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Lastest phony outrage misidentifies evangelical stupidity

The level of outrage of many on the left has reached Defcon 5 over Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s remarks last night.  But the outrage seems misplaced.  Mourdock said:

I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.

This is just standard evangelical Christian gobbledygook which is used to rationalize all sorts of bad stuff.  “It’s God’s Will,” is a common response to natural disasters or Super Bowl losses or death and, now apparently, rape.  This is a particularly evangelical way of dealing with the existence of evil in our world and not about one Senate candidate’s War on Women.

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13 Responses to Lastest phony outrage misidentifies evangelical stupidity

  1. anonymous 10/24/2012 at 1:47 pm

    This is getting to be a “girl who cried wolf” thing

  2. Matt Forney 10/24/2012 at 1:53 pm

    These people need to be slapped. Hard.

  3. anonymous 10/24/2012 at 2:12 pm

    rape some sense into them…

  4. peterike 10/24/2012 at 2:20 pm

    I love how the gender-crazed-Left (which is to say all of them) are parsing this as, “This guy said that God intended women to get raped and pregnant!” As if God were passing out “Go Directly to Rape” cards or whatever. It’s a lunacy on top of a lunacy on top of a lunacy. It’s a level of ignorance and misunderstanding that is simply astonishing and cannot, in any way, be contended with on any rational basis. They are bat-shit crazy.

    The fact that Mourdock (love that name) didn’t say anything remotely like what he is accused of means nothing anymore. Still, I’m always amazed that these dumb Evangelicals never seem to learn that if they say ANYTHING about reproduction in ANY WAY that is even slightly outside the Feminist pale, they will get strung up for it. They just can’t learn to keep their mouths shut on the subject, and the press knows it and gleefully walks them into the same trap over and over.

    Listen, any hapless Evangelicals (or hyper Catholics) running for office that may come in reach of these words. If anyone in the press asks you ANYTHING about pregnancy, birth-control, abortion or anything else related to gender or reproduction, just say “I don’t think it’s the government’s role to address those issues” and then get the hell out of there.

  5. atywy 10/24/2012 at 3:05 pm

    It’s interesting – we are told we live in a culture that normalizes/encourages rape, yet whenever someone says something about rape the entire media shits bricks and enters super-condemnation mode. Perhaps the fact that nearly the entire media behaves this way could be interpreted as evidence against the claim that our culture normalizes and encourages rape…

  6. Reym 10/24/2012 at 6:05 pm

    @atywy: You’re ignoring the fact that heterosexual men are all rapists by definition. Our culture normalizes and encourages rape by promoting heterosexuality.

    (This is kind of tongue in cheek, but that’s legitimately where this sort of thing comes from.)

  7. thordaddy 10/24/2012 at 6:43 pm

    He should have said, “If my mother was raped, I STILL DON’T BELIEVE she would have had the “fundamental right” to kill me in utero.

    What fool would disagree with that other than a self-annihilator.

  8. Tom 10/24/2012 at 7:16 pm

    Defcon 5 is situation normal, everybody’s at peace, no threats.

    Defcon 1 is full nuclear exchange.

    Just FYI.

  9. peterike 10/24/2012 at 7:40 pm

    I think I’m going to start up a series of children’s fantasy books about kids who are, like, wizards or something, and they all go to some kind of a school or something, and there’s a big terrible villain that wants to force them all to have babies and his name is Lord Mourdock.

  10. Mark 10/24/2012 at 8:44 pm

    I live in Indiana and this is a big story here today. The abortion position of both major parties here doesn’t really either hurt or help either party because I think most Hoosiers are somewhere in the middle and see both parties as too extremist on this issue. By the way I’m curious, how do commenters know they’ve been banned here? Are comments they post not approved or are they blocked from even trying to post in some way? I may have missed it but I’ve not seen you say much about your commenting policy,

  11. Tom White 10/25/2012 at 1:22 am

    The controversy isn’t over rape, the controversy is over Christianity. Mainstream media and the professional butthurt industry love to attack Christianity because its a way to be edgy and outspoken by fighting a fight that was won over two hundred years ago.

  12. Ads 10/25/2012 at 12:56 pm

    Oh for fuck’s sake. Meanwhile the liberal darlings numero uno, the buddhists, thinks that rape victims actively *deserve* being raped due to actions in a prior life.

    But as usual they seem to think that brown people of any nuance are just too damn dumb to have any moral agency what so ever.

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