Want to see a right-winger who's drank the Kool-Aid, a lot?

[Archae]

Read this rant on another right-winger's LiveJournal:

1) "New Age Religion of the Month Club": Haven't you noticed that, while Heaven forbid anyone mention Christ or the Ten Commandments, you can easily find High School courses that go into reincarnation, thought transference, meditation, astral travel, Worship of Mother Earth, and so forth? These are religious practices ripped from their religious contexts and mangled by the hippie-dippy sensibilities of the kind of nitwit that goes to a Teachers' College these days. Hence New Age Religion of the Month Club.

2) Unduly? I'm not sure I'd agree with that. As I've suggested before, Christian culture, for all its flaws, seems to come out ahead of the competition. It is certainly head and shoulders above the religion of the ACLU (Marxism), which inspired the murder of a hundred million people in a single century. If Bush is to have a guiding set of principles (and I for one think that a President had better), he could do an awful lot worse. He could, for instance, be guided by the racist elitist progressivism of Woodrow Wilson - which got us into WWI for no very good reason, and then bungled the peace accords so badly as the virtually assure WWII.

3) I really think that if anybody bothered to investigate it in detail they would find that opposition to Gay Marriage has far more to do with

a) Opposition to being pushed around by Judges who are exceeding their lawful authority.

and

b) A visceral reaction to the Gay community's deliberate campaign to present Gays and careless hedonists. When one reads about "Bug Chasers" (and Gods, I hope that that reporter was having his leg pulled) one tends to conclude that the subculture that tolerates them isn't ready for any real responsibility. Ditto the fight to keep the Bath House culture going despite the AIDS epidemic, and so on.

Face it, for the last decade or two the public face of the Gay community has been a bunch of heedless twits. If Gays want to be treated like responsible adults (and being allowed to marry would be a big step in that direction) they are going to have to change that. Is this fair? Maybe not, but it is how society works.

4) I now a large number of self -professed Christians. They are not agaisnt condoms. They are against

a) Giving condoms to grade school children for the same very good reasons that they are against handing out powerful firecrackers to the same kids.

b) The determination of Ed School dregs who apparently cannot teach children how to read, write, or do basic math to take over something as nuanced as teaching sexual responsibility. This attitude is not helped by the pattern of headstrong teachers who take it on themselves to circumvent whatever restrictions are placed on them by local parents.

c) Treating condoms as a solution. Condoms do not stop transmission of STDs, because they do not prevent the passage of viruses (they make it harder, but don't stop it). A lot of the Christian Backlash that Ed Sex advocates prattle about is little more than thinking people who have discovered (by reading) that the Sexual Revolution was attended by a several hundred percent jump in the rate of STDs, and that the Gay population (BEFORE AIDS!) had an STD rate six or seven times higher than the background population. Proponents of Progressive Education seem to believe that the rise in teen pregnancy that happened in the twentieth century in spite of more affective and more available birth control has nothing to do with sex education in the schools. Large numbers of parents disagree, and the responsibility ultimately devolves onto the parents.

BTW I strongly suspect that abstinance programs in public schools 'fail' because the people who teach them WANT them to fail, just as phonics programs do not have the same degree of god results in Public Schools that they have at home because Public School teachers undermine them.

http://rhjunior.livejournal.com/275463.html

http://neyland-tarr.livejournal.com/

[bluerum]

1. Clearly not letting reality get in his way.

[Archae]

2. Like Colbert said...

Reality is a liberal thing... :crazy:

[ixion]

3. as far as RWing'ers go, as least this one is lucid, albeit

still very confused.

[Canuckistanian]

6. "racist elitist progressivism of Woodrow Wilson"

:wtf:

[ixion]

7. yeah, I have no clue where they come up with crap like this

I've stopped trying to apply any logical trace when they mention stuff like that, as it has no grounding in reality whatsoever.

[Chulanowa]

10. Well, you know how they use language

They like to make up new words and invent new words.

Everything htey disagree with becomes an "istism"

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Well, I've seen indications that Wilson was racist

and he was highly educated-so of course he was 'elitist'. I've never heard claims that he was progressive though.

[Archae]

12. Wilson did have some racist tendencies.

He was anti-having blacks in government positions, and eagerly watched "Birth Of A Nation," calling it "history written by lightning," when we know it to be revisionist trash.
(Well-filmed trash, but trash none the less.)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I bet this person sends his kids to Christian schools

In many states, the "teachers" in these schools do not have to have taken any teacher training course. In some states, they merely have to have a high school education. I have seen students from private "Christian" schools who are years behind publicly schooled children their own age. And I don't mean just academically, but also socially. They tend to keep to themselves and have very rigid and fragile belief systems-so fragile that they cannot stand to be around anyone different from them. Some break out of this mold and wind up either in trouble or rather cynical about society in general.

As for sex education-I believe abstinance is best taught at home-and best enforced by a loving family that spends time with their kids so that they know where they are and what they are doing. They are also very honest and up front with their children about sexuality and what chastity really means.

[niyad]

5. barely made it through first paragraph, but I would REALLLLLY like to

know about the high schools that teach the things he mentioned, because it sure isn't any that I know.

[IChing]

8. This guy was recently arrested, story here:

Pro-Lifer Attacks NASA After Shuttle Flight Aborted:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1056511&mesg_id=1056511

[Canuckistanian]

9. LMAO! Good one!

Them damned NASA flight operations teams are clearly librul commies...