Apr
18
2009
Take the following with a grain of salt, considering I’m doing very little blog-reading lately. First, for the dirt, check out:
Glenn Beck vs. Charles Johnson
and as usual, don’t forget to read the comments, both at Ace’s and the blogs he links to.
I was a big fan of Charles Johnson and LGF for a long time. I admired the fact that a passive liberal was seeing a little bit of the light when it came to politics, and a lot of the truth in the fight against jihadism. Heck, when it came to the latter, Charles was one of the first to try rallying support for the war using a blog. LGF was really the first blog I’d ever seen, and along with Best of the Web, I gave credit to Johnson in the dedication post as being an inspiration for this blog.
But like Dean Esmay, LGF has taken a few left turns that I can’t say I’ve admired. I parted ways with Dean following his drift back to the political middle during the most recent presidential election. In Johnson’s case, I’ve been trying to ignore the fact that the anti-jihadist is now on a crusade against ALL religion by tarring everything in sight with a label that defines it as either anti- or pro- in relation to the most burning debate in America today… creationism.
Creationism? Are you kidding me?
I don’t want this post to devolve deeply into that discussion, so let me just say this much: I believe in God, and I believe He created everything. And I believe that His methodology for creating everything probably involved something a little more complex than the snapping of giant omnipotent Fingers. St. Anselm said that God is that being greater than which none can be conceived, so the theory we call “evolution” is probably a lame oversimplification of how it all came to be. But notice that “oversimplification” implies it’s not untrue.
Put more succinctly, with respects to Heinlein: God is Deep. You can’t grok Him.
With that in mind, I do not fear those who attempt to teach “Intelligent Design”. I agree with their overall premise, but the details of their methodology are just plain silly. C’mon guys, you lost this fight 80 years ago in Tennessee, and you’re sounding like those who insist on calling it “The War of Northern Agression.” The South will NOT rise again – at least not under your terms. It’s over. Find a different tack.
That all said, Charles is paranoid and more than a little bigoted against those of us who care to respect an Intelligent Designer. When he goes after Glenn Beck and belittles those friends of mine attempting to hold the IRS at bay with nothing but bags of tea, he’s just too far gone in misunderstanding who the enemy is and what the fight is about.
So, I’m sorry to say, LGF is being reassigned to “Copperhead” status. The separating of the wheat and the chaff moves on….
Addendum: I just noticed that when I did the site redesign and added links to places I never would have linked before had it not been for The Civil War Blogroll, I missed a few people that I had to de-link years ago. Daily Dish has been put into Blockade Runners, and Hot Air has been added to Copperheads.