I also liked a comment left by Francis Beckwith:
"That is what made Brit's comments so creepy: the self-certainty that "my god is better than yours.""
Ironically, Mr. Farrell is suggesting that no god is better than any other, which means that Mr. Farrell apparently believes his opinion about gods is better than any other opinion about gods including the opinion that some gods may be better than others. And this puts Mr. Farrell in precisely the same position as Brit Hume: he thinks he's right and everyone else is wrong. But the difference between Mr. Farrell and Mr. Hume is that at least the latter understands what he believes and what that entails; Mr. Farrell has no clue, and this is why he mistakes his dogmatic stipulation for liberal tolerance. Passive aggressive self-certainty is still self-certainty, and far more "creepy" than a candid, up-front, confession of one's beliefs.
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What Mr Beckwith so well elucidates is something I really first noticed as a freshman in college, but couldn't at the time explain so well as he does in the quote.
Concerning Mr Olson's group #1, as I understand the genesis of the faux outrage, Hume's statement wasn't even made in his role as a news reporter, but rather as a participant on one of those roundtable discussion shows.
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