tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post114163364572894487..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Flash! Dennis Prager Predicts Oscar™ Upset Thirteen Years Ago!James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1142023668414872922006-03-10T15:47:00.000-05:002006-03-10T15:47:00.000-05:00I used to be uncertain whether the supidest man on...I used to be uncertain whether the supidest man on the planet was Dennist Prager or Cal Thomas. Then Cal Thomas actually said some sensible things about the intelligent design trial in Dover PA. (He approved of the judge's ruling.)<BR/><BR/>Prager wins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141913192478868372006-03-09T09:06:00.000-05:002006-03-09T09:06:00.000-05:00I guess we're all picking out our "favorite" (in t...I guess we're all picking out our "favorite" (in the sense of jaw-droppingly obtuse) passages. Here's mine:<BR/><BR/><I>It is the Hebrew Bible that gave humanity such ideas as a universal, moral, loving God;</I><BR/><BR/>Prager must have special wingnut definitions of those terms, where "universal" means 'associated with one tribe out of many in a region', "moral" means 'setting out arbitrary Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141739597092629162006-03-07T08:53:00.000-05:002006-03-07T08:53:00.000-05:00What's baffling to me is that a large number of th...What's baffling to me is that a large number of the ancient societies he lists, numerous ones went on to become inredibly great. The Greeks, The Romans, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Chinese, the Mesopotamians... All of these societies had the kind of sexualisation he's talking about, and yet at the same time they were incredibly successful civilisations, whose inventions, from writing to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141677230209812252006-03-06T15:33:00.000-05:002006-03-06T15:33:00.000-05:00It must be so much more fun to be a wingnut than i...It must be so much more fun to be a wingnut than it is to be a liberal. You can just make stuff up. No more research or logical thought or history, you can write whatever happens to justify your own personal worldview. <BR/><BR/>Forget reality, I wanna be a wingnut! I think I'll start by writing a column on how Western Civilization was created by carnivorous space monkeys, and anyone who saysAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141670230280217162006-03-06T13:37:00.000-05:002006-03-06T13:37:00.000-05:00My my, shades of Civilization and Its Discontents....My my, shades of <I>Civilization and Its Discontents</I>.<BR/><BR/><I>Thus, the first thing Judaism did was to de-sexualize God: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” by his will, not through any sexual behavior. </I><BR/><BR/>Hold on a minnit. Didn't God create <I>man</I> in <B>his own image and likeness</B>? Therefore we must assume that God has a penis, yes? So, here's God, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141663884469445982006-03-06T11:51:00.000-05:002006-03-06T11:51:00.000-05:00Jews or Christians who take the Bible's views on e...<I>Jews or Christians who take the Bible's views on eating shellfish seriously are not obligated to prove that they are not fundamentalists or literalists, let alone bigots (though, of course, people have used the Bible to defend bigotry). Rather, those who claim the consumption of shellfish is compatible with Judaism or Christianity bear the burden of proof to reconcile this view with their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141662673352683852006-03-06T11:31:00.000-05:002006-03-06T11:31:00.000-05:00It looks like he wrote this using the Focus On The...It looks like he wrote this using the Focus On The Family MadLibs book. <BR/>His point seems to be that if people get to screw without getting married, it makes married people have to have boring and depressing sex. <BR/><BR/>Dennis, your neuroses are your own problem. May I recommend a therapist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1141638805929622772006-03-06T04:53:00.000-05:002006-03-06T04:53:00.000-05:00prager, who's jewish, works for evangelical protes...prager, who's jewish, works for evangelical protestants. that makes him a putz in my book.<BR/><BR/>plus, all this going on about sex ... goddamm, this whole fear of it. it's puzzling.<BR/><BR/>but he is right about one thing. guys would fuck just about anything.<BR/><BR/>iirc, another jewish social commentator once said, "men would schtup mud if they have half the chance."<BR/><BR/>that was T.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10118736826323475876noreply@blogger.com