{"id":9798,"date":"2007-09-11T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2007-09-11T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:39:09","slug":"the-amazing-spectacle-of-moral-relativism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9798","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Spectacle of Moral Relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/11\/video-911-was-a-failure-of-human-understanding-says-mass-governor\/\">Hot Air<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/radioequalizer.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/talk-radio-9-11-attacks-governor-deval.html\">Radio Equalizer<\/a>, here&#8217;s Mass Gov Deval Patrick on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/view.bg?articleid=1030859\">message of 911<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among many other things, 9\/11 was a failure of human understanding [&#8230;] It was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States. <strong>But it was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, okay. But in fairness to those 3000 people who died in the WTC attacks, they were never given the choice between &#8220;send al Qaeda some flowers and a box of chocolate covered cherries&#8221; and &#8220;death by immolation or grudging 100 story swan dive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just nitpicking, I guess.  You know &#8212; jihadis are from Mars, ordinary Americans going to work on a sunny September morning with no thought in the world of Islamic fundamentalism or some freakishly tall bearded fanatic&#8217;s dreams of reestablishing the Caliphate and forcing Muslim rule across the globe, they&#8217;re from Venus.<\/p>\n<p>Notes Allah:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t judge, not even on 9\/11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure. But in their defense, it was an Islamist thing.  We wouldn&#8217;t understand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Hot Air and the Radio Equalizer, here&#8217;s Mass Gov Deval Patrick on the message of 911: Among many other things, 9\/11 was a failure of human understanding [&#8230;] It was a mean and nasty and bitter attack on the United States. But it was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other. Well, okay. But in fairness to those 3000 people<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9798\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}