Bill's Notes

Said I wouldn't, but I'm on deadline, so I did to procrastinate. A quick post here and then it's back to work:

He posted the following:

There really is a Dominionist movement (not a conspiracy, it's out in the open) to establish a Christian theocracy.

I wrote:

Larry,

I really wouldn't worry so much about Christian Dominionism. Not likely to happen.

Cheers.

He wrote:

I'm sure George Tiller, those killed on 9/11, those killed in Oklahoma city, Matthew Shepard, the millions of women losing their reproductive rights, the thousands of people tortured by the Bush administration, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan will take much comfort in your charming and quaint optimism.

In other words: You're a fucktard. Piss off.

I wrote:

Larry,

George Tiller was killed in a Christian Church. Makes it a family spat.

9/11's crimes were caused by Muslim extremists, not Christian dominionists.

Timothy McVeigh was not exactly a good Catholic and was not seeking to build a Christian theocracy.

Matthew Shepard was killed by a defendant who used a "gay panic" defense, which makes the murder a family spat.

Afghanistan — hey, don't attack our cities from your country, and we won't invade.

The Iraq War, and as we now see, torture, appear to be bipartisan affairs, uniting a strange coalition for and against that cut across all sorts of demographic lines.

Reproductive rights? You mean men's reproductive rights or the next generation's? Oh, those rights don't exist in your world.

I'll give you this much, though. At least you're wrong. In many cases, you have things exactly wrong, which is encouraging, because it means you're asking the right questions and logically concluding the exact wrong answer most of the time. That's not what I expected when I clicked through here. I thought you'd just be crazy.

Cheers,

FT (apparently) Bill

Why am I doing this? (Besides wasting time.) I admit I find logical madness fascinating, and this is a great example. Why yes, there are folks who want to establish a Christian theocracy in this country. I don't think, given the current state of affairs, that they're a particular threat to anyone. Neither is this guy a threat, with his theory of "demand-style communism" which will somehow avoid the excesses (my term) of Stalin, Lenin and Mao. In his implementing communism posts (no link), he seems to trust himself to carry out a new communist plan in which reasonableness will prevail through massive re-education of the populace.

That is, he's figured things out logically, and now if everyone just agrees with his thinking, they'll give up their false beliefs and superstitions and we'll all have peace and prosperity and walk in the sun.

See liberal emancipation narrative, below.

Elsewhere on his blog, he talks about what will stand in the way of the New and Improved Proletariat Revolution: Paraphrasing, it's the Christians who have all the guns. Oh, so that's what's he's so worried about. Christians might fight back and stand in the way of his plan for mankind's salvation.

Emotionally sensitive. Childish. Grandiose. I suspect an addiction somewhere in there.