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You have this, therefore that – Leftist Logic
Tim Egan, professor emeritus of Harvard University, with a masters degree in molecular biology, atmospheric climate sciences and a doctorate in paleontology and mathematics, pens a piece for the NYT’s calling the GOP the stupid party. This declaration rests mainly on his denunciation of people of faith.
Apparently, politicians can’t be stupid unless they believe in the Bible. Apparently the left is completely Godless, how else would Egan explain the current holder of the title “the Dumbest Man Holding the Highest position of Political Importance” – Joe Biden.
Ostensibly, you can be dumb as shit as long as you carry the water for climate change, abortion on demand and every other crackpot leftist view. You see, in Egan’s world, if you can find dumb republicans, ipso facto, leftist policies are smart. See how that works? Bible thumpers are dumb, therefore Leftism is the way to go.
There’s a problem with that thesis:
John Dingell, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murphy, Dianne Feinstein, Charlie Rangel, Pete Defazio, Rosa DeLauro, Jerry Nadler, Hank Johnson, Eddie Johnson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz…
These are simply not smart people. Should I follow them off the cliff, blind faith-y?
The other part of the faulty thesis is that Egan has no idea what the steadfast religious beliefs of the democratic members of the senate and congress are. Some on this list can have a deep abiding faith in their Christian values. If that’s the case, shouldn’t that subject them to Egan’s pointing and laughing?
I can’t believe a professor emeritus would actua— what’s that?
Update: I’m being told in my earpiece that my short bio for Egan is incorrect. Turns out he’s just a stupid schmuck with a keyboard – like me.
Here’s a bit of his essay:
Take a look around key committees of the House and you’ll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missouri’s Representative Todd Akin’s take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who’s been raped.
On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.
The chairman of a subcommittee that oversees issues related to climate change, Representative John Shimkus of Illinois is — you guessed it — a climate-change denier.
At a 2009 hearing, Shimkus said not to worry about a fatally dyspeptic planet: the biblical signs have yet to properly align. “The earth will end only when God declares it to be over,” he said, and then he went on to quote Genesis at some length. It’s worth repeating: This guy is the chairman.
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I can deny climate change without ever bringing up the Bible. I can use peer-reviewed science. Now what, Egan?
Are you just having too much fun bashing Christians to address the logical folly of your screed?
Billy Fuster
August 25th, 2012
The GOP IS the stupid party. Who else pays taxes to fund their own destruction? Whose “leaders” don’t cry out for a tax revolution to stop the madness? Whose members don’t realize their “leaders” are paid token opposition to the socialists?
Xavier
August 25th, 2012
It’s the Logic of Conceit. If you agree with me, you’re intelligent. Otherwise, not.
And the Grand Pooh-Bah is running the show.
jwm
August 25th, 2012
You can be all kinds of smart, and still not have enough wisdom to fit in a thimble. That’s why mensa members have Auto Club. Most of them aren’t capable of working a lug wrench.
JWM
Maudie N Mandeville
August 25th, 2012
@X: I agree with you.
Xavier
August 25th, 2012
@Maudie N Mandeville
Either that was the greatest sarc I’ve ever seen, or you’re very intelligent!
Or both.
Frosteetoes
August 25th, 2012
No mention of Islam from little Timmy the pompous nerd. Open season to attack Christians, world over.
Doc
August 25th, 2012
Not the first over educated asshole I’ve seen. Probably too stupid to use a can opener and would probably starve to death if he didn’t have someone to feed him.
scribble
August 25th, 2012
OT: Big refinery explosion in Venezuela. I’m waiting for obama to divert US oil reserves, money and manpower to help his pal. And to apologize for any American technology that “contributed” to the explosion.
Friend of the family
August 25th, 2012
Thanks Fur. This one hit me hard. A moving essay. Even more emotional, was watching Rep. John Shimkus, causing me to be filled with the Holy Spirit and hanging onto my chair–not easy. That’s right Mr. Shimkus, don’t worry about what comes out of your mouth in the council of the ungodly; God will cause the words to fall from your lips in defiance of their animosity and insidiousness! Halleluiah!
So they figure Christians are stupid huh? God gives knowledge and wisdom freely to ALL men. If someone’s dumb, it’s not because of his or her faith; it’s his or her’s lack of education or his or her’s limited mental capacity. Some people are born smarter than others. Eat it!
Finally, to put to rest these pagan and hedonistic ignoramuses, I shall quote:
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
1 Corinthians 1:25
Aidan
August 25th, 2012
Has Mr. Egan pried his head out of his ass yet?
mkultra
August 25th, 2012
I forget, does ‘peer-reviewed’ mean ‘the guys who help me steal money and bu11shi7 the public will vouch for me’?
NoMoBo
August 25th, 2012
“Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers”
I’m supposed to take seriously a man who writes a sentence like that? Nope.
mkultra
August 25th, 2012
If mrs. mkultra looked like Tim Egan’s wife, I’d spend more time thinking about catastrophe fantasies too.
Tim Egan
August 25th, 2012
“Are you just having too much fun bashing Christians to address the logical folly of your screed?”
Why hello, peasant! Perhaps you did not understand the meaning of my title “Harvard Professor Emeritus”. I am the elite of the elite. The most intelligent of the most intelligent. Put simply, if I may cite to one of the so-called “moving pictures” which you rabble seem to enjoy: “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.” What I say simply IS. Your diminutive intellect sadly cannot comprehend the world, so you rely on baser urges, such as racism and primitive mythologies, to deny universally obvious truths, such as a woman’s right to choose and global climate change. That is why it falls to us, your betters, to lead you, willingly or not, into the Glorious Socialist Utopia of Reason. Failing that, you must be eradicated from existence, much like smallpox.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 25th, 2012
@Billy Fuster: “Whose “leaders” don’t cry out for a tax revolution to stop the madness?”
Uh, taxes pay the GOP’s salaries and benefits, too. They ain’t giving that up just to satisfy the wishes of some upstart peasants who don’t understand their place in the world.
Hassan bin Layyed
August 25th, 2012
@Frosteetoes: “No mention of Islam from little Timmy the pompous nerd. Open season to attack Christians, world over.”
Turning the other cheek is far less effective in silencing critics that beheading them or blowing them up. Watch and learn, infidel!
Unneutral
August 25th, 2012
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a reasonable explanation as to why some libtards claim to be Catholic, such as, Pelosi, Ted Kennedy or what about Scary Reid that claims to be Moron, I mean Mormon?
jwm
August 25th, 2012
@Tim Egan:
Well done!
JWM
Stranded in Sonoma
August 26th, 2012
And the award for the most conceited and pretentious douchebag goes to…
Bob M.
August 26th, 2012
HAH-VUD, eh?
Wasn’t that started as a little ol’ Taxachusetts Bible-thumping College?
Sorry – I can’t take him seriously now, what with all his whacko BIBLE-COLLEGE degrees…
FreeMan - Next Time Sarah - 2016
August 26th, 2012
@X: I agree with you too. Really!
IronyCurtain
August 26th, 2012
“Peer reviewed” always makes me laugh. EcoLunatic Ed Begley, Jr. is always screaming about this.
Here’s how it works:
You are an imbecile that believes in “global warming” and you write an article about it. Then, only other imbeciles like you who believe in “global warming” can comment on it.
Behold – “peer reviewed”.
Nutjob
August 26th, 2012
Nasa’s recent video of the sun is proof enough it was justed posted yesterday.
A new video from a sun-watching spacecraft shows just how much our star has woken up in the last three years.
The peak activity is in 2013, wonder what Gore is going to say when it drops back off in 2014?
Probably the same thing they said about their legislation and that if it wasn’t for the environmentalists the ozone would be gone……even though the holes still there.
Go The Ozone Hole website, practically every article they have contradicts a previous one or previous year, now they’re sayit could’ve been volcanos from the last 70,000 years that could be the reason for the thinning.
When it suits their needs its man, when they have no answers, it could be the oceans, or volcanos.
mkultra
August 26th, 2012
@Irony Curtain, I’d like to ‘pier-review’ Ed Begley Jr. Off a very short pier.
Absolute muddjuice
August 26th, 2012
This is not surprising and it’ll get much worse, because….
Matthew 10:22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
John 15:18-19 If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
bitterclinger
August 26th, 2012
One of my favorite quotes:
“I’m always amazed at the people who consider themselves well educated but haven’t read the Bible.”
Rabbi Daniel Lapin