http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&hp

Does one ever tire of the jottings of America’s premier spokesman for bourgeois heterosexual conformity, in all of its manifestations, including a penchant for the reification of the benighted tribalism known as the Abrahamic Tradition? Mr. Brooks is the apologist that propagandists could only hope for, as he frames his latest essay with the title of ‘Creed or Chaos’, an absolutely false dichotomy but a politically useful trope, in the lexicon of the professional religious apologist. Do you ever wonder why atheists become militant, obnoxious, insulting in their addressing of the dull-witted apologetics of rationalizers like Mr. Brooks? Mr. Brooks considers himself as an enlightened person, perhaps even superior to lesser beings, who do not share his religious enthusiasms: as a guide to actions in all areas of life. Now the bloody history of the Abrahamic Tradition is there for all to examine, if they will. Yet Mr. Brooks manages, like most of his fellow travelers, to focus on the very carefully chosen bits that emphasize ‘tolerance’ rather than the actuality of the authoritarian male abusing his power in the name of whatever ‘God’ is expressive of a necessary and demonstrable opportunism. In Mr. Brooks’  worldview the choices are simplistic in the extreme, almost like elementary arithmetic. Let me state my prejudice forthrightly, the American male heterosexual is utterly incapable of comprehending the notion of nuance in any of its permutations

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