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August 30, 2010One crucial element of the American subconscious is about to become salient and explicit and highly volatile. It is the realization that white America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority.
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Smithite!
Oh dear, this does somewhat puncture FGFM's much repeated thesis. Funny that.
Ha ha! I LOLled and ROFLed and ROFLMAOed when I wrote this:
FGFM's thesis:
"Hitchens claims he hates all religions but have you noticed he only goes after one religious group: Muslims?"
"What? How about his arrest-the-pope stuff? And his attack on Mother Teresa!"
"Hitchens claims to be against all religions but he only picks on two groups: Muslims and Catholics, then. This is very easy targetting of minority groups in America!"
"Muslims and Catholics are still very populous, though! And what about his going after Evangelical Christians like Falwell and Haggard and others?"
"Hitchens claims to be against all religions buit only goes after three groups Muslims, Catholics and Christian evangelicals!"
"And orthodox Jews who think Israel is the holy land and practioners of circumcision and he apparently told an anti-semetic joke once and his 'followers" persecuted poor FGFM!"
"OK OK OK! Stop it! Hitchens pretends to be against all religions but only has a beef with four groups: Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Jews!"
"Beef? What did he say about Ghandi being a Hindu fundamentalist? And Buddhists such as the Dalai Lama!"
"Oh Shuddup!! I didn't expect the Hitchensian Inquisition! Right, Hitchens pretends to hate all religions but only criticises six groups: Muslims, Catholics, evangelical Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists...."
"...Mormons!
"Mormons! He does NOT! He sometimes picks on left-wing Mormons like Harry Reid just because Hitchens is a Republican hack!"
"And Mitt Romney!"
"Yes, Mitt Romney too but not a mainstream Republican Mormon such as Glenn Beck!"
"He just had a go at Glenn Beck!"
"ERRRR... What?" *brain explodes*
FGFM'S new thesis: "Whites are now a minority group in America so typically Hitchens attacks them. He's just going after minorities! That Hitchens! What a hypocrite! So selective!"
This does not fit neatly into hitchwatch's delusional worldview
Don't worry, they'll make it fit. Paranoids are effortless re-arrangers and re-jiggers.
"What have the Romans ever done for us"?
Don't worry about Hitchwatch. They'll tie this one to his incipient demise. "Pathetic, dying Hitchens disgracefully trying to claw back into the good graces of those on the left he betrayed" is the likely theme. Greywolf (aka "The Sage") will use two thousand words- and fifteen lame jokes- to get there though.
Decents declare victory!
FGFM had his pet Theory, and it was charming and commendable for him to try his little hand at understanding this world as it blizzards by on his computer screen, alas, indeed, he made a bit of an arse of himself. Such are the risks of Theories, as he should well know, if he wasn't quite such a mind-blind autist. Funny that.
Got any more blinding insights?
FGFM's theory is indeed only a theory. The idea of a Young Earth is another gem of a theory (although I'd submit that one to be a tad more respectable).
Contrast and compare.
http://www.slate.com/id/2265515/
quasi-educated Mormon broadcaster...
http://machineslikeus.com/articles/CultsAndReligions.html
CH: A Mormon mediocrity, and extraordinary, sort of reactionary, nullity.
HH: Now isn't that bigoted to say a Mormon mediocrity, Christopher Hitchens?
CH: No, no. I'm always in favor of pointing out which cult people belong to.
HH: You see, I think that is very, very harsh and offensive, but I will allow the Mormon listeners to call you on that.
CH: No, he's a Smithite, for Heaven's sake. I mean, he believes that some idiot found gold plates buried in the ground.
HH: But it is religious bigotry to call that out. And do you make similar comments...
CH: No, it's not me who says he's a Mormon. Excuse me, it's he who says it.
HH: I know that, but I still think...
CH: I say that anyone who believes that stuff is an idiot.
HH: I know you believe that, but isn't it sort of randomly bigoted to bring that out and throw it onto the table?
CH: Not at all, no. It's essential to point out...
HH: I disagree.
CH: Especially at a time when people are always saying it's the Republican Party that's run by religious crackpots and nutbags. And it's very important to point out these people have a big foothold in the Democratic Party, too.
HH: I think that's terribly religiously bigoted. I think that is up there with, like, saying about Jesse Jackson that he's African-American in the course of commenting on him.
CH: Well, I don't really see how he could keep that a secret, how one could...
HH: Well, it's not a secret that he's a Mormon. It's just sort of a random attack on a guy's faith. I don't like Reid at all, but...
CH: No, I think less of him because of the stupid cult of which he's a member. I would say the same if he was a Scientologist.
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Now, who do you think got a harder time from Hitchens for being a Mormon, Beck or Reid?
And of course, it's ultimately the Muslims' fault.
http://www.slate.com/id/2265515/
More recently, almost every European country has seen the emergence of populist parties that call upon nativism and give vent to the idea that the majority population now feels itself unwelcome in its own country. The ugliness of Islamic fundamentalism in particular has given energy and direction to such movements.
"Now, who do you think got a harder time from Hitchens for being a Mormon, Beck or Reid?"
asks the lovable FGFM.
Harry Reid (Senate Majority Leader) versus Glenn Beck (TV clown). Why, that's an Indecent True Equivalence!!! Another triumpoh for the HitchWatch!!!
triumpoh (sic)
Indeed.
More unintentional Pythonesque hilarity from FGFM.
Cut-and-spam, Spam-and-paste, cut, paste and spam, spam and spam, spam, spam, spam and spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam...
Indeed!
Short of a blog idea? Here's one: FGFMwatch.com. "We watch FGFM so you don't..Nah, you watch him too".
He's(I'm) a Lovable Loser.
I object. He may be ferocious, but he can't play me-ly. "Ferocious Guitarist Frets Masturbatorily" is much better.
FGFM's still tinkering with his little pet Theory: Hitchens is a shill for a vague and shadowy cabal of big bad man (possibly Jewish, or Zionist at least; Hitchens, in FGFM's often expressed calculus, is after-all a crypto-Jew), and we know this through those that Hitchens chooses not to attack, i.e. Glenn Beck and a smattering of Evangelical Christians? "Oh, he has and does criticise them? Well, not enough I say! Now, if you will please excuse, I must scuttle back to my cavern of catch-phrases; this hazarding of ideas and argument is mighty fraught, and not my strong suit. Indeed."
Hitchens is a shill for a vague and shadowy cabal of big bad man [sic] (possibly Jewish, or Zionist at least; Hitchens, in FGFM's often expressed calculus, is after-all a crypto-Jew)
Bullshit.
Nope. You always say he is a crypto-Jew, or a closeted Jew, if you will, forcing Jewish religious education on his children against his wife's objections.
You have said this dozens of times.
To be honest, you don't have the best of track-records when it comes to peddling your tin-cup Theories. Some of them are downright distasteful!
You always say he is a crypto-Jew, or a closeted Jew, if you will, forcing Jewish religious education on his children against his wife's objections.
Well, maybe it's over his daughter's objections.
Hitchens Debates Rabbi Wolpe on God
Mr. Hitchens said his daughter “has to sit through a little Passover ceremony every year whether she wants to or not,” and that at the seder, he tries to explain the links between Jerusalem and Athens — the relationship between the recumbent dinner and the asking of questions to the Platonic idea of the group symposium.
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Some atheist, eh?
Yeah, shocking. I hear Richard Dawkins celebrates Christmas too. Colour me aghast.
Yeah, shocking. I hear Richard Dawkins celebrates Christmas too. Colour me aghast.
He's another phony along with Pat Condell. I don't see why supposedly militant atheists have to play favorites with religion.
You don't see a lot of things, friend.
As I said, you think Hitchens is really a Jew, or a least Jew-ish, but he likes to hide it: a crypto-Jew.
It's an odd little world you inhabit, running around debunking phonies and setting frauds to rights. Chucklesome indeed.
As I said, you think Hitchens is really a Jew, or a least Jew-ish, but he likes to hide it: a crypto-Jew.
I guess that's why he repeatedly mentions this Seder business in interviews.
It's an odd little world you inhabit, running around debunking phonies and setting frauds to rights.
Some religions are more equal than others.
"Some religions are more equal than others."
Absolutely.
Absolutely
QED.
Deeply bewildered autist declares victory.
I(we) would never force my(our) daughter to sit through a Seder. Literally impossible. Two reasons- first, my(our) furious and unalterable imbecility would prevent it. Second, procreation requires, at a minimum, pleasant interaction with a woman. That cannot happen in my(our) case.
"Mindreaderdreader" (sic)
Your mom doesn't think so.
Some atheists are more theist than others.
Stop plagirizing me, asshole.
Decent petty bourgeois philistine.
Some religions are more equal than others.
I don't think Hitchens thinks all religions are equally bad. SOme are worse than others. Like, pre-Vatican II Catholicism was worse than post-VAtican II Catholicism. He obviously belives this otherwise he wouldn't say that Mel Gibson's CAtholicism and Rowan Wilkinson's CAtholicism is more extreme and evil and anti-semitic than mainstream CAtholicism. He obviously thinks that old-time Mormonism was worse than recent Mormonism because look at his talk about the sons of Ham which was part of the racist creed of Mormonism that was later dropped. So, yes, some religions are worse than others and he probably does think that militant Islam is currently the most dangerous.
This is not a hard idea to grasp.
Depends who's doing the grasping.
Four legs good, two legs better!
Militant Islamism good, ginger-whiskered meek-as-milk COE better!
God is not great, but some gods are greater than others!
God is not great, but some gods are greater than others!
Must...expose...hippocrates!
You look silly!
Must...expose...hippocrates! [sic]
Well done!
"God is not great, but some gods are greater than others!"
Now you're just confused. Really, FGFM, stick to the catchphrases. You are custard-thick.
Hippocrate. [sic]
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