Thursday, 28 February 2013

Life on the lunatic fringe

I was interviewed last week; for the first and probably last time.

I had no more than 5 minutes to prep but I think I'm happy about what I said (and what was included).
But apparently my views qualify me as lunatic fringe. Christendom is apparently now the intellectual equivalent of drunk anarchism and the political philosophy of crumpetism. Islamism is wrong and abhorrent but even it has more philosophical merit than the dominant secularist socialism.

I think that my views, held by most of the western world for most of modern history, scarcely qualify as lunatic fringe. I don't know what the motives were for including my position in this article, but it doesn't take much brain power to figure out that the authors want to ridicule the views represented - both by name-calling and association.

Do you think I deserved my place in this list?

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