Credit for the title of this post goes to Leedsman, a commenter at alicublog. Spread it around, so to speak.
Roy Edroso, the proprietor of alicublog, found another entertaining quotation from a right-wing Christian frother upset by the re-election of the Kenyan Usurper:
The American culture war has been markedly intensified, as those who booed God, celebrated an unfettered abortion license, canonized Sandra Fluke, and sacramentalized sodomy at the Democratic National Convention will have been emboldened to advance the cause of lifestyle libertinism through coercive state power, thus deepening the danger of what a noted Bavarian theologian calls the “dictatorship of relativism.”The "noted Bavarian theologian" is of course, Pope Rat, who knows about relativism, and about dictatorship, or "the Kingdom of God" as a noted Jewish theologian called it.
Some commenters wondered what a "dictatorship of relativism" would be like. Something like this, maybe.
"You must believe in the power of the State! Unless you have some other idea. Do you? Really our answer isn't better than any other answer. Let's discuss this over a beer. Oh, you don't drink? That's okay."But it's simple enough, even obvious. A "dictatorship of relativism" is a situation in which sincere believers aren't allowed to torture and execute sodomites or adulteresses or heretics or Jews, or to stone their daughters for marrying out of the faith, or to demolish competing houses of worship (preferably while the worshipers are inside), or to make everybody's children pray in public schools, or deny access to contraception to everybody, or to segregate the races as God intended while still getting tax exemptions for their sectarian academies, or at least to make everybody else segregate the races as God intended. These horrible restrictions (and so many more) infringe their freedom of religion, which to them means the freedom to impose their religion on everyone else.
"Relativism" is one of those buzzword epithets that don't mean much (like "postmodernism"), but that is what people like Pope Rat and his minions are complaining about: they are denied the freedom to deny freedom to everyone else.
