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To: wideawake
>>>>>>>Are you honestly claiming that Buchanan - a man who is clearly an enthusiast for political and military history - never heard the phrase in his life until he scanned the ads in a recent issue of Chronicles?

I am claiming that non-Nazis use the phrase "blood and soil." You set out to smear Buchanan, and then erupt in non-sequiturs when I point out other conservatives who use the phrase.

>>>>>Maybe a book by Michael Novak?

Novak is a joke. A dissenter on Humanae Vitae, an open admirer of Andrew Sullivan's pro-sodomy antics, and a man who claimed that Latin America's problem is that it didn't experience the Reformation. Which strikes me, as it struck Tom Fleming, as a pretty outrageous statement for a supposed Catholic theologian to make.

Of course, the neocons have no problem embracing an open and notorious anti-Catholic bigot, such as Christopher Hitchens. This is unsurprising, since their warmed over Trotskyism has nothing to do with Christianity.

62 posted on 02/27/2006 12:50:40 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Thorin
I am claiming that non-Nazis use the phrase "blood and soil."

They don't use it in earnest - they use it as a reference precisely because of its historical connotations.

If I were to say "Zimbabwe's Mugabe has taken a real 'blood and soil' approach to the presence of white farmers in his country" I would be using the phrase in the normal way a non-Nazi uses it.

It is very odd for a non-Nazi to use it sympathetically, as descriptive of his own worldview - which is clearly how Buchanan is using it.

You set out to smear Buchanan, and then erupt in non-sequiturs when I point out other conservatives who use the phrase.

Provide the exact quote from the Chronicles ad, then, and enlighten us.

Now this is a smear indeed.

Novak is well-known for his renunciation of his disobedient stand on Humanae Vitae and defends it strenuously. Novak has written far more articles criticizing artificial contraception than Buchanan ever has.

He is not an admirer of sodomy or the obnoxious sodomy purveyor Andrew Sullivan.

And you'll have to source those Latin America comments.

Which strikes me, as it struck Tom Fleming, as a pretty outrageous statement for a supposed Catholic theologian to make.

Novak himself will openly admit that he was not always an obedient Catholic. And Novak specifically wrote a book refuting the Weberian analysis of Catholic culture.

I don't know who these "neocons" you refer to are. Hitchens is a vile, vicious scumbag.

Ah, the old Trotsky libel. "If you oppose isolationism, you are a Trotskyite."

Blah, blah, blah.

78 posted on 02/27/2006 1:11:37 PM PST by wideawake
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