Andrew Sullivan, Religion, and “self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love”
I rarely read Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, but have been reading lately as he has inserted himself into the issues this blog seeks to address. I must admit, the man seems to be a perplexing bundle of self-contradictions, sensitivity, and– most of all– deep anger.
For example, Sullivan posts the following this morning as his "Thought for The Day:"
"He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas," – Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action, University of Notre Dame Press.
And yet just above that high-minded sentiment Sullivan joyfully posts about a movie parody of Mormonism called "Orgazmo." A fews posts below he's sharing video clips of South Park episodes parodying Mormons. And those are just for starters.
Am I the only one who sees inconsistency here?
More to the point of this blog, it seems to me that we will hear a lot more, before the 2008 campaign is over, from the likes of Sullivan and others on the angry secular Left with a deep fear and loathing of religious American conservatives– Evangelical , Mormon, Jewish, or whatever else they may be. This blog, of course, will monitor that discussion carefully.
[tags] Mormon, Mormonism, Andrew Sullivan, South Park [/tags]
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