What is being destroyed in your life because of your devout religious beliefs and your strict adherence to your holy scriptures and to the men who tell you what they mean?
I say again: Unreasoning belief, belief without evidence, faith, is a very serious moral error. And when some yahoo tries to explain away unbelievable nonsense with appeals to faith, retells the story of Abraham and Isaac and croons “Do y-o-o-o-u have that much faith?” — run for your life, because that’s what’s at stake.
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Turns out that fomenting conspiracies against himself is pretty much a staple of how Todd Courser does business.
As you might have expected, the twisted stupid saga of Todd Courser, the Michigan state representative who faked a gay-hooker scandal to cover up his genuine heterosex affair with another legislator, state Rep. Cindy Gamrat, and then claimed that he was being blackmailed, has taken another weird turn. A Michigan political blogger says this isn’t Courser’s first attempt at Nixonian ratfucking: Last year, during an extremely close Republican primary for the 82nd state House district, Courser allegedly faked a smear campaign against himself, claiming that some unknown enemy had distributed fliers accusing him of being a child molester.
Next up: The church tour, where he pleads the work of demons, begs forgiveness, then is enthusiastically hugged to the bosom of Abraham and elected to Congress.
In the happiest place in history, there will be no weddings, no matrimony, no sex. http://t.co/4F95ULuww3
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) August 11, 2015
Days after Courser told a staffer of plan to send out emails trashing himself the staffer got a 6 percent raise http://t.co/XMmWF7e5KN
— MIRSnews.com (@MIRSnews) August 11, 2015
This story is, like, a banquet for those of us who love politico-religio nuttery.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities§380
Systematic falsification of history so that it may present a proof of the moral valuations.
The decline of a people and corruption.
The rise of a people and virtue.
The zenith of a people (“its culture”) regarded as the result of high moral excellence.
Systematic falsification of great men, great creators and great periods. The desire is to make faith that which distinguishes great men: whereas carelessness in this respect, scepticism, “immorality”, the right to repudiate a belief, belongs to greatness (Caesar, Frederick the Great, Napoleon; but also Homer, Aristophanes, Leonardo, Goethe). The principal fact their “free will” is always suppressed.
Thus bona fide pseudo-historian David Barton.