Oh Goody, Another New Category!
Another handy-dandy label to hang on people you disagree with, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, apparently. "Christianist" is the new word Sullivan has coined. Patrick Hynes over at Ankle Biting Pundits has a post up describing his reaction to the title.
And in the next chapter, titled “Onward, Secular Soldiers,” I point out how every major battle in our culture wars has been launched by secular liberals, not by religious conservatives seeking to “impose their values on everyone else.” In a paragraph I’m rather proud of, I write:
“These liberals seem to think that before, say, 1960, American was some sort of sexually licentious, a moral, nonjudgmental, libertine dystopia in which all “values” were considered equal. But then radical Christians rose up, snuffed out the cigarettes, poured the whiskey down the drain, clamped on the chastity belts and spoiled the party. …”
It's a good post.
Blogosphere | Gaius Friday, 23 June , 2006
By Black Jack, Friday, 23 June , 2006 @ 1:43 pm
Sullivan likes labels, well, I’ve got a label for him: Onanist.
By Gaius, Friday, 23 June , 2006 @ 1:45 pm
Isn’t St. Onan the patron saint of small families?