Recently a person wrote me a note approving of my comments.

IN MY OPINION, he made one fatal error.

He said, “Political Correctness is a religion, or at least a set of rigid beliefs.”

I wrote him and then I wrote a piece in this blog about how, in trying to be sophisticated, he had justified the whole academic priesthood.

No, I said, Political Correctness is not “a rigid system of beliefs” as distinct from a religion. Political Correctness is a RELIGION.

The whole excuse for the professor-priesthood is that it is not a religion, but a rigid set of beliefs. The Constitution does not outlaw the teaching of “a rigid system of beliefs” or political bias. It absolutely forbids the establishment of a RELIGION.

So I invited this writer, who had been praising me to the skies, to explain to me the difference between a religion and what he called “a rigid system of beliefs.”

Remember, this is the distinction the enire professor-priesthood survives on.

He never wrote me again. He was offended that a letter of praise should be answered with such vicious criticism.

Don was one of my best commenters. He was also a great admirer of mine. I have an ego like anybody else and his praise made me feel good.

But then I jumped all over Don for something he said that, IN MY OPINION, was dead wrong.

He never wrote me again.

What really bothered me about this was that the former commenter and especially Don had long passed the Jehovah Bit. The Old Testament Jehovah, like other pagan gods, wants people to mindlessly tell them how wonderul they are.

There was nothing mindless about Don or the other commenter I raised hell about.

The guys I turned off had actually read what I said and understood it perfectly. They had gone ahead with what I said and made it the basis of further thinking. They had every right to expect a little diplomacy from me.

But this is Bob’s Blog.

There is no diplomacy here.

You use pseudonyms, so there is no reason for you to be embarrassed. I will jump all over you and you have every right to jump all over me.

If you are a mindless moron like “Sue” I will say so. I only replied to “Sue” because she was a perfect example of standard and packaged mindlessness.

I said so.

You I reply to because you are worth it and you can take it. If you piss me off, I will act pissed off.

If you are, IN MY OPINION, dead wrong on a point, I will tell you so, no holds barred. I expect you, as a thinking person, to look at what I say and deal with it.

This is Bob’s Blog.

There is no diplomacy here.