Richard Land's SBC Dogma Voters
Here is great comment from Marc
Ambinder's blog at The Atlantic.
I hope to come back to this soon and conflate it with the HOt Air God's article in the December Harper's Mag and Johnny Pierce's Inerrancy Spectrum as it relates to Huckabee's campaign in particular.
"Dogma voters" is the more fitting label. "Values voters" is an invented label for people who like to think of themselves as championing good human values. What many of them are pushing actually is dogma."Values" are "the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations." Cambridge Dictionary of American English. "Dogma" is "a fixed, esp. religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts." Id. The two, we can only hope, overlap to some extent, but they are hardly the same. Some of what religious fundamentalists hold up as values others find plainly wrongheaded and even immoral.Labels count. Those pushing the "values voters" label hope it will help them pass off their dogma as values. If they want to push their dogma, that's their right. But "dogma voters" they are, and that's what I'll call them.
Posted by Doug Indeap December 10, 2007 10:31 PM
Ambinder's blog at The Atlantic.
I hope to come back to this soon and conflate it with the HOt Air God's article in the December Harper's Mag and Johnny Pierce's Inerrancy Spectrum as it relates to Huckabee's campaign in particular.
"Dogma voters" is the more fitting label. "Values voters" is an invented label for people who like to think of themselves as championing good human values. What many of them are pushing actually is dogma."Values" are "the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations." Cambridge Dictionary of American English. "Dogma" is "a fixed, esp. religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts." Id. The two, we can only hope, overlap to some extent, but they are hardly the same. Some of what religious fundamentalists hold up as values others find plainly wrongheaded and even immoral.Labels count. Those pushing the "values voters" label hope it will help them pass off their dogma as values. If they want to push their dogma, that's their right. But "dogma voters" they are, and that's what I'll call them.
Posted by Doug Indeap December 10, 2007 10:31 PM
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