{"id":6800,"date":"2009-05-11T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/tribalism\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:00:15","slug":"tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/tribalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Pretty funny argument going on in my comboxes.<\/p>\n<p>Y\u2019see I\u2019m always hearing sobs of pain from readers whose hearts are open bleeding sores of pity for torture defenders.  I\u2019m just so *mean*, doncha know, when I use blunt or flippant language to describe the ideas of people who dissent from the Church\u2019s plain teaching about war crimes as being in dissent about the Church\u2019s plain teaching on war crimes.  People come from out of the woodwork to *beg* for something called \u201ccharity\u201d toward those offering excuses, evasions, sophistries, lies and doubletalk in defense of war crimes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile down in my comboxes, people are offering thoughtful substantive critiques of non-tribe members such as this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Michelle] Obama looks like a man with a wig.<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought that The First Lady looks like she is sucking on a lemon.<\/p>\n<p>I always think she resembles a Klingon myself\u2026but that works just as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/chezami\/467033910993265530\/#964749\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">One reader <\/a> (who, believe me, holds no brief for the Obama Administration\u2019s policies) nails this \u201cjunior high BS\u201d for what it is.  The rest of the readers who have been weeping and tearing their hair about the colossal tragedy of \u201clack of charity\u201d when it comes to torture defenders are strangely stone silent when the lack of charity is directed at somebody outside the tribe.  Golly, I wonder why?  Surely, it couldn\u2019t be that their political biases make them hypersensitive to criticism of and blind to the excesses of tribal members, could it?<\/p>\n<p>Is any of this adolescent cattiness really worthy of a disciple of Christ?  Criticize Obama\u2019s policies all you please.  God knows they deserve it.  But moronic backchat about his wife\u2019s looks just makes the Church and the prolife movement look stupid, vicious, and petty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty funny argument going on in my comboxes. 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