Erik's Rant
 

May 18, 2003

I thought that my blog

I thought that my blog had been hijacked by Protties of the most egregious stripe. I went to log on to see what folks have written and I got some goofball nonsense about Bible study and endtimes and cults (guess which Church, founded by Christ Himself and guaranteed to stand against the gates of Hell until the end of time is on that list?) and other such gobbledegook. It turns out that I had misspelled "blogspot" and this outfit has the domain "blogpsot.com" Oh how clever they are!

Now I may come accross as excessively anti-Protestant, and I probably am, although I have good friends and even relatives who are Protties. Yeah, I know, the classic Liberal pose, I am no bigot, why some of my best friends are deceived by Satan into following this sola scriptura nonsense. Of course you all know that I am no liberal and tend to err on the side of Torquemada much more than the side of the Universalists. And if pressed I will admit to being a bit of a bigot. Most folks are, just some of us have come to terms with it. We even embrace our inner Archie. I could never understand racial bigotry, though, but cultural bigotry strikes me as a good, if it is applied rationally. There is something superior about Latin culture. I am not ashamed to be half Teutonic, but I am glad that culturally my formation was Latin.

I am likewise glad that my Mormon ancestors left Smithism three generations ago. I am not ashamed that I have Smithite ancestry, but I am glad that it didn't take. Of that whole side of the family there was one branch (well, one couple) that remained Smithites, and they never had children. I met them for the first time at my Grandmother's funeral. They were kindly folks, and I am sure they are honest and upright. I wish them no ill, I am just glad that I do not share their view of the Cosmos. I am not ashamed to say that their view of the Cosmos is inferior to mine. It is not great achievement on my part, I borrowed it all from much better minds.

Anyway, this all came about when I wrote a good Torquemadian torrent against the Protties when I thought they had hijacked by blog. When it turned out that they are only using the mildest form of deception, one that would only fool an idiot or a drug-addled post-surgery patient, well, I am a little milder in my invective.

I actually cannot claim to be that drug-addled, as it is going on 14 hours since the last dose wore off. I hope to be completely off these things, as I am really getting sick of them! So, if all goes well, you will see a real post soon. Thank you all for your patience!

Posted by erik at May 18, 2003 10:53 AM | TrackBack
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