Bill Maher is coming to town.
Maher is best known to national teevee audiences for performing
the singularly arduous and theretofore unprecedented feat of grievously offending the Catholic League's William A. Donohue.
"I'm pretty good about picking out who queers are and I didn't see any in the movie. I'm usually pretty good at that." — Wild Bill Donohue
DEVELOPING ...
It would somehow make more sense if the Professionally Outraged Offended Right would at least own up to their basic organizing principle of permanently hurt feelings.
ReplyDeleteIt just becomes all the more mind-bending when one realizes that the POOR will almost certainly not get through this breath without also raging about those stupid politically correct liberals, who (everyone knows) are continually outraged and constantly demanding that others conform to their speech codes.
And it's perfectly fine for McAdams and his right-wing friends to criticize other religious beliefs as being too liberal for their personal tastes, or advertise and defend a visit by David Horowitz to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as follows:
ReplyDelete"Horowitz is a highly controversial speaker, since he says things that are considered 'offensive' (supposedly) to Muslim students."
But for the non-religious to criticize religion, well, that's simply not acceptable.
No, but there's a lot of Christians in Milwaukee, and not many Muslims. See, if there were more Muslims, then it would have been offensive bigotry to have Horowitz there.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, you might have missed that McAdams tosses off the suggestion that Maher is offensive to the Islamic crowd as well: "[WKLH] too appear not to mind insulting Christians -- and Muslims too." (In case worrying about Muslims happens to float your boat, I guess...)
"Sensible Muslims," at least:
ReplyDelete"Sensible Muslims (like sensible blacks) get pretty much ignored." -- John McAdams
It's unclear which hermeneutic McAdams applies to separate the sensible Muslims from the non-sensible ones, let alone the sensible blacks or -- heaven help us -- the black Muslims.
I like the POOR acronym, anonymous.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that anything a secular liberal says or does is "insulting to Christians?" I know plenty of Christians who aren't offended by my secular humanist views. Heck, my mom is a Christian. A Catholic, even! She, obviously, is a failure...
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So's my mom, and she still loves me, in spite of the torching churches and devouring the innocent flesh of infants.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm... Baby flesh...
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