Re: [asa] Orthodox Theologian Speaks on Modern Deserts

In a message dated 7/19/2006 3:16:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rich.blinne@gmail.com writes:
George put it better than I could. Perhaps this could be a piece of common
ground. Rich?
Rich,

These ideas I fight hard to defend are part of a paradigm that interlocks.
Because the whole paradigm works and I've argued it effectively in so many
venues and am now published with some of the world's leading paleoconservatives on
these subjects, I defend them vigorously, so it's not that I am being
intentionally difficult by refusing to compromise, I have to sustain the paradigm
because of its explanatory potential. I'm trying to share something important that
is part of that interlocking understanding.

I have an essay coming out in a new book titled Race and the American
Prospect that will explain the paradigm. I hope you get to read it.

Professor Kevin MacDonald has now published one of my pieces on his web site
and I am again published in the same volume with him which is a great honor
for me given what he has accomplished academically and how he has suffered for
writing the truth.

The link will explain the dilemma we face:

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Tooby&Pinker.htm

So what's the pay off for me? Why bother/argue?

My father wanted me to be a writer and he wanted me to be fearless the way he
was, but he died before I showed any promise. He was of the old school. He
had never backed down from a fight in his life and he always defended the
underdog. Because he never backed down from a fight he was murdered by a racist who
accosted him on the street and wanted him to beg for his life. Of course, he
told his murderer, "You want to shoot? Shoot."

There was something religious in his "never" backing down from a fight and so
I've spent my life studying racism and religion and when I got out onto the
internet discovered that I could argue with academics who knew nothing about
what I was talking about but gradually realized I made sense and word got around
about me and unknown and uncredentialed as I am, nevertheless I was given an
opportunity to be published and took it.

I am now a writer and in the middle of the biggest intellectual battle the
world has ever known and it would not have happened if my father had not been
murdered. He was the sacrifice that provided the motivation for me to do what
he, my father, had expected of me - and people say there is no God. Of course
there is a God.

I can't compromise. Science does not compromise and neither does true
religion.

I hope you get to read my article in Race and the American Prospect. Once I
know a few of you have read it, I will retire from the ASA list, my mission
accomplished. Then the ball will be in your court and you will be able to decide
whether or not you will shoulder my burden or not.

Sincerely,

rich faussette

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Received on Wed Jul 19 18:09:18 2006