Incoherent Fundie Bloviation Alert: Professors are modern-day Pharisees

[marmar]

from the American Family Association, where incoherent fundie babble has a home:



Professors and Pharisees
Date: 7/27/2010 9:51:59 AM


Recently, someone wrote to me complaining of a “recent and dangerous trend” of attacks on intellectuals coming from “those on the right.” The writer’s ostensible purpose was to shield intellectuals from “attacks.” His real purpose was to shield them from criticism.

Nothing could be more dangerous than shielding today’s intellectual, particularly the secular university professor, from criticism. It is precisely because they are so coddled and shielded (read: tenured) that they have become modern day Pharisees.

Jesus was not nice to the Pharisees. In fact, He had this to say to them: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” (Matthew 23: 27-28).

David Wheaton, author of University of Destruction, correctly points out that there were two principal reasons why Jesus reserved his harshest judgment for the Pharisees. The first was that they were proud. The second was that they were liars, or false teachers.

It has long been understood that academics are a proud bunch. But few realize just how dishonest academics have become. This hasn’t always been the case. But the increasing secularization of higher education has reduced the felt obligation of academics to adhere to the truth. In fact, many question the very existence of truth, perhaps as a way of avoiding condemnation for refusing to tell it.

For ages, professors have been guilty of advancing ideas before they were supported by evidence. Today, they are guilty of the far greater misdeed of continuing to advance ideas long after they have been refuted by evidence. Examples of this trend are numerous. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147496895

[SpiralHawk]

1. Hey, the RepubliFundies are stealing that phrase from me.

Harrrumph. I was the first one to use 'latter day pharisees' to describe them. Me me me me me.

Damn, they live in an upside down world of thievery, deceit, torture, and plagiarism.

Ptoooooey on the REAL latter day pharisees.

[dtexdem]

2. You can tell Pharisees because they project their sins on others.

Anti-intellectual, anti-science religious bigots are among the worse.

And one of the few things that protects us professors from their attacks is: tenure. Thank God for tenure!!!

[arbusto_baboso]

3. Remember: EVERYTHING that fundies/conservatives accuse libs/dems of being/doing....

they are or are doing themselves. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule. None. Try to find one. I fucking dare you.

[ck4829]

4. Anti-intellectualism is a way to appeal to the lowest common demoninator

Get people from many demographics without getting them to think.

Once again, proving that the Christian Right is more about politics and vote farming than actual Christianity.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Militant academic elitists are

Militant academic elitists are enlisting the aliens from Area 51 so they can put you in gay reeducation camps.


Glenn Beck conspiracy generator.


http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-glenn-beck-conspiracy.htm




The stupid hurts.

[rbixby]

6. This reminds me of something a fundie told me once

"I don't care about facts, I care about truth" Like they're two separate things. I'm not quite sure what that was supposed to mean, so I just shrugged and didn't continue the conversation.