Check out the comments on the story of Christian doctors murdered in Afghanistan. The easiest comments to read are those exploiting this for a chance score points against America\u2019s policies in the Middle East. The worst ones gladly put the blame on the victims for peddling their \u201cfairy tales\u201d (apparently Christians deserve what they get because they are Christians). Given that the Huffpost ostensibly deletes posts that cross the line, and seeing the nature of those posted, it makes one\u2019s blood run cold to imagine what the deleted posts said. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I\u2019m aware, of course, that such hatred, arrogance, and willingness to scoff at the suffering of those without stars on their bellies is not limited to the \u2018post-liberal Left.\u2019 But unlike most Western movements of hatred, it is not confined to isolated radicals holed up in log cabins at the foothills of the Rockies. Rather, it is boasted of and increasingly endorsed by (if not promoted by) leaders, scholars, celebrities, and others who have the eyes and ears of society at their beck and call:<\/p>\n
\u201c[T]he very ideal of religious tolerance\u2014born of the notion that every human being should be free to believe whatever he wants about God\u2014is one of the principal forces driving us toward the abyss.\u201d \u2013 Sam Harris, best selling author, doctoral student at Harvard, beloved of the modern atheism movement, who has yearned for a day when we can end tolerance of religions he hates.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Huffpost commenters continue to demonstrate the monstrous aberration that is the post-modern secular Left. Not to be confused with classic liberalism, a movement that could boast at least some aspects of Christian justice and social teaching, with a concern for humility of the intellect and love of one\u2019s neighbor. This thing bursts from the corpse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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