Friday, December 07, 2018

Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says



Once again, Mr. Sullivan has wandered way, way out into the poppy fields to publicly muse about Very Important Things Like the Meaning of Fucking Life You Assholes.

And once again, Mr. Sullivan has failed to heed the dangers of chugging all the communion wine and huffing all the poppers on his road to satori.  Because wherever he thought he was headed in this latest, maundering adventure in Lecturing Everyone About Jebus and Science and Atheism and Shit, Mr. Sullivan ended up in the same place it always seems to end up:  passed out in a puddle of his own hectoring, contrarian-because-contrarian-is-my-brand Both Siderist sick.

Here's a sample.
America’s New Religions

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Now look at our politics. We have the cult of Trump on the right, a demigod who, among his worshippers, can do no wrong. And we have the cult of social justice on the left, a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical. They are filling the void that Christianity once owned, without any of the wisdom and culture and restraint that Christianity once provided.
And what is there to make of this is but Mr. Sullivan getting up on his hind legs and begging to be invited back on Bill Maher's show?
Which is to say, even today’s atheists are expressing an attenuated form of religion. Their denial of any God is as absolute as others’ faith in God, and entails just as much a set of values to live by — including, for some, daily rituals like meditation, a form of prayer.
I would say we should let poor old Andy sleep off his bombast bender, but in all the many years he has been cranking out drivel like this for money, he has yet to sleep it off.


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6 comments:

bobsboats said...

Yes such restraint- the Inquisition, The Crusades, conquest of the "new world", the largest slave trade ever, the 100 Years War through the Iraq war-if Christians get any more restrained we'll be left with a smoking ash heap...

mcfrank said...

Dammit -- you almost had me looking up Andy's ravings just to see how he distinguishes "social justice" from "Christianity". But I quickly remembered that in his case, Christianity probably has little to do with the teachings of the Christ and more to due with the ponderous majesty of the Magisterium.

Robt said...

Not sure if it helps, but Andrew doesn't only indulge out loud , his least considered thoughts.

He also puts them in writings.

When it comes to Andy's auditioning for the Pope job. I hope he likes the black smoke. As it pertains to the Vatican smoke.
There is white smoke and there is black smoke. each of their own side. neither mean or do as the other smoke.

Andrew eventually will need more provocative sentences of words to convey to the wayward down below him in the valley of weak soup culture.

As it seems, Andrew also tells us. Atop his illustrative elite mountain, were he dwells his sole meaning of existence. To piss down on those below Twp things come to mind from down in the valley looking up.

* Never a "Good Samaritan" has ever been known on bullshit mountain.
*How does Andy's bothsider work with Jesus and Satan?

My popcorn is getting cold, Andy..!

dave said...

'And we have the cult of social justice on the left, a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical. They are filling the void that Christianity once owned, without any of the wisdom and culture and restraint that Christianity once provided.'


this was from yesterday in phoenix:'Report shows 8 Jesuit priests accused of sex abuse worked at Brophy High School'

annnd what did you today in school andy??

Neo Tuxedo said...

I quickly remembered that in his case, Christianity probably has little to do with the teachings of the Christ and more to due with the ponderous majesty of the Magisterium.

When I first read that comment, earlier today, it genuinely took me a moment to realize you were talking about the OTL Catholic Church hierocracy, not the grim gray theocracy of Philip Pullman's Dust books.

Jon Rudd said...

"Cult of social justice."
Nothing about that in the New Testament!