To be, or not to be...'tis not a question! 'To be' for us. And through our manly warfare, 'Not to be' for lib'ral commie traitors And all who toil and strive to undermine Th'almighty Market, Whose invisible hand Moves wealth and weal toward those who have in plenty, And swells the ranks of those who do without.
...Where wast I? Ah, yes, forsooth, Mine uncle is a goodly rotten apple And I perforce will slay him for his crimes By nuking his estates until they glow. Nothing's rotten in the state of Denmark That blist'ring radiation will not cure.
...[Satan] the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire Who durst defy th' United States to arms.
* Milton may be conservative already, but he's not American Conservative!
How big is this movement? There is a pretty long thread on one of the Christian Forums I occasionally post on and the responses can roughly be broken down as follows:
75% have never heard of it; 24% think it is stupid, funny, or heresy; 1% like it.
It's as big as the Conservapedia editorial staff plus dedicated contributors, which is (so far as I understand it) tiny. Certainly not nearly so large as the group that will be making fun of the Bible Rewriting Project. Fred Clark argues that it's important because it demonstrates the future of American evangelicalism, and while I certainly hope he's wrong, I can't argue convincingly that he is.
I just wondered. The Christian Forum I perused is a fairly mixed group, but it contains a decent number of people that believe society is 'too liberal' and would buy a Beck/Limbaugh 2012 bumper sticker. I only found a few people that were willing to defend the Conservative Bible, and even they were just saying that they wanted to read more about it before they decided.
I don't believe this helps Conservatives or Evangelicals in any way.
Certainly a fair point. For me, the group is simply symptomatic of broader problems in evangelical Christianity. Broader problems like the fact that so many listen to Beck and Limbaugh, for example. And even broader problems of anti-intellectualism that has led to a real wide spread denial of science and knowledge.
To be, or not to be...'tis not a question!
ReplyDelete'To be' for us. And through our manly warfare,
'Not to be' for lib'ral commie traitors
And all who toil and strive to undermine
Th'almighty Market, Whose invisible hand
Moves wealth and weal toward those who have in plenty,
And swells the ranks of those who do without.
...Where wast I? Ah, yes, forsooth,
Mine uncle is a goodly rotten apple
And I perforce will slay him for his crimes
By nuking his estates until they glow.
Nothing's rotten in the state of Denmark
That blist'ring radiation will not cure.
Always mark thy ballots for Republicans.
Or perhaps a Conservative Milton* Project?
ReplyDelete...[Satan] the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire
Who durst defy th' United States to arms.
* Milton may be conservative already, but he's not American Conservative!
Very nice! Both of them. Far more creative than I this cold and fever plagued weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks. :) Hope you feel better.
ReplyDeleteHow big is this movement? There is a pretty long thread on one of the Christian Forums I occasionally post on and the responses can roughly be broken down as follows:
ReplyDelete75% have never heard of it;
24% think it is stupid, funny, or heresy;
1% like it.
It's as big as the Conservapedia editorial staff plus dedicated contributors, which is (so far as I understand it) tiny. Certainly not nearly so large as the group that will be making fun of the Bible Rewriting Project. Fred Clark argues that it's important because it demonstrates the future of American evangelicalism, and while I certainly hope he's wrong, I can't argue convincingly that he is.
ReplyDeleteI just wondered. The Christian Forum I perused is a fairly mixed group, but it contains a decent number of people that believe society is 'too liberal' and would buy a Beck/Limbaugh 2012 bumper sticker. I only found a few people that were willing to defend the Conservative Bible, and even they were just saying that they wanted to read more about it before they decided.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this helps Conservatives or Evangelicals in any way.
Certainly a fair point. For me, the group is simply symptomatic of broader problems in evangelical Christianity. Broader problems like the fact that so many listen to Beck and Limbaugh, for example. And even broader problems of anti-intellectualism that has led to a real wide spread denial of science and knowledge.
ReplyDelete