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“Warned” or “Wanted” – a typo? His Nietzchean rhetoric is precisely the (mis)reading that Nazism gave to the German philosopher: only the strong deserve to live; all others must be crushed. Nice guy.
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Oh great, another right wing hysteric? Can’t wait to here his position on the rape issue.
Hey remember those halcyon days prior to January 2009 when making Hitler analogies would get you effectively kicked out of polite society, let alone national politics?
I miss Godwin’s Law. Oh well, I’m sure it will go back into immediate effect the next time we have a Republican in the White House.
It does not mean that the State alone uses violence, but it does mean
that when push comes to shove, the State will win in a battle of wills.
If you refuse to pay your taxes, you will lose. You will go to jail, and
if you fight, you will lose. The government holds a monopoly on
violence.
First he implies that violence is not exclusive to the State. Then he says that the government holds a monopoly on violence. Is he contradicting himself or is he trying to say that the State, unlike individuals, may commit violence with impunity as part of maintaining order?
He’s not very coherent. And the Nietzsche stuff?? At least he has the WILL to be an obscurantist.
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UGH a “Hitler Prophesier” - another freaking dipstick who frivolously tosses the idea of “Hitler” around just to make his points more dramatic.
His “on the one hand this, on the other hand that,” and the “You may have a problem with either or both” makes me remember why I declined to be an academic.
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Yes. That is correct.
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"Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. "
This guy is a Professor? Of Economics? with a background in Religion?
…sounds like Palinesque word salad and a penchant for entwining unrelated ideas together into something even more confusing.
The fact he is actually the chair of his department is even more disconcerting. How many young minds has he messed up?
I was skeptical when I read someone comparing him to Palin, but after reading this, it is obvious, this fellow has brain salad.
I won’t even start on the sheer confusion of his religious aspect, the spiritual contradictions in his opinions are so graphic, it is a mystery how he reached the heights of academia that he has achieved.
The people who hired and promoted him must have political prejudice problems of their own.
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Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality.
So, since capitalism is inevitable, therefore it should be incorporated into or otherwise sanctified by religion? Is that what he’s saying???
This guy is in desperate need of a one-on-one with Pope Francis.
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How can anyone who professes Christianity and Ayn Rand at the same time be taken seriously?
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Did Brat ever learn to write above a fourth grade level? Has he heard of compound sentences? Or is it just the audience he’s aiming for?
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…isn’t that “borderline” philosophy?
Does this man have tenure?
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“The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take.”
Isn’t this exactly what Hitler did? He believed in right and wrong so much that every action he took was justified by his strength of belief? The Nazis also draped their rhetoric in religious justifications for their prosecution of right and wrong.
And Jesus didn’t have the “guts” to spread the word, he was the son of frigging GOD by his followers own admission. Then there’s that little bit about his kicking the moneylenders out of the temple, but why let the Bible get in the way of a good pogrom.
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Jesus. Psuedo-intellectual surfing the Dunning-Krueger wave to the inevitable associate dean’s chair where people like him are inevitably tucked away by colleges safe and sound, their potential to harm students with their incompetence minimized.
So of course, the Teahadists elected him to Congress.
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And to think I hated my Economics Professor in college. He was a fucking genius next to this guy.
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He also seems to skip right past those little Jesus notions like “render unto Caeser what is Caeser’s” (i.e. pay your taxes) or the passage about it being “easier to pass a camel though the eye of a needle than a rich man getting into heaven”.
And please, this guys degree isn’t in economics, it is (even his own CV states it) “Philosphy of Economics”.
His misreading of the rise of Nazi’s is even worse than his utterly nonsensical misinterpretation of the central message of Jesus as it pertains to economics though. Hitler used religious justification and the church to promote the superiority of the German people. Hell, most nazi soldiers had “god is with us” literally, on their belt buckles.
The man is simply talking nonsense. This is what passes for the work of a tenured professorship and chair of a department at colleges these days?
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My my:
“…precisely the (mis)reading that Nazism gave to the German philosopher.”
Indeed, if Nietzche were alive during Hitler’s rise, he would have been shipped off to one of the early concentration camps for
“re-education,” if not just shot outright. Don’t believe the German philosopher would have liked Der Fuehrer.
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Well he hasn’t been elected to Congress yet. Tramell and Democrats need to really step up to the plate this time.
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