tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post3298481420315384176..comments2024-03-26T02:19:27.813-07:00Comments on ♆ The Macho Response ♆: Cultism, Confirmation Bias, The Left, And TMRThe Crack Emceehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-12189393361983601652008-11-20T00:08:00.000-08:002008-11-20T00:08:00.000-08:00The obvious pandering of the GOP to the religious ...The obvious pandering of the GOP to the religious right has been a problem for quite sometime now. Personally, I blame Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson for the demise of the republican party as much as I blame Bush. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, there are many Christians who use church leadership to do the thinking for them. I can remember receiving a pamphlet in church that had every pertinent candidates pro-life stance, and I, along with many others simply picked my candidates based on their opposition to abortion. There was no need to know where they stood on other issues. In conservative Christian circles, there was only one issue. <BR/><BR/>Now, having voted that way most of my life, I have to face the fact that it was naive and judgmental to try to legislate the moral decisions of others. My repentance came in the form of my vote for Mr. Obama. <BR/><BR/>The GOP base is made up of many people who have squandered their right to think for themselves as a way to feel more righteous; yet according to their belief systems, God is the one who gave them free will, and I don't think he did it just so they could surrender their intellect to James Dobson. My children, raised in the church, supported Mr. Obama, and are far more compassionate toward the people the Christian right taught them to disdain when they were young. <BR/><BR/>I believe millions of young people like my children are the future of the GOP, once it accepts and recognizes the worth of the millions of other Americans who might have different spiritual beliefs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-35526252294053194972008-11-19T23:38:00.000-08:002008-11-19T23:38:00.000-08:00Goodbye, Lee.Goodbye, Lee.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-16825188795624977722008-11-19T15:49:00.000-08:002008-11-19T15:49:00.000-08:00oh yeah... I must have missed the part where youre...oh yeah... I must have missed the part where youre fair and balanced. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-43019130865785312712008-11-19T07:04:00.000-08:002008-11-19T07:04:00.000-08:00Lee,I notice you missed this part:I read, and list...Lee,<BR/><BR/>I notice you missed this part:<BR/><BR/><I>I read, and listen to, everything - right and left, Rush and NPR, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times - always noting wherever cultism is found: that's TMR's confirmation bias. I've noted that, though a conservative, I don't fit in any group - including skeptics - and, I think, that's the strength of this blog. <BR/><BR/>Despite that, which I think is obvious, liberals regularly use confirmation bias to dismiss my work because - like The Peoples Temple was a leftist group - I see most (though not all) of the cultism on the Left and, as a former Leftist, I'm determined to expose it - I'll let others point out most on the right because there are many groups (from the left and right) doing that already.</I><BR/><BR/>The fact you ignore the mission of this blog - in favor of your own defense of cultishness in liberalism - says all I need to know about you. I told you before - you're walking a line with me - and I'm getting pretty sick of putting up with you. Keep it up and I won't bother talking to you. <BR/><BR/>I'm not Sean Hannity, so you'd be smart to stop treating that way.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-2683079160585025412008-11-19T06:53:00.000-08:002008-11-19T06:53:00.000-08:00Lee,It's just like you to take an expose such as t...Lee,<BR/><BR/>It's just like you to take an expose such as this and use it as an attack on me - it's confirmation bias at it's best.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203082776419426855.post-17613694287906311602008-11-19T06:39:00.000-08:002008-11-19T06:39:00.000-08:00listen to the arguments of those with whom we disa...listen to the arguments of those with whom we disagree, to ask for constructive criticism of our beliefs, and to remember Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church of Scotland in 1650: 'I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.<BR/><BR/>It would be nice if you actually READ what you post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com