The things my parents fill their heads with
From the current issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture:
Article: Defense of Marriage Act
The unconstitutional 14th amendment...
Um.. I'm not even sure where to begin with that statement.
"Gay Marriage" is the antithesis of marriage. It enthrones compulsions, barbaric impulses, and enslaving desires. As such, it is simply a variation of an old but tempting theme originally played by the usurper on the garden.
Article: Christmas Nightmares
This essay lacks any kind of thesis statement. It refers to a third person "he" for the first two thirds (but never makes it clear who "he" is supposed to be) then switches to the first person "we". It meanders from complaints of secularism of society (in the 1950s), saying that Christians feared death, a rant on the secularization of Christmas, then...
The neopagan desecration of Christmas...
(This is without any previous mention of paganism, other than one statement admitting that many of the trappings of Christmas and other Christian ceremonies being borrowed from pagan tradition)
...has been matched by a process that turned All Hallows Eve first into a gold mine for candy butchers and dentists and then into a glorification of all that is twisted and perverse.
Again with those darn neopagans coopting Christian events..
What films do people watch on Oct. 31? It used to be wholesome moral cartoons like the Wolfman and Dracula.
The morality of being able to be turned into an uncontrollable animal through no fault of your own other than having been bitten by a supernatural creature? Or a force of evil parasite that has the ability to override your free will?
The ancient pagans from whom we have borrowed so many of the petty customs and rituals that enrich the Christmas calendar...
Ah, so when you do something to another group's religious ceremonies, it's enrichment as opposed to desecration. It then goes back to the Christians fear death for a paragraph before swinging into this:
Even the otherwise solid Catholic theologians have come to overvalue the here and now to such an extent that they oppose the death penalty.
Yes, how dare little know theologians such as Pope John Paul II dare to read the New Testament and see that Jesus's statements don't really fit into the idea of the death penalty. It then randomly attacks the New York Times and closes with, we should do as Pilgrim did when he "put his fingers in his ears and went on crying, 'Life, Life, Eternal Life.'"
What makes the lack of cohesion and writing ability that much worse to me is that the piece was written by the _editor_ of the magazine.
Bonus quote by him from another source:
Here is a basic fact we are likely to forget. The word "American" is not a geographical expression but a reference to citizenship…
Indians who, like Italians, Slavs, and the descendants of former slaves, become naturalized and accept the basic myths and premises of America’s European founding, can be fairly described as “real Americans” as distinct from Marxist intellectuals and whining minorities.
He's also a believer in Papal Supremacy, except apparently regarding the death penalty, where he knows better than the Pope.
Article: Media Bias Revisited
The sexual revolution has taken place not so much in the homosexual bathhouses of San Francisco and Manhattan as in the marriage bed. That is where contraception, abhorred as immoral and revolting by nearly all professed Christians before 1931 is now accepted as normal for married couples. ... Contraception, a taboo topic on television within living memory, has achieved such full respectability that today contraceptive products are freely advertised on prime time.
Article: The Monkey Chronicles
I want to make something very, very clear: This column's review of the autobiography of Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee has nothing to do with the man who just got elected to the White House last month.
OK....
After a rambling "review" (the meaning of which has apparently been redefined to mean summarize annecdotes), he closes with:
I have to wonder how we have come to this: to have posturing peacocks like Joe Biden spouting gibberish that would have the hook working overtime in a beer hall, or egregious self-publicists like Christopher Hitchens preaching on prime-time TV about the evils of the Catholic Church. Ours is a scene of Hogarthian squalor and retching, and you and I, dear reader, are responsible for it. We have allowed those beyond redemption, the utter scum of this world, the coarse, the greedy, and the avaricious to lead us, and now it's time to pay. Long live Cheeta.
Article: Book review of Darwin Day in America
John G. West is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a nonpartisan public policy think tank...
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Article: Defense of Marriage Act
The unconstitutional 14th amendment...
Um.. I'm not even sure where to begin with that statement.
"Gay Marriage" is the antithesis of marriage. It enthrones compulsions, barbaric impulses, and enslaving desires. As such, it is simply a variation of an old but tempting theme originally played by the usurper on the garden.
Article: Christmas Nightmares
This essay lacks any kind of thesis statement. It refers to a third person "he" for the first two thirds (but never makes it clear who "he" is supposed to be) then switches to the first person "we". It meanders from complaints of secularism of society (in the 1950s), saying that Christians feared death, a rant on the secularization of Christmas, then...
The neopagan desecration of Christmas...
(This is without any previous mention of paganism, other than one statement admitting that many of the trappings of Christmas and other Christian ceremonies being borrowed from pagan tradition)
...has been matched by a process that turned All Hallows Eve first into a gold mine for candy butchers and dentists and then into a glorification of all that is twisted and perverse.
Again with those darn neopagans coopting Christian events..
What films do people watch on Oct. 31? It used to be wholesome moral cartoons like the Wolfman and Dracula.
The morality of being able to be turned into an uncontrollable animal through no fault of your own other than having been bitten by a supernatural creature? Or a force of evil parasite that has the ability to override your free will?
The ancient pagans from whom we have borrowed so many of the petty customs and rituals that enrich the Christmas calendar...
Ah, so when you do something to another group's religious ceremonies, it's enrichment as opposed to desecration. It then goes back to the Christians fear death for a paragraph before swinging into this:
Even the otherwise solid Catholic theologians have come to overvalue the here and now to such an extent that they oppose the death penalty.
Yes, how dare little know theologians such as Pope John Paul II dare to read the New Testament and see that Jesus's statements don't really fit into the idea of the death penalty. It then randomly attacks the New York Times and closes with, we should do as Pilgrim did when he "put his fingers in his ears and went on crying, 'Life, Life, Eternal Life.'"
What makes the lack of cohesion and writing ability that much worse to me is that the piece was written by the _editor_ of the magazine.
Bonus quote by him from another source:
Here is a basic fact we are likely to forget. The word "American" is not a geographical expression but a reference to citizenship…
Indians who, like Italians, Slavs, and the descendants of former slaves, become naturalized and accept the basic myths and premises of America’s European founding, can be fairly described as “real Americans” as distinct from Marxist intellectuals and whining minorities.
He's also a believer in Papal Supremacy, except apparently regarding the death penalty, where he knows better than the Pope.
Article: Media Bias Revisited
The sexual revolution has taken place not so much in the homosexual bathhouses of San Francisco and Manhattan as in the marriage bed. That is where contraception, abhorred as immoral and revolting by nearly all professed Christians before 1931 is now accepted as normal for married couples. ... Contraception, a taboo topic on television within living memory, has achieved such full respectability that today contraceptive products are freely advertised on prime time.
Article: The Monkey Chronicles
I want to make something very, very clear: This column's review of the autobiography of Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee has nothing to do with the man who just got elected to the White House last month.
OK....
After a rambling "review" (the meaning of which has apparently been redefined to mean summarize annecdotes), he closes with:
I have to wonder how we have come to this: to have posturing peacocks like Joe Biden spouting gibberish that would have the hook working overtime in a beer hall, or egregious self-publicists like Christopher Hitchens preaching on prime-time TV about the evils of the Catholic Church. Ours is a scene of Hogarthian squalor and retching, and you and I, dear reader, are responsible for it. We have allowed those beyond redemption, the utter scum of this world, the coarse, the greedy, and the avaricious to lead us, and now it's time to pay. Long live Cheeta.
Article: Book review of Darwin Day in America
John G. West is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a nonpartisan public policy think tank...
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