Call Me Godless Ann, But Call Me Republican [retread zotted]

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[jexus]

In thinking about Coulters' new book, I am reminded of the grand review by Whittaker Chambers of "Atlas Shrugged" by the conservative atheist Ayn Rand. He begins:

"Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word. It is the more persuasive, in some quarters, because the author deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. In this fiction everything, everybody, is either all good or all bad, without any of those intermediate shades which, in life, complicate reality and perplex the eye that seeks to probe it truly."

Now, when I comes the "The Jersey Girls", I give Ann a great hurrah, I dislike them as heartily as she does and her comments are well overdue and seem to have made the liberals go wild in fits and spasms because of the truth that she reveals.

What is distressing to me is her sad, moronic description of Darwinism, a simple rehash of creationist claims which are an embarrassment to thinking people. Many works exist that deal with the issue, a good starting point may be the decision of the Republican Judge Jones in the Kitzmiller case. Just beware of getting your science from a columnist.

That leads here to asert that religion is essential to the conservative cause, or perhaps that anti-religion is essential to the liberal one. Check out Michael Crichton in his essay "Environmentalism as Religion" and many others.

I am a Republican and conservative because,-- I oppose Pseudoscience, Epistemic relativism and those disciplines or schools of thought whose truth claims are prompted by the political, ideological and moral commitments of their adherents.

I believe in the great ideas of the Enlightenment, which our founders encased in our constitution. That includes both a hatred of tyranny from an aristocracy and was also deeply suspicious of the power of the churches.

I am for liberty under law, for private property and pluralism. I think these ideas are worth defending by not only intellectual expression but also with military might if need be.

Call me Godless Ann, but call me a conservative.

[IslandJeff]

We're already on the same page. I'm not in the bidness of condemnation.

[Ironclad]

Front!

[woofie]

I will call you Zoted

[VadeRetro]

Hemmingway's first sentence of "The Old Man and the Sea" is considered the classic example of the opening hook. "He was an old Cuban fisherman who fished the waters of ... and he hadn't caught a fish in a month."

[woofie]

I will now call him/her Zotted ( as that is the more accepted spelling)

[2nsdammit]

I seem to recall that you were a hair's breadth away from being zotted, too....

[woofie]

"It was a dark and stormy night...."

[HockeyPop]

Darwinian evolution and creationism are not mutually exclusive. Both have their place in the existential existence I call my own life. One promotes scientific discovery and advancement while the other nourishes the soul.

[Echo Talon]

yep, I was suspended for a few days.

[Coyoteman]

Hemmingway's first sentence of "The Old Man and the Sea" is considered the classic example of the opening hook. "He was an old Cuban fisherman who fished the waters of ... and he hadn't caught a fish in a month."

You're right, the opening passage of book has to be a good line. If its poor, it could sink 'er.

[VadeRetro]

The important thing is the reader has to bite hard and want to run with it.

[Coyoteman]

The important thing is the reader has to bite hard and want to run with it.

Right. The net results could be a happy landing.

[VadeRetro]

It's from another Ann thread, but more of her problems with fact.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Facts? She doesn't need facts; she's a lawyer.

[Khurkris]

Pardon me...but why the heck should either of those questions matter?

[mjolnir]

Discounting Ann's take because she's a lawyer is fine; however a fortiori one must then apply the same standard to Judge Jones, who not only claimed expertise over science, religion and the philosophy of both, but decided his claims should have the force of law.

That the writer of this thread uses Whittaker Chambers to attack Ann is somewhat odd. The broad point of Chambers in Witness was exactly the same as the one Ann is making-- that totalitarian leftism is founded upon the vision of man replacing God.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Creationists requested that the judge make such a ruling before the trial started. On the other hand, the judge did use data as opposed to Ann who ignores it. Applying the standards equally illustrates Ann's lack of scholarship.

[Skooz]

I would tell you to go away, but you've already been zotted. Troll.