Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
It's been a couple of weeks since news came out that 18% of Americans think Obama is Muslim. Even more shocking, to me, was that 43% didn't have a clue what his religion was. Just over a third identified Obama as Christian.
Ann Coulter jokingly suggested Obama was an atheist in her recent column. The last line of her piece made me laugh out loud:
There's only one true Christian liberal in the country and that's Mike Huckabee.
David Kopel defends Obama's Christianity over at the Volokh Conspiracy. Big thinker Roger Ebert, meanwhile, says that if George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh don't sign a statement vouching for President Obama's confession of faith, they will have committed -- and I'm serious here -- "a crime against America."
I had no idea Roger Ebert felt so strongly against Islam.
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Aug '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Mollie Hemingway: Ann Coulter:
Amen to that. Here's hoping that he's never a presidential candidate.
Jul '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Being a public liberal means never having to hold coherent opinions.
Aug '10
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Does anybody besides me find something presumptuous and faintly evil about the idea of vouching for a stranger's confession of faith, as if we could really know what was in a stranger's heart (when we may not even know what's in our own hearts, or in the hearts of those we know best)?
To publicly affirm that people believe what they might not believe seems a desecration of faith, individual freedom, or both. And to demand that others do it is even worse.
Jun '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Maybe Ebert does see Islam as "twisted and deranged." But apparently, he sees Christianity as equally guilty, so...close call...his leftist credentials are intact.
Roger Ebert, 8/13/10
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/08/traveler_to_the_undiscovered_c.html
"Those who use religion as a means toward thought control and rigid conformity are twisted and deranged. Anyone who would use religion as their reason to cause unhappiness to another is guilty of a great sin. These sins are committed first against their children. They have learned nothing from their faiths. The extremists of both Christianity and Islam, for example, follow lives of violent repudiation of the beliefs of their own religions."
May '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Midget Faded Rattlesnake
Does anybody besides me find something presumptuous and faintly evil about the idea of vouching for a stranger's confession of faith, as if we could really know what was in a stranger's heart (when we may not even know what's in our own hearts, or in the hearts of those we know best)?
To publicly affirm that people believe what they might not believe seems a desecration of faith, individual freedom, or both. And to demand that others do it is even worse. · Sep 3 at 2:43pm
For someone who views religion as just another identity factor like sexual orientation and race, it's not deeply personal. There's no reason to think Roger Ebert takes religious belief seriously for what it is, and therefore, neither does he acknowledge that anyone else might take their own religious beliefs seriously.
In that case, why would it not be just as acceptable for someone to affirm, for example, that Barack Obama is "black enough" as it is that he is "Christian enough"?
Jul '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Roger Ebert.
Life is so complicated these days: just when you think you've decided which public personality is the looniest moonbat, someone else pops up out of nowhere.
Do these "celebrities" really believe this stuff? Or do they just open their vapid pie-holes and spew hate in order to keep a tenuous grip on relevance?
Let's face it, if it wasn't for their availability to screech hate on cable shows no one watches, Ebert, Garafolo, Ed Schultz, etc. would long ago have had to take actual jobs. At Blockbuster.
Aug '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Mark Wilson
There's no reason to think Roger Ebert takes religious belief seriously for what it is, and therefore, neither does he acknowledge that anyone else might take their own religious beliefs seriously.
In that case, why would it not be just as acceptable for someone to affirm, for example, that Barack Obama is "black enough" as it is that he is "Christian enough"?
I get where you're coming from, but still... You don't even have to have religious beliefs to take them seriously.
I remember not wanting to get confirmed as a young teen because I wasn't sure yet whether I believed. It seemed to me the honorable thing to do was to avoid affirming belief when you weren't sure you had it.
After all, it might offend an atheist or agnostic to be identified as a Christian just 'cuz (though that doesn't exactly apply to Obama).
Taking faith so cavalierly also dishonors doubt.
Jul '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Roger who?
May '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
You have to give Roger Ebert credit: unsatisfied with his career as a terrible movie critic, he's making quite the foray into the business of terrible political commentary.
Aug '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Mollie Hemingway:
Big thinker Roger Ebert, meanwhile, says that if George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh don't sign a statement vouching for President Obama's confession of faith, they will have committed -- and I'm serious here -- "a crime against America."
Shut up an review movies, Roger.
(Unlike Jason, I think he was rather good at that.)
Aug '10
Re: Why does Roger Ebert hate Muslims?
Oh there's no question that Ebert was rather good at reviewing movies. But his descent in the last couple of years into partisan hackery (some of it quite ugly, all of it oozing self-righteousness) is threatening his legacy as the most influential film critic of all time.