Is Marty Peretz Insane?

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 12:00 PM on July 11, 2009.

The latest missive from Peretz argues "Christian Believers Would Be Excluded From Government If The Left Liberals Had Their Way." Really?

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Years ago, I had a subscription to The New Republic.

After various articles in a series of issues caused me to fling the magazine across the room in a disgusted fit of pique, I canceled it.

For a long time, they kept sending it to me, even though I wasn't paying for it. They would send me renewal notices, which I would promptly throw in the trash. They called me with offers enticing me to resubscribe, which I continually declined.

And as long as Marty Peretz is writing fetid dogshite like "Christian Believers Would Be Excluded From Government If The Left Liberals Had Their Way," I can't say it's likely that I will ever feel remotely inclined to change my mind.

Btw, Marty—are those the same "Left Liberals" who worked like demons to elect our current Christian president, who's just as Christiany (even if it's a different flavor) as the last guy, and who relentlessly panders to Christians by hanging out with Rick Warren, making announcements about the Christian congregation his family has joined, couching reproductive rights rhetoric in churchspeak ("between a woman and her pastor"), and refusing to take a stand on DADT, marriage equality, or full federal benefits for same-sex partners? And/or worked like demons to elect any one of his Democratic challengers, every last one of whom is Christian?

Idiot.

Tagged as: christians, liberals, obama, new republic, marty peretz

Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.

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Is Marty Peretz Insane? [Report this comment] Posted by: Quannah on Jul 11, 2009 12:16 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I'm assuming this is a rhetorical question. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Left Liberals... [Report this comment] Posted by: Ladydog on Jul 11, 2009 1:53 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] and Muslims and Arabs are all the same to the paranoid hate-fest that is Marty Peretz's brain. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Setting aside Marty's shitheadedness... [Report this comment] Posted by: DaBear on Jul 11, 2009 5:05 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Frankly, any "born-again" Xtian who cannot allow for the equality of another's Religion or Un-Religion should NEVER serve in a democracy. Period. If your religion demands that you believe you and you alone have the exclusive answer to all things in life, then you are not a good-faith participant in a democracy anyway. Further, given that most politicans these days claim to be Xtians, and the most vociferous amongst those have been some of the most criminal (or criminally insane) of the 'Merkaaner owning-class, I'm sorry, it's an instant FAIL for me. If you claim to be one of them, no way in hell you gittin' my vote because you're a fucking psychopath and we don't need anymore Xtians like that, thank you very much. The stoopid has just GOT to stop before the species is extinct. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] 'Insane' is a legal, not psychiatric, term that means not only [Report this comment] Posted by: TimV on Jul 12, 2009 7:21 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] psychotic, but not responsible for one's actions due to psychosis. Thus there are many psychotic people who are not 'insane'. Peretz' belief that christians would be excluded from a liberal/leftist government is clearly crazy, but not necessarily insane. In fact, he is not necessarily afflicted W/a literal major mental illness (Schizphrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression,...) By the way, you might want to check out "The Roots Of Evil: The origins of genocide and other mass-killings", by Ervin Staub. In his sub-chapter entitled "Genocide and Insanity" under his chapter on the Nazi Holocaust, he claims that Nazi war criminals and SS soldiers were subjected to psychological testing and found to be free from major mental illness! (Though he argues that the Nazi megamurder was caused by a cultural insanity.) [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] CORRECTION: Nazi megamurder caused by a cultural psychosis [Report this comment] Posted by: TimV on Jul 12, 2009 7:24 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] not insanity, as the Nazi killers were responsible for their crimes. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Christians Get Off On Feeling Persecuted, So They're Loving It Now [Report this comment] Posted by: mikeblack on Jul 12, 2009 7:29 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I don't know why hyperbole coming from the evangelicals today is surprising to anyone. Going heavy on the persecution angle is something desperate people do. And when even conservative Newsweek magazine publishes a cover story mentioning your declining influence in America, you're going to get desperate. Christianity will always have a stranglehold on America, but after 8 years of it being shoved down America's proverbial throat in its most extreme form with the Bush years, clearly the majority of Americans rejected it as a way to run society. They'll regroup after a few years and comeback probably. But for now the age of having a strong friend in Bush in the White House and MegaChurches are done. So they're angry and ready to embrace their persecution fetishes at their fullest in the meantime. And secretly loving it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE:Following the Jews example. It works so well. Posted by: sasquuatch55

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