Karl Marx.
Posted on 10/20/2010 8:47:09 AM PDT by RJR_fan
I’ve debated with myself over whether I should respond to Tommy Ice’s awful article about me and my book End Times Fiction that Brannon Howse published on his Worldview Weekend site. ... The head of a worldview ministry is responsible for answering his critics honestly. So far, Brannon has not done this.
Tommy claims that I’m “jealous ... Tommy claims to know my motives in writing End Times Fiction. He doesn’t. I write my books because I believe there is a need for their message. Anyway, suppose jealousy is the reason I wrote the first edition of End Times Fiction. Ice’s jealousy charge is a red herring to divert attention from his theological perspective and his poorly reasoned arguments. He also engages in an ad hominem. My motives are irrelevant to the substance of my argument. I could be jealous, and LaHaye could be wrong.
By the way, what are LaHaye’s motives for writing Left Behind and Ice’s defense of LaHaye? There are lots of people who have charged that LaHaye’s doing it for the money. The original series was planned for three volumes. When LaHaye and his publisher saw how well the series was selling, they stretched out the gravy train to 16 books. This doesn’t count the 40 volumes of kids’ books and related Left Behind spin-offs ... . What motive would Ice have to defend LaHaye and attack me? He gets paid by LaHaye and has served as a co-author with him on several book projects. ... Denial is all they can do since there’s no empirical way to prove that LaHaye’s not doing it for the money just like there’s no way to prove that I didn’t write End Times Fiction out of jealousy. That’s why charges of motive make bad arguments.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanvision.org ...
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Does anyone know any author who wrote a book out of ‘jealousy’?
The “I’m a victim” schtick is silly when lefties use it. It is just plain pathetic when conservatives use it.
Karl Marx.
Karl Marx.
Karl Marx.
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