Just Thinking
April 30, 2005 | 9 Comments
Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but . . .
. . . I submitted for publication in last week’s Carnival of the Vanities at Conservative Dialysis a post entitled Sainthood for Pope Not to Involve Cynical, Preposterous Fraud. Participants were asked to provide a brief description of their submissions. I summarized mine as “The Raving Atheist reports on the canonization process for the late Pope John Paul II.” In the Carnival, however, the blurb was changed to “The Raving Atheist explains why he doesn’t think that Pope John Paul II should be elevated to saint.”
Literally read, my post said nothing of the sort. I didn’t say anything about John Paul’s qualifications, much less attack them. To the contrary, I simply explained why I believed that an honest, fraud-free process involving the verification of the two required posthumous medical miracles would result in the former Pope’s canonization.
Admittedly, I didn’t intend the post to be read literally. But why would anyone suppose that my goal was to block John Paul’s sainthood? I don’t believe in saints. I’m not concerned with the imaginary honors that the Church bestows internally upon its departed leaders. What I’m after is the wholesale eradication of the Church itself. In part because the Church engages in massive, preposterous frauds meant to trick the ignorant and gullible. The Vatican hierarchy plainly engages in a great deal of premeditation — meeting after meeting, memo after memo — to select which “miracles” are credited towards sainthood. Would Conservative Dialysis seriously dispute the substance of my post?
Note that CD was careful to emphasize that in the post I was merely expressing what I “think,” i.e., spouting out an unsubstantiated personal opinion. Notably ,he didn’t use that qualification in characterizing other posts (e.g., “Carpe Bonum corrects the record regarding the election of Adolf Hitler” “Rick Moran compares the myths to the facts regarding Paul Revere’s famous ride at Rightwing Nut House”). But when an atheist expresses doubt that dead men work miracle cures
April 30th, 2005 @ 4:22 pm
You’re not making too much of this – I’d be pissed too. Basically Nick is mocking your view and does not want to give the impression that he supports your point, which is stupid, because anyone with half a brain knows that his job as host was only to compile those posts. He had no right to alter a title that you supplied and I hope you asked why the title was changed. Pretty much he’s screwing with the basic foundation of blogs and blog carnivals.
I wonder if he changed other titles.
April 30th, 2005 @ 5:54 pm
Concur.
May 1st, 2005 @ 10:24 am
Its to be expected that conservatives distort things. Discredit the author, put off the reader, hide the link deep within the site, all these tactics and more to use. The reason is their logic just doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny. Distorting the truth is a great way to keep the ignorant and gullible ignorant and gullible. They get away with it so long as people don’t say anything about it. Don’t expect them to do so any time soon.
May 1st, 2005 @ 10:27 am
P.S. The website is for nutballs. Don’t feel bad RA, these folks need one more brain hemisphere in their heads before they could even begin to grasp what you write about.
May 1st, 2005 @ 2:33 pm
Of course maybe god told him to alter it.
May 1st, 2005 @ 6:08 pm
Curiously, Mookie in #3 also describes the role of religion over the last 2000 years.
May 2nd, 2005 @ 8:00 am
That kind of stuff (changing another person’s creation) always sickens me. Where is the honest? The integrity? The Reality?
Thanks for posting your concern on your own blog RA. I don’t know if I’ll do anything about it myself right now. If you ask for us to swamp the CD site with indignant Ravings of each our own though, this is one battle I would enjoin.
May 2nd, 2005 @ 12:44 pm
June, indeed it is. And it seems for every person that sees beyond the bullshit, two more people become so brainwashed that they’re seemingly beyond all hope. One step forward, and several steps backwards. We should create some new nomenclature regarding godidiots and atheist freethinkers. Those that buy into the monkey scare tactics are known as “homo-debilitasaegroto” (which means “feebleminded” in the 2 minutes I spent lumping latin words together), and those that are freethinkers, “homo-notstupidus”. Okay, I’ll have to work on that second one.
May 2nd, 2005 @ 12:48 pm
“…it seems for every person that sees beyond the bullshit, two more people become so brainwashed…”
“Men go crazy in congregations
They only get better
one by one”
-Gordon Sumner, All This Time