly send others out […]

Millstones and Libertarianized “Prolife” Sleight of Hand

One of the troubles a libertarianized American faith gets into is the tendency to deal with sin on a libertarianized basis. Case in point: the tendency of conservative American prolifers to read this story and see it solely in terms of this woman’s responsibility and not at all in terms of the failure of our […]

Empathy Resistance Training

So here is a charming screenshot: This rather characteristic display of spite from the MAGA “prolife” Cult can be supplemented by many similar displays: From death threats again Jimmy Kimmel’s three year son to this expression of naked contempt for the lebensunwertes leben: “Sacrifice the Weak” – imagine not just thinking of this but actually […]

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant” – Samuel Johnson

It is important that prolife people clear their minds of cant. One of the biggest pieces of cant out there is that Dems, who right wing culture warriors love to describe as “rabidly pro-abortion” are going to somehow turbocharge abortion in some way that will make it more abortiony than ever. They therefore freak out […]

Something to Astound You for a Saturday

You’re welcome!

Deacon Steve Greydanus on the Faustian Bargain of Religious Conservatives

National Review penned one of its periodic excuses for why the Most Wrong Demographic in American political life–white conservative Christians, both Protestant and Catholic (and, I would add, Orthodox)–have whored themselves out in such enormous percentages for the most embarrassing corrupt, stupid, incompetent, and dishonest idiot in the history of the United States. Deacon Steven […]

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