And The Winner, For Worst Run-On Sentence ...

See, you think we're addicted to mocking The American Thinker ... well, maybe just one more hit on the ol' Thinkster crack pipe:

The Middle Ages, by which people mean the Christian Middle Ages, the European Middle Ages, had their faults, like any other epoch, but to call Islamofascism medieval is to equate medieval Christendom and the medieval Islamic world, a religion that gained adherents through persuasion and a religion spread almost entirely by the sword, a civilization that abolished slavery and a civilization that propagates it, a society that began poor and ended rich and a society that began rich and ended poor, a culture that was backward in the beginning and enlightened in the end and a culture that was enlightened in the beginning and backward in the end, a polity that was weak and divided and became strong and, well, divided, and a polity that was strong and relatively united and became weak and divided.

Whew ... out of breath!  But just for fun, here's another tidbit:

When pundits attempt to denigrate Islamofascism by calling it medieval, they tell us as much about their attitude toward Christianity as about Islam. They wish to blacken the names of Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and Zarqawi, which are black enough already; they end up blackening the names of Saint Augustine, Saint Francis, and Saint Thomas, who, whatever their deficiencies, never hijacked airplanes and flew them into skyscrapers or beheaded hostages.

Francis of Assisi never flew a plane into a building?  Get. The Fuck. Out.  Well, the writer does have a Ph.D - better take his word for it.

The American Thinker has got to be a parody site ... right?  Please?

tags: american thinker impeach bush thomas lifson al qaeda hezbollah

Comments

[Blue Gal]

Satire? Oh, I don't know, I thought that about Christopher Lloyd the first time I watched him.

[actor212]

I wouldn't put money on it, however in checking the registration on the site, it has been private registered thru Registerfly.com.

A legitimate media site which was not trying to protect it's anonymity wouldn't bother with a third party registration. It is circumstantial evidence to its, um, lack of credibility.

[OTTami]

I have never seen a better rip-off of Dickens in my life. Not once.

[konagod]

OK, my first good laugh of the day! Thanks!

[Kathy]

Geez. This guy must get paid by the word. That's just about the worst case of verbal diarrhea I've ever seen.

Blogenfreude, you better lay off this stuff for a while. We don't want to have to send you to rehab.

[John]

Wow, and he has a PHd, I hope to god it wasn't in history (or english).

as to the 'a religion that gained adherents through persuasion' I do have to admire how well the persuaded the Cathars (and so many others)

[blogenfreude]

I will also note for the record that Francis of Assisi never hijacked airplanes and flew them into beheaded hostages either. Just to clear that up.

[pissed off patricia]

Can you get a phd in bullshiting?

[gary]

I have heard of diarreah of the mouth...But of the keyboard?

[The CultureGhost]

Blessed be The Middle Ages, for if not really tacky statues of St. Francis, what else would decent, hard-working, tax-paying, patriotic Americans put in their backyards?

Elric The Malingerer?

[HelenWheels]

How can someone that writes thusly claim a Phd? Maybe that's just part of the fake persona. If Dickens were alive, he'd sue for defamation of style.

[Cernig]

I think you may have found the winner for my suggestion of a Bulwer-Lytton blogging prize.

Regards, Cernig

[divajood]

PhD: piled higher and deeper.

[actor212]

I will also note for the record that Francis of Assisi never hijacked airplanes and flew them into beheaded hostages either. Just to clear that up.

Posted by: blogenfreude

Thomas, however, did fling a few ducks at lepers...but who am I to judge a man's sexuality?

[Bazz]

The boy's a bit confused if he's putting Saint Augustine in the medieval period...

[The Heretik]

Come now. Those aren't run on sentences WHICH IF YOU REALLY must see "them" and this is the import, which is to say that what I said before which was, but was not "so" important, is that we must consider the master and not the servant of identity politics, which would serve us well if our critics were just "honest," and this goes with out saying but must be said on idententicalical thoughts,which must be iterated and then re: the iteration, which would be a reiteration of what was first said, sometimes in the manner of the one without manners, who is right, and writes on from the right in a most protean and jizzed, dumb way, which is to say "Goldstein."

[isabelita]

Well, now, when we was down to Georgetown, SC, in April for a family reunion, we came upon a plaque behind their garden club joint honoring St. Fiacre, purportedly the "Patron Saint of Gardeners,"
who was famous for "knocking down bushes and trees." Like, um, way back in the day or something. Shit, he sounds more like the patron saint of logging and plundering.
Another proto-Republican looter!!!

[fallenmonk]

This person obviously went to a school that graded dissertations by the pound. The PhD is also obviously not in history or he is really stretching the definition of midieval to include St. Augustine.

[Smafdy]

"...They wish to blacken the names of Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and Zarqawi, which are black enough already; they end up blackening the names of Saint Augustine, Saint Francis, and Saint Thomas, who, whatever their deficiencies, never hijacked airplanes and flew them into skyscrapers or beheaded hostages..."

Who cares what the alleged saints did? What about the Popes? They'd condone sticking a pole up someone's rectum and lighting them on fire (and those were fellow Christians).

[actor212]

They'd condone sticking a pole up someone's rectum and lighting them on fire (and those were fellow Christians).

Posted by: Smafdy

Hey, don't threaten ME with a good time...