Norm Macdonald is probably best known as a comedian, but apparently he's also a deep-thinking philosopher, intent on explaining the ...
Norm Macdonald is probably best known as a comedian, but apparently he's also a deep-thinking philosopher, intent on explaining the decline and fall of Western civilization to the masses. Only Norm Macdonald does it using Twitter.
Thursday morning, he had a message about the Enlightenment that was at once shocking (because it came from Norm Macdonald) and thought-provoking.
Macdonald is obviously alluding to the switch in art from the imitation and depiction of the sacred to the human-focused philosophies of the post-modern world. In the parlance of a Macdonald-era Saturday Night Live sketch, those are some deep thoughts.
But, as most deep thoughts go, Norm's effort at eulogizing Christianity confused and befuddled social media. And leftists, ever-vigilant of the possibility that someone in the entertainment may be turning from "group think," were confused. But also incensed.
Particularly the anti-religious ones.
Of course, most of Norm's critics aren't entirely clear on what the Enlightenment was or who was actually responsible for the advancements they credit to the post-Dark Ages world. Knowledge — and, for that matter, the scientific method — were guarded and developed for centuries by members of religious orders. Modern science and medicine weren't born in France in the mid-1700s.
It got weirder, though.
And then it got woker.
By exposing their own ignorance of the pre-Enlightenment, though, these same critics were proving Macdonald's point that the move away from spiritual thought and deeper meaning has had a deleterious effect on humanity.
The "hate HATERS" are the real HATERS
ReplyDeleteLiberHATERS are the bullies ---- LOOK at antifa. Unemployable mutants, fat, scrawny, ugly, stupid, seething with hate for the kids that were athletic, scholarly, healthy. Social outcasts for being creeps., these losers dye their hair green, tattoos, piercings everywhere, wear mismatched trashy clothes, to try to attain an "identity" that they will never achieve. Their outward sideshow appearance is an attempt to distract from the ugly rotting soul within. Soulmates of school shooters and child molesters. They are the poster children of HATE.
..The LiberHATERS make a big thing of "standing up to bullies" and "accepting people no matter what" screaming "End the HATE" at their "rallies". They rail against attacking people over their appearance ------- as they wave their little Precious-Pony-Rainbow flags that are SUPPOSEDLY proving their acceptance of ALL opinions, but in FACT are statements that ONLY THEIR opinions are valid.
They scream "tolerance" but they are INtolerant.
They scream "HATERS" but look at their twisted faces and spittle dripping mouths.
They scream "democracy" but they refuse to accept the will of the MAJORITY.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/american-liberals-are-intolerant-bigots/
They have ZERO concern for the RIGHTS and FEELINGS of their Fellow Citizens, So I see ZERO reason to give a Flying FIG about theirs.
""And then it got woker.""
ReplyDeletewell it seems that you guys are just as stupid as every other enlightened one.
To Jowan M: Your fellow liberals go to SHAMANS waving feathers, "smudging", and chanting incantations ...
ReplyDeleteNorm is perhaps the greatest 'ironiscist' of our age. Why is irony always so ironic?
ReplyDeleteChristianity died a long long long time ago -
ReplyDelete"Margaret Ann Vosper (born 1958), known as Gretta Vosper, is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada WHO IS A SELF-PROFESSED ATHEIST."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretta_Vosper
Satan Rules: just see how the witch Queen Hillary still rules the MSM.... 2020?
ReplyDeleteGod's Knight Trump has his hands full....