Posted on 12/10/2009 3:32:32 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Andrew Klavan, the author of such internationally bestselling crime novels..
Klavan: It was an experience that very much mirrored the pattern of the famous paradigm shift described in Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Anomalies started to occur, things that didn’t fit into what I thought of as a “liberal” world view. ... Then the Berlin Wall fell down – everything Reagan predicted – stupid Reagan, cowboy Reagan, dumb old movie actor Reagan – every single thing he said would happen, happened. And it finally began to dawn on me, “Oh, I get it: it’s not this and this and this that’s wrong. It’s ALL wrong.” And I started the long, difficult process of changing my mind.
Klavan: Shame and guilt and self-hatred are universal. Whether you chalk it up to original sin or to Oedipus or call it Jewish guilt or Catholic guilt or white guilt or black guilt, every single one of us knows he is not the person he was made to be. There are honest ways to confront that. You can kneel before God and pray for forgiveness and live in the joy of his love. Or you can drink heavily and make sardonic remarks until you destroy everyone you care about and then keel over dead – that’s honest too. But what a lot of people do is try to escape their sense of shame dishonestly by constructing elaborate moral frameworks that allow them to parade their virtue and their lavish repentance without any real inconvenience to themselves while simultaneously indulging in self-righteousness by condemning others for their impenitent evil. That’s the bad version of religion – the sort of religion Jesus came to dismantle. And that’s exactly the sort of religion leftism is
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I hope that conservatives will welcome the immanent tsunami of leftist defections that Climategate is going to produce. We can call them the Dennis Miller Brigades.
Very interesting article. God bless and pray for him to continue his search for the truth. He has an article in WSJ regarding election of Anglican lesbian bishop in LA.
He thinks the only thing wrong with it is that gays are trying to move too quickly without consensus. Sigh.
Yes, he does.
That article makes it clear that he is still a leftist, and an extreme one at that.
He only objects to two things:
1) His friends are "going too fast".
2) They might hurt Israel.
Those two things don't make you a conservative.
I hope that conservatives will welcome the immanent tsunami of leftist defections that Climategate is going to produce. We can call them the Dennis Miller Brigades.
Klavan is doing what he said he rejects: Making a moral framework of accepting homosexuality because he has gay friends who he cares about. IT is too tiresome to (re)explain how it is possible to love your fellow man without condoning immoral acts. But maybe that is what some of us are called to do.
“Cometh the man?” Methinks Gov. Palin has arrived.
On Evan Thomas: “He’s lucky there’s a Keith Olbermann, or he’d be the poster boy for our corrupt idiot news media.”
Nicely done. Killed two birds with one stone.
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