http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:23:47 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/20/145755.php#comment-212815 It is a shame, but you missed the whole point. Sexually transmitted diseases are spreading and most predominantly among those who practice a sinful lifestyle of homosexuality and extramarital sex. This is not a small percentage difference that we are talking about. Very few people that follow God's standard for sexual relationships contract sexually transmitted diseases. There is simply no way around the fact that the "wages of sin is death." Even people who sin by eating too much face increased health problems. It just happens that the "death" related to sexual sin comes in the form of sexually transmitted disease. 212815@blogcritics.org Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:23:47 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/20/145755.php#comment-104652 Criticisms of journalistic skills might include comment on people who incorrectly use "then" instead of "than" when making a comparison. 104652@blogcritics.org Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:54:20 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/20/145755.php#comment-104619 It's too bad you left the journalism field. America needs more correcting, investigative reporters like yourself. The most important way for an aristocracy/facism to take hold over the general populace, is to push forward the notion that they are morally, intellectually and spiritually superior than the general populace. Rhetorical garbage and falsehood such as you have pointed out, is one of the main ways to accomplish this. The most central feature of conservatism is deference: a psychologically internalized attitude on the part of the common people that the aristocracy are better people than they are. It is crucial to conservatism that the people must literally love the order that dominates them. Of course this notion sounds bizarre to modern ears, but it is perfectly overt in the writings of leading conservative theorists such as Burke. People who believe that the aristocracy (elite) rightfully dominates society because of its intrinsic superiority are Conservatives; Democrats, by contrast, believe that they are of equal social worth. The Religious Right and their misinformation is one of the key ways to gain this illusion of superiority. 104619@blogcritics.org Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:26:59 EST