June 27, 2006 Idiots of The Catholic Blogosphere
Posted by Ryan W. McMaken at June 27, 2006 10:12 PM
I've been killing a few minutes here and there lately visiting the Catholic blogosphere. I'm occasionally alarmed at what I find. I'm ashamed that this guy considers himself some kind of paragon of Catholic orthodoxy. The site is actually quite entertaining when discusing anything other than politics. Alas, when politics intervenes out comes the war-loving, baby-bombing, excuse-making, flag-waving paranoia of someone who has apparently confused the United States government with the Kingdom of Heaven.
Since our dear leaders depend on blind hatred of Ay-rabs and Muslims, such people must toe the line even in the smallest matters. Today, the blogger links to an article about a man who recently went postal on his co-workers in Denver. Not exactly earth-shaking you say, people do this in the Americna heartland fairly regularly. Oh, but you see, this particular guy was a Muslim, (as the blogger righteously points out) and thus, is inherently more violent than the Christians who blow away their co-workers. Basically the blogger's argument is: Muslim = murderer. Three cheers for religious bigotry, I guess. Alas, I bet a lot of Muslim-hating Christians are making this same "argument" as I write this.
In an interesting twist, it turns out the blogger has moved to the US from Germany. I think I'll apply his same standard for "argumentation": I read a blog by a German today. As you would expect, he was making bigoted comments, and this is not surprising since all Germans tend toward Nazism.