I regret having written an insensitive post on a recent tragedy in Cincinnati. It was an egregious failure of judgment for which I take full responsibility.
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Thanks for the retraction. It has dispelled my worry that this blog would devolve into similar posts prompting a deletion from my feed reader.
I disagree. The unfortunate deletion of that post is merely another example of the special kid’s glove treatment irrationally accorded to religious matters and the believers thereof. Who knows, perhaps the poor child would be alive if she hadn’t been trained to embrace the ridiculous, and was more aware of the unforgiving nature of reality.
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” – H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
It’s well you should.
And you did.
So, moving forward…
Don,
Do you not see the tastelessness in using a person’s tragic and accidental death to score a philosophical point?
It’s not like the victim was a human sacrifice. It was during a folk re-enactment of a famous legendary saga before an audience composed, I imagine, largely of children as well as probably some of her friends and loved ones.
Can’t you grasp the human dimension in this?
You deleted it Heather? Why did you delete it? Did you want absolution for your sin?
Really now, I would like to have read it. I think this is a cop-out on your part. There should be a complete record of your increasing hostility.
Sure we all can, but I also understand what motivated the original post. Many of us are tired to the point of zero toleration, for God getting credit for every “answered” prayer, but no blame for the unanswered ones.
Personally, I’ll not change my mind until the first ever healing prayer from an amputee, is answered. It appears the cancer patients, et all, are taking up all the available bandwidth.
If she feels more comfortable with it gone, then we should leave it alone. I didn’t think it was that bad, Heather, as I saw what you trying to address (and it’s a good topic). But it is vital to be sensitive when it comes to death – to perceptions, regardless of intent.
This “Secular Right” blog features a guy who supports Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party. I wasn’t offended because I don’t take you seriously.
This “Secular Right” blog features a guy who supports Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party. I wasn’t offended because I don’t take you seriously.
Darn! You don’t take us “seriously.” Let me go cry in the corner….
@pgwarner
That was my first response too. I haven’t noticed any increasing hostility from Ms. Mac Donald but I did at first think she should have left it up.
The thing is, in cases like this there’s no always right answer. Taking it down could be considered “a coverup” or it could be considered a healing move. Leaving it up could be considered “continuing to be disrespectful” or it could be considered being honest about what she has done. I think Mac D. made a fine decision under the circumstances.
Ibidem (Mencken’s quote)
It’ll be nice if “the right” could cut the political correctness bullshit, otherwise all hope is lost!
I missed, thankfully, but I assume it’s related to the accident with the aerial. Apology and removal are appropriate. Using a recent death as a cheap tub-thumping bludgeon is not going to win any converts. It was that sort of thing that kept me from atheism for years.
As Sophocles pointed out in Antigone, a certain space should be given the dead. That’s not being politically correct. It’s being polite.
What a strange statement! So, Truth has to be polite for a good while, before you invite it in?
Who cares if you ‘convert’? Who cares if you’re ‘kept from atheism’? This is a grand example of the pathology of religion-think. Believe what you will, why would that influence my actions?
The post made “secular” look really insensitive. Glad its gone. Self-editing is a good thing.