Saturday, April 12, 2008

Hate speech from Father Greeley

We read:
"On April 2nd, the Chicago Sun-Times' Andrew Greeley accused anyone who isn't a Barack Obama fan of having a "sick mind." This takes political name calling to its worst level thus far in the campaign. Sadly - but all too typically - the sort of uncivil ignorance displayed by Greeley is exactly the kind we always see from liberals who want to shut down debate by an out of hand branding of their political opponents as bad people, not just people who have a difference of opinion. To hatemongers such as Greeley, conservatives aren't just wrong, they are evil and now he's decided that anyone who doubts Obama is mentally ill.

Greeley attacked conservative columnist Thomas Sowell, who Greeley claims has a "very clever" sick mind, as well as several others, some by name and others by inference. Greeley claimed that Sowell indulged in "hate" for Senator Obama in his columns. Naturally, Greeley doesn't give us any examples of "hate" for Obama, he merely states it outright as if it were axiomatic. In fact, he ascribes the emotion of "hate" as a result of a "sick mind" to several columns he alludes to but his only examples discuss interpretations of Obama's motivations and actions described by conservatives without any hateful rhetoric involved.

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Greeley would no doubt get on well with other Leftist priests such as Father Coughlin, were Coughlin still around.

I remember Greeley from decades ago. He used to be able to make an argument that inspired some thought, rather than mere derision. Perhaps dementia is setting in and it is HE who has a "sick mind". Seeing one's own faults in others ("projection") is after all common among Leftists.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thomas Sowell has a sick mind? He's one of the most brilliant, logical, fair-minded people around! A scientist recently said, after conducting a study, "liberalism is a mental disorder". Really!...... GSP

Anonymous said...

I come to destroy order, by request, to stir your pot FOR you, like adding a rabid albeit well-read pitbull adds blood letting to a territory. But don't expect civility if I skiff simple baiting.

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Music-wise, you might suggest Mozart, which indeed I am downloading 45 (!) "volumes" of, just as I might suggest to YOU pursue the best of rock-star Prince, despite a generation gap of 300 years.

'Adore' is pretty good.

Personally, I prefer the wordlessness of Khachaturian's 'Gayane Ballet Suite' to any other song.

Yet I modern music is a superior AND NECESSARY replacement of written verse ("poetry") except for a few quotes that still stick with me:

"I grow weary of poets, of the old and the new. Superficial I hold them all, shallow seas. They thought not deep enough: therefore their emotion reached not to the bottom. A little voluptuousness, a little tediousness: these have yet been their best meditations. Their harp-strummings are to me as the sighs and rustlings of ghosts; what have they known as yet of the ardours of music! Moreover I find them not cleanly enough: they all muddy their waters that they may seem deep. And they love to call themselves reconcilers: but to me are they go-betweens and meddlers, and half-breeds and uncleanly! Alas, I indeed cast my net in their seas and sought to catch good fish; but I ever drew up some old god's head." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathrusta 1891)

"The poet is unable to describe the harmony of music, because he has not the power to say different things at once." - Leonardo da Vinci (Codex Urbinas)

"They fluttered once, like gnats and young poets, round light and freedom. A little older, a little colder and speedily they became obscurantists and mumblers and stay-at-homes. Did their heart fail them because solitude swallowed me up like a whale? Did their ear crave long and vainly for me and my trumpet-peals and herald calls? Alas, there are ever but few of them whose heart hath enduring valour and gaiety; and in such the spirit is also patient. But the rest are cowards! The rest: they are ever the great majority, the commonplace, the superfluous, the much-too-many all these be cowards! To him that is of my kin will come the experiences of my kin: and therefore his first companions shall be corpses and buffoons. But his second companions they will call themselves his believers a living hive, much love, much folly, much beardless veneration. Whosoever is of my kin amongst men shall not bind his heart to these believers; whosoever knoweth the fickle and cowardly among men shall put no faith in such springtimes and bright-hued meadows! Could they do otherwise they would also will otherwise. Half-and-halfs spoil every whole. Leaves wither therefore lament it? Let them go, let them fall, O Zarathrstra, and lament not! Rather blow amongst them with rustling winds! Blow amongst these leaves, O Zarathustra, that all that is withered may run yet faster from thee!" - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathrusta 1891)

Opera in NYC is dead. They must use a slide projector to TRANSLATE the opera lyrics into English, on a screen above the performers, and tickets cost a hundred dollars.

To "infest" any part of the blogoshere would eventually mean that I pull people together. It's not easy, but it's not hard, either, for everybody wants the same thing: LOVE. There is no such thing as hatred. There is only spurned love, suspicious love, faded, rerouted and so on...LOVE.

I could go on for a hundred more pages, of the worlds of dead people who were not at all dead when they wrote BOOKS. Blogs don't change the world (yet). bit books still do.

Islam excluded. They need to die, for how else in a modern world can they fit into a century advance beyond simple dull-knife wielding savagery?

-=NYC=-

Anonymous said...

Greeley, and other left-leaning Catholics hate the notion of traditional Catholicism. They hate catholicfundamentalism.com even more. It says that "God can program in three dimensions, can program sub-programmers (angels), compile particles into structures and beings, and have them move through time. He did this in a week."

Anonymous said...

Father Greeley should ex-communicated from the church!

I figured a church that has liberal teachings isn't a church it's more like a social club and gathering than a house of worship.