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JP on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:22:49 AM
the politics of culture | the culture of politics Nobel Lunacy
by Bruce Thornton [author] 10/16/07
Al
Gore embodies a type that usually turns up in high school or university
faculties, what we can call the evangelical liberal. These folks
believe they have received the revealed truth about everything, and so
are entitled to hector and harass the rest of us with blustering
sermons whose real purpose is to demonstrate their righteousness and
superiority. What is worse, their revealed truth does not come from God
or a traditional faith, but supposedly from a rational examination of
principle and empirical evidence. Thus they combine the worst traits of
religious fanaticism and crackpot scientism. [more]