of people I know are fond of denigrating people of faith- many of them ostensibly people of faith themselves- using terms like “Taliban like” to describe the actions of Christians they don’t like.

Many of these people are otherwise thoughtful and intelligent. I wonder that the irony of their position is lost so completely on them; they practice, vehemently, the exact sort of intolerance they profess to despise.

Often in between jobs I listen to Rush, because rush. (I am always amused to find that most of his detractors are so much like him as to have attitudes indistinguishable from his). Anyway, here’s a bit he did on Tuesday that resonated.

“Liberalism exists in many ways as a force of nature or whatever political power aligned against the religious teachings and views of morality, virtue, discipline, temperance, you name it. The American left abhors these aspects of organized religion.”

“I think the thing liberals really love about gay marriage is how they get to ram it down the throats of the Christians. That’s what I think, how they just get to smack ’em upside the head, gay marriage, supporting LGBT, normalizing this and that. I think it’s a direct assault on organized religion.”

yeah, I know, I’m a hatey mchaterson. And I’m a poopy head. But only to people who never listen to what I say, only what the voices in their head think I said. Anyone who actually knows me knows better, people would rather cling to their misperceptions about me than bother to get to know who I am.