on freeperage as a corruption of the puritan ethos

[sisyphusshrugged]

I've been wondering (I really do think about this stuff) if the whole freeper "I know I'm right so even if I don't have the facts on my side, I get to use any means necessary because I Know I'm Right" is kind of an if cousins marry offshoot of Justification by Faith?

This, my children, is why we like pluralism a really lot.

Hey, they don't call it "Calvin ball" for nothing.

edit: Long Story has another ramification of this mindset.

edit again: the Preacher has yet another one.

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[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

You can almost see the Cartesian leaps "by the divine light of reason."