Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Revealed Religion is under attack

sayeth Jeff Jacoby, from no less a titan than Elton John.
This is one of Jeff's fabled howlers, a column thick with unintentional hilarity. For out of such measly stuff as one atheist California Congressman, Chris "the snitch" Hitchens and a vapid Time cover article he contructs a big scary secular humanist bloc that is gunning for revealed religion and book worshippers everywhere.
Jeff quotes Elton John as musing about "banning religion", this is a nazi-soviet type thought so bleats our Laughing Young Senescence. To me, there seems to be a big laughable gap between a paunchy old British Glam Rocker and Der Fuhrer.
Of course, stop and think, so many religions out there, wanna "ban" Sir Elton and his homosexuality, is it any wonder he wants to fire back in the same manner?
It's understandable, even if I don't approve of the notion.
Modern conservatism, even in its degraded current condition, is ever needful of big scary entirely imaginary monsters with which to slay or use in fundraising appeals. Today's column is entirely in that vein full of undeserved self pity and inexplicable persecution mania.

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