Hail to "The Grand Pooh-Bah" of
reality!!!
I bow to your great wisdom and sense of
reality!
(And keep in mind I normally reserve my bowing to
Jesus........and sometimes the wife.) LOL
Clay
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:19
AM
Subject: our kickin' sitchyashun
Morning, visionaries,
The remarkable thing about
relativism is that, for all the adverstising hype, it really isn't that
elastic. It never stretches very far, and only stretches to the
left.
Ted tells John Harrell to keep his "simple minded insults against
women" to himself. John Harrell's attitude is the "real obscenity." Really?
There is such a thing as real obscenity? By what standard? Not only is this is
the case, but Ted tells John that if he called any woman a "slut," he would
get a response commensurate, etc. Ted, if I were the owner of a restaurant,
could a commensurate response be kicking someone out?
You all are in a
hopeless bind here. Standards are inescapable. Imposed standards are
inescapable. You want to pretend that this is not the case, all the while
vigorously telling us how you would impose them. The funniest thing about this
is that you cannot see (or will not admit) what you are doing. We
(conservative Christians) have a standard, we know the basis for it, and we
are willing to live by it and defend it. You have a standard, you are willing
to impose it on the rest of us, but when called upon to defend or explain your
standard (and why it is authoritative over all of us), you surround yourselves
with a cloud of cliches. But no society can exist unless the adherents of the
worldview in power are willing to act via the law as though the
adherents of various minority views are just flat wrong. Just admit that this
is what you are currently doing to us. The rest of your day will be sunny and
filled with epistemic relief.
Cordially,
Douglas
Wilson