More Real Americans™ Need to See This
By If you read a lot of wingnut blather, you notice that a lot of wingers sound alternately angry and despairing, which is why I really like this entry from Rev. Dr. Hugh MacKenzie D.D.S. Esq. at American Thinker. He’s not angry, he’s not despairing. He’s happy because
that positive outcome, glorification, is “predestined”, locked in, assured, protected, unchangeable, even despite our best efforts to live up to our falseness.
The positive outcome is, I guess, Jesus coming down the from the heavens and telling the modern-day Hitlers–liberals all of them, I imagine–“BOOM! YA BURNT!” And then he takes all the Real Americans to go live in a Thomas Kincaide painting.
But before we get to those goofy, garishly-colored cottage in the sky, we gotta meander a bit…
In this age of the individual-as-the-center-of-all-things, positive self-image as the ultimate end of education, Original Sin seems to be a quaint throwback to an earlier and unsophisticated time.
A commenter beats me to it…
“In this age of the individual-as-the-center-of-all-things…”
If the individual were the center, then there would be no big government.
This is the age of “The state-as-the-centre-of-all-things”, not the individual.
I bet s/she’s a libertarian.
Go on, Rev. Dr. …
You see, when you are surprised, you are rattled to the point of inaction. It is a small step from shock to despair and from despair to unbelief. Didn’t anyone ever tell you that so many times the only realist in the room is the person of catholic faith? We are the gimlet-eyed people. We are the people of ultimate hope and righteous action. Why? Because we know 1) who is ultimately in charge 2) what the end game really is…
OK, this is the part where I tell you that, unlike many atheists, I am not well-versed in Bible-speak. Unlike many atheists, I was never a person a faith. Ever. Even a tiny bit. So the phrase “gimlet-eyed people” just makes me think of people who are happy because they’ve just drunk a lot of vodka. (Please don’t read this Erik.) But I’m assuming he doesn’t mean that; I’m assuming he just means people who are optimistic because they know Jesus has every game rigged up to and including having that one soccer guy biting that other soccer guy because he’s JUST. THAT. GOOD. And, of course, Jesus the biggest game of all–the game of life–rigged. So, yeah, the author seems happy about that.
What I’m wondering is why he’s so happy but so many of his brethren are so freakin’ angry? Like I said, all the Real Americans ™ need to read his piece. Honestly, I do give this guy credit for sounding like something other than a screeching howler monkey. Yes, he’s somewhat incoherent, but everyone who writes at American Thinker is incoherent. Still, I give him an “A” for optimism.