Short Rant on Stupid Biases Against Faith
Here's a little rant for you all. It was triggered by a New York Times column showing how Bush's crazy faith and fundamentalism will be the doom of us all. Really people, if you're gonna talk about faith, could you at least get a basic idea of what it is first? Anyway, here it goes:Yes! This article is absolutely right: religious people hate facts, are anti-intellectuals and can't wait to find a chance to impose our oppressive and backward beliefs on reasonable, progressive people. Too bad they won't leave their biased shells and looked at reality for a bit. Can't they realize that modern reason overrides and contradicts their ridiculous faith?
Ah yes, modern reason, that beautiful muse which brought us such fruits as the wisdom of Derrida (who pointed out to us that nothing really means anything), the coherence of Nietzsche (who emancipated us with his great motto of "Why not live a lie?"... and really, why not?), or the compassion of Professor Peter Singer from Princeton University (who revealed that infanticide, and I mean that as "disposing" of already-born babies, is perfectly OK and should be legalized). Really, who could ask for more?
Never mind that Christianity provided the moral, intellectual, cultural and artistic backbone of Western Civilization... Mere trifles. Now we know better. Now columnists in the New York Times can free us from the delusions of Pascal, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Kirkegaard, Tolstoy, Etienne Gilson, G.K. Chesterton, Mother Theresa, C.S. Lewis, a host of modern physicists (i.e., Paul Davies, Henry F. Schaefer), millions upon millions of believers, and other imbeciles of their sort. Be glad world! Ron Suskind of the Times will set you free. Free from that ignorant cage of Christ.
And yet from my cage I wonder... Why do I feel so free?
posted by ertandberni @ 1:53 AM
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