{"id":5858,"date":"2013-06-17T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2013-06-17T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:05:20","slug":"heres-something-you-need-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5858","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s something you need to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>because it is as true as true can be.  Money quote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mukluk.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/15\/the-problem-of-evil\/#comment-8880\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have lost the ability to be disgusted and offended by evil\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rabbi Shmuley Boteach<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz puts the smackdown on our jaded nature. We&#8217;ve been taught to turn a blind eye, to not take offense. Fuck that. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Ed Hering has a <a href=\"http:\/\/atomic-fungus.livejournal.com\/989418.html\">similar lament:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s right! Along with no longer shaming women who get pregnant out of wedlock, we now don&#8217;t expect men who get those women pregnant to take any responsibility for it! After all, those women can get abortions or welfare! It&#8217;s a party! Whee!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WHat happened to morals? What happened to standards? What happened to people actually knowing what was right? <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a scene in &#8220;I walk the line&#8221; where Reese Witherspoon is confronted by the manager of a dime store. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five and Dime Manager: Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. <\/p>\n<p>June Carter: I&#8217;m sorry I let you down, ma&#8217;am. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today we&#8217;d say the woman was being judgemental. Well, she was. Why is it a bad thing to call it as you see it? And June Carter was suitably humbled and upset. <\/p>\n<p>I was taught to hate the sin and love the sinner. I can vouch for the fact that few people can out sin me, if I could play a guitar I&#8217;d be the best damned blues singer around. So while I won&#8217;t ever point at someone&#8217;s sins and claim to be better than they are, I will damned sure point at their sins and say &#8220;That&#8217;s wrong&#8221;.  I won&#8217;t ever not help someone find redemption for their sins, but I will damned sure tell them they should seek it. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, the biggest sin is to not be able to distinguish right from wrong, and call it when you see it. Pretending that &#8220;What those people are doing is none of my business&#8221; is how we get where we are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>because it is as true as true can be. Money quote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have lost the ability to be disgusted and offended by evil\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Liz puts the smackdown on our jaded nature. We&#8217;ve been taught to turn a blind eye, to not take offense. Fuck that. Elsewhere, Ed Hering has a similar lament: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}