Illogic and ignorance being used to smear Santorum

John C. Wright explains:

So, in this weird parallel Twilight Zone in which I found myself, both liberal and conservative commentators thought it worthy of comment that a practicing Catholic when addressing a Catholic audience would rebuke the sins of pride, vanity and sensuality, particularly the pride of intellectuals as seen in the La trahison des Clercs — and then rebukes the Church for falling into disarray.

The queen of the Twilight Zone is Maureen Dowd, whose reaction was to quip: “Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola. That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.” and then to say “When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.”

This is what passes for wit in the Twilight Zone: to express disbelieving yet smug disdain that Christians do not celebrate and laud the sins of the flesh.

In this weird parallel Twilight Zone, no one had been to Sunday School, or listened to a sermon, or else they would have heard this same theme at least once in their lives.

Neither had they ever cracked a history book, or else they would have known Western Civilization was Christian.

So Santorum said that proud academics think they are smarter than everybody and deny the existence of truth. I seem to recall the same point being made by Ayn Rand fifty years ago, and GK Chesterton a hundred years ago: and I cannot think of two writers more starkly opposite than the jovial theist anti-capitalist Chesterton and the choleric atheist pro-capitalist Rand. If they agree on something, it must be as common as table salt and as obvious as sunlight.

Not so obvious to the theologically and historically shallow.  DO read the entire thing... and thank Matteo for the find.

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[Locutisprime]

There is something being seen in this election cycle that here to fore has never been witnessed in American politics in my knowledge. There is a collusion between mainstream media and the party elite of the GOP to demonize all rivals to the ascending man who would be king Mitt Romney.

I came to the understanding in 2008 that the media all but expressed their desire and exasperation that the dumb masses of America refused to simply allow them to pick and choose who their candidates should be.

It was painfully obvious to me and many others, that regardless of what democrats wanted, Barack Obama had been anointed by the media and the same was true for John McCain and thus the election was set by American media.

The only difference this time, they only have one candidate to select for us.

When I see the allstars of conservative punditry lining up as the equivalent of the kings archers for American media, while mainstream media assembles their heavy horses to ride down all opposition to Romney, I know categorically and undeniably that collusion is afoot to fix and set the race.

America is truly on the cusp of a dictatorship and when it comes, most Americans will barely notice any change as they are already members of the zombie apocalypse. All that is needed are the half dead and soon to be dead wandering aimlessly and that too will come to pass.

[Karinee]

Written by a true liberal. Probably another
Harvah graduate.