Right-Wing Spin
I love it when there are news stories that confirm my beliefs. Every day there are stories I see which mock what I believe, even “hard news” stories written with a liberal slant. Bernard Goldberg gave an insider’s look at what any literate person could tell without the need of an exposé: there is bias in journalism. The liberal media has had a field day demeaning Christianity and anything that smacks of conservatism.
The label “conservative” (and, sadly, the name “Christian”) has come to lose its meaning through persistant and somewhat successful attacks on the enemies of truth, who have the perfect weapon in postmodernism to muddle language through subverting the meaning of those words. Joseph Sobran points out that liberals (did you know that the word “liberal” once had a fine meaning, almost diametrically opposed to what it has now come to mean?) group an odd assortment of groups together under the mocking moniker “right-wing.”
I often ask liberals to explain what they mean by right-wing, a term they apply to everything they dislike, even principles that have nothing in common, such as anarchism (opposition to all government) and fascism (government without limits), as well as conservatism (government within carefully defined limits), not to mention monarchism, oligarchy, plutocracy, nativism, militarism, laissez-faire capitalism, theocracy, libertarianism, feudalism, neoconservatism, and a hundred mutually incompatible other things. What common denominator can they possibly share? How can they all be “right-wing� No liberal has ever been able to tell me.
He gives an example of how the liberal mindset works by pointing out the caricatures of religious folk and their belief in a creator God in the movie “Inherit the Wind,” a portrayal of the Scopes trial. Evolutionists are shown in the movie as open-minded, intellectual, and benevolent, and the “right-wing” creationists are fearful of scientific inquiry and suppress the truth.
I am against the war in Iraq, and I think President Bush is just about the worst president our country has ever had, increasing the size of the federal government to proportions Bill Clinton could only dream of. But I’m an anti-feminist Prairie Muffin and I am a staunch believer in a literal six-day creation, so I, too, am accused of being part of the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
Since I’m relegated to that nether region of societal contempt, I shall continue peeping from the Amen corner with my right-wing jargon, with just enough contrarian thinking thrown in to keep the detractors from building a box into which they can fit me. Back to the beginning…the beginning of this post and the beginning of time. Newsflash: scientists have determined that a box discovered in the wreck of an ancient Greek ship is an astronomical calculator. ” The device was discovered in 1901, and a scientist who studied it from the 1950s to the 1970s had first proposed its use as a highly-complex astronomical calendar, “But because his analysis demanded a complete rethink of the capabilities of ancient Greek technology, it came under attack from academics who put alternative ideas forward.” In other words, his theory did not fit with previous evolutionary ideas that ancient civilizations were primitive and that we are evolving into more advanced societies and people.
Must be a bunch of right-wing scientists studying the gadget now.
This 1998 article from Answers in Genesis discusses the advanced technology of ancient man and even mentions the Greek gadget that’s in today’s news. Those evolutionists are so behind the times.
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” ~Psalm 19:1
. I have conveniently forgotten all my past faddish indiscretions, so there.
