R C Metcalf, PhD, knows the erotic power of a polysyllabic adverb and harnesses it to denounce the “diversionary tactics” of public unbelievers, and to, er, divert their attentions to those damned Muslims:
The new atheists are a tumescent bunch, unquestionably articulate, yet consummately misguided. Their incendiary rhetoric can’t help but stir the emotions of the majority of America’s religious. Yet why do they ultimately choose to target Christianity above all other religious systems, when Islam presents a clear and present danger?
They routinely build a straw man version of Christianity based not upon the Ten Commandments and the morality of the Christ, but rather upon Old Testament Levitical laws that have long since been abrogated. They cannot be so naïve as to believe that Christians condone the murder of back talking children, yet that is exactly the sort of rhetoric they routinely tout.
It’s worth sticking with the gibbering to the climactic end, when he drags the Iraq war into things. Christ, can you imagine having to read R C’s thesis?
It does seem odd to use hyperbolic and overblown rhetoric to decry people for, um, using hyperbolic and overblown rhetoric.
Also, ‘don’t pick on me, pick on him’ isn’t a terribly edifying argument is it?
So those fundamentalists who believe in the literal truth of Genesis and wave placards to deny rights to gays and then claim it is an assault on Christianity when someone seeks to oppose them don’t really exist then? That’s a relief.