c***@hotmail.com
2005-04-22 07:44:38 UTC
By now everyone should have heard about the Christian Coalition and its
muzzy-headed philosophies. In case you haven't heard or have even
forgotten, allow me to refresh your memory. I realize that some of you
may not know the particular background details of the events I'm
referring to. I'm not going to go into those details here, but you can
read up on them elsewhere.
Of course, I'm generalizing a little here. But that's only because the
acid test for the Christian Coalition's "kinder, gentler" new
allegations should be, "Do they still drive us into a state of
apoplexy?" If the answer is yes, then we can conclude that what we have
been imparting to the Christian Coalition -- or what it has been
eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic,
contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge.
kingdom. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an
international scale, but to tell the Christian Coalition where it can
stick it. The Christian Coalition likes to compare its wheelings and
dealings to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however,
doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities
that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them.
The Christian Coalition's scare tactics have merged with absolutism in
several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of
reality-denying mentality. Both inspire a recrudescence of depraved
fatuity. And both pigeonhole people into predetermined categories.
The Christian Coalition's hangers-on have learned their scripts well,
and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation. Now that
I've had time to think about the Christian Coalition's pleas, my only
question is this: Why? Why keep essential documents hidden from the
public until they become politically moot? Let me give you a hint: The
Christian Coalition has, at times, called me "moonstruck" or
"confused". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the
stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to sacrifice
children on the twin altars of propagandism and greed.
If you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you
will indisputably find that when I'm through with the Christian
Coalition, it'll think twice before attempting to strap us down with a
network of rules and regulations. If the Christian Coalition got its
way, it'd be able to shackle us with the chains of
antidisestablishmentarianism. Brrrr! It sends chills down my spine just
thinking about that. If we don't soon tell the Christian Coalition to
stop what it's doing, it will proceed with its vicious op-ed pieces,
considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly
given the Christian Coalition our permission to do so. Is it just me,
or do other people also think that the Christian Coalition wallows in
its basest behavior? I ask, because anyone who hasn't been living in a
cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that thanks to the
Christian Coalition, immature political movements are experiencing a
resurgence around the world. Do I blame society for this? No, I blame
the Christian Coalition.
Let no one say that a richly evocative description of a problem
automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. No, this is
ribald collectivism and must be regarded as an attempt to get on my
nerves. To oppose ageism, we must oppose incendiarism. To oppose
stoicism, we must oppose clericalism. And to oppose the Christian
Coalition, we must oppose Bonapartism-oriented, ugly mystics. I
undeniably hope that the Christian Coalition's arguments were intended
as a joke, although they're not very funny if they were. In the past,
when I complained that the Christian Coalition was attempting to wage
an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing
public, I was told that I was just being temperamental. But nowadays,
people realize that it tends to forget what matters most. Think about
it, and I'm sure you'll agree with me. Before you read this letter, you
might have thought that newspapers should report only on items the
Christian Coalition agrees with. Now you know that I, not being one of
the many eccentric hooligans of this world, undoubtedly intend to keep
writing letters like this one until the Christian Coalition changes its
ways.
muzzy-headed philosophies. In case you haven't heard or have even
forgotten, allow me to refresh your memory. I realize that some of you
may not know the particular background details of the events I'm
referring to. I'm not going to go into those details here, but you can
read up on them elsewhere.
Of course, I'm generalizing a little here. But that's only because the
acid test for the Christian Coalition's "kinder, gentler" new
allegations should be, "Do they still drive us into a state of
apoplexy?" If the answer is yes, then we can conclude that what we have
been imparting to the Christian Coalition -- or what it has been
eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic,
contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge.
From a public-policy perspective, the Christian Coalition operates on
an international scale to grant prissy, violent dunces the keys to thekingdom. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an
international scale, but to tell the Christian Coalition where it can
stick it. The Christian Coalition likes to compare its wheelings and
dealings to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however,
doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities
that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them.
The Christian Coalition's scare tactics have merged with absolutism in
several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of
reality-denying mentality. Both inspire a recrudescence of depraved
fatuity. And both pigeonhole people into predetermined categories.
The Christian Coalition's hangers-on have learned their scripts well,
and the rhetoric comes gushing forth with little provocation. Now that
I've had time to think about the Christian Coalition's pleas, my only
question is this: Why? Why keep essential documents hidden from the
public until they become politically moot? Let me give you a hint: The
Christian Coalition has, at times, called me "moonstruck" or
"confused". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the
stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to sacrifice
children on the twin altars of propagandism and greed.
If you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you
will indisputably find that when I'm through with the Christian
Coalition, it'll think twice before attempting to strap us down with a
network of rules and regulations. If the Christian Coalition got its
way, it'd be able to shackle us with the chains of
antidisestablishmentarianism. Brrrr! It sends chills down my spine just
thinking about that. If we don't soon tell the Christian Coalition to
stop what it's doing, it will proceed with its vicious op-ed pieces,
considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly
given the Christian Coalition our permission to do so. Is it just me,
or do other people also think that the Christian Coalition wallows in
its basest behavior? I ask, because anyone who hasn't been living in a
cave with his eyes shut and his ears plugged knows that thanks to the
Christian Coalition, immature political movements are experiencing a
resurgence around the world. Do I blame society for this? No, I blame
the Christian Coalition.
Let no one say that a richly evocative description of a problem
automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. No, this is
ribald collectivism and must be regarded as an attempt to get on my
nerves. To oppose ageism, we must oppose incendiarism. To oppose
stoicism, we must oppose clericalism. And to oppose the Christian
Coalition, we must oppose Bonapartism-oriented, ugly mystics. I
undeniably hope that the Christian Coalition's arguments were intended
as a joke, although they're not very funny if they were. In the past,
when I complained that the Christian Coalition was attempting to wage
an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing
public, I was told that I was just being temperamental. But nowadays,
people realize that it tends to forget what matters most. Think about
it, and I'm sure you'll agree with me. Before you read this letter, you
might have thought that newspapers should report only on items the
Christian Coalition agrees with. Now you know that I, not being one of
the many eccentric hooligans of this world, undoubtedly intend to keep
writing letters like this one until the Christian Coalition changes its
ways.