tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post3234374652991155550..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: On Activist AudiencesGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-19618631404106440012013-01-23T06:24:33.966-06:002013-01-23T06:24:33.966-06:00Jim,
I don't have a source yet (and can't...Jim,<br /><br />I don't have a source yet (and can't actively look for one for some time), but here's an interesting exercise to try, if you aren't in the habit of listening to sixties/seventies-era rock/pop music: Watch for the many religious allusions. As allegedly secular as the left is, it is interesting that the music is as free with religious allusions as it is.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-10479199762183805892013-01-22T23:30:36.833-06:002013-01-22T23:30:36.833-06:00If Gus or anyone can dig up the link to Christiani...If Gus or anyone can dig up the link to Christianity about intentions, I'd love to know it.<br /><br />The emphasis on intentions is the escape hatch that all Leftists use to exonerate themselves from responsibility for their end-of-road ("But I didn't mean THIS!") and I'd love to know more about how that idea took root.<br /><br />It would be another data point towards grasping and clearly delineating the core (and heritage) of ideas common to religious conservatism/Christianity/Catholicism, and the Left.<br /><br />Jim Maynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-66142732732376229562013-01-18T06:20:01.634-06:002013-01-18T06:20:01.634-06:00It think it comes from the common notion (which I ...It think it comes from the common notion (which I believe is rooted in Christianity) that one's <i>intentions</i> are the more relevant gauge of character than one's <i>actions</i>. Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-55028841257989863892013-01-17T16:12:03.331-06:002013-01-17T16:12:03.331-06:00Gus,
From Thomas Sowell's column;
I thought...Gus,<br /><br />From Thomas Sowell's column;<br /><br /><i> I thought of a line from the old movie classic "Citizen Kane": "Charlie wasn't cruel. He just did cruel things."</i><br /><br />This reminds me of the statement of a friend of one of the royal dukes during the succession roundabout in George IV's Regency for his father George III.<br /><br />"Bertie's not a bad man. Just don't tell him you've got a tender spot on your foot. He's apt to tread upon it."<br /><br />This idea that man's character is somehow divorced from his habitual actions is a puzzle to me.<br /><br />c. andrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com