Children of God's Revolution: Please, some original thought?

Friday, October 30, 2009

Please, some original thought?

For the longest time I thought Bill Maher was the intellectual antithesis of Sean Hannity. Both mindlessly droning on, regurgitating outdated and ridiculous rhetoric. "14 U.N. resolutions, 14 U.N resolutions, 14 U.N. resolutions..." vs. "George Bush is dumb, George Bush is dumb, George Bush is dumb..."

But behold! I have discovered one opinion writer for the New York Times who's feeble and pathetic mind surpasses all challengers. This mutant's name is Maureen Dowd and she has the superpower of making any reasonable human being wish they were illiterate. You read that correctly. The dribble she publishes is so excruciatingly vacuous that it is difficult to read, often because the pain causes my eyes to well with tears.

If she isn't spewing (self-hating) anti-Catholic remarks so vile she'd get canned if applied to an other group (say Muslims, Jews, etc), she's writing articles titled Oval Man Cave where she freely pouts about how a fellow journalist played golf with the President and she didn't make the cut. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Simply put: she's an irrelevant whiner.

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. Damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
-Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"The revolution of love, a love that does not base itself definitively in human resources, but in the gift of God, that is obtained only and unreservedly in his merciful goodness. Herein lies the novelty of the Gospel, which changes the world without making noise. Herein lies the heroism of the “little ones,” who believe in the love of God and spread it even at the cost of life... In the last century we experienced revolutions with a common programme - expecting nothing more from God, they assumed total responsibility for the cause of the world in order to change it. And this, as we saw, meant that a human and partial point of view was always taken as an absolute guiding principle. Absolutizing what is not absolute but relative is called totalitarianism. It does not liberate man, but takes away his dignity and enslaves him. It is not ideologies that save the world, but only a return to the living God, our Creator, the guarantor of our freedom, the guarantor of what is really good and true. True revolution consists in simply turning to God who is the measure of what is right and who at the same time is everlasting love. And what could ever save us apart from love?"
-Pope Benedict XVI