More Donald Kaul Progressive Blathering

Donald Kaul, my favorite token Progressive columnist on the politically balanced Op-Ed page in The Mountain Mail (Salida, Colorado's newspaper), is once again berating those who don’t hold to his belief system.

Kaul, in his recent column, called the Supreme Court nomination of Harvard-educated Kagan by Harvard-educated President Obama “institutional nepotism.” Despite his criticism of Kagan and call for more “intellectual diversity,” he ended his column with: “I’d probably vote for Kagan, were I a senator. She’s the best we can get, given the system we’ve got."

“Best” at what?—upholding the letter and spirit of the Constitution? Or, that Kagan, though not Kaul’s perfect idealogue, at least meets the minimum Progressive qualifications for a Supreme Court Justice—another lap dog for Constitutional watch dog group of nine?

Speaking of lap dogs, there are enough in Congress to confirm her nomination.

Having said that, I’ll put politics and Kagan aside and comment on a Kaul aside.

It was Kaul’s brief self-righteous salvo against those of differing beliefs: “I don’t even care much about their [Supreme Court nominees’] religion,” he wrote, “so long as they don’t take it too seriously.

“It’s the ‘deeply religious’ one must avoid at all costs. Whatever the religion—Muslim [sic; Muslims are adherents of Islam], Catholic, Protestant or Jewish—its deeply religious practitioners would as soon burn you at the stake as look at you.”

True to form, the deeply atheistic Kaul once again reveals his hypocrisy by metaphorically burning deeply religious people at the stake.

Being a Christian, I’ll let others respond for themselves. (Advice to Muslims: be careful what you quote from the Quran. Advice to Salem: Tell Kaul to relax; the witch hunt ended three centuries ago. Advice to Jews: Enjoy the cool respite while we Christians take the heat.)

Kaul wants us to lighten up and not take religion “too seriously.” Does he mean not to believe in God too much? Not to love God and others too much? Not to pray to God too much? Not to obey God too much? Not to depend on God too much?

Advice to Kaul: lighten up—don’t take atheism too seriously.

Aha! I think I get what Kaul means by “intellectual diversity”: Worship yourself and kiss the hand of the nanny state that feeds you!—that would be a better system than “given the system we’ve got.”

Kaul’s column is not the first in which he digresses to vent his non sequitur anti-Christian diatribes. And it probably won’t be his last. The wannabe big-time columnist banks on fiery controversy in hope it will propel him to fame and fortune. Or, at least, keep his column from being dropped.

Alas, he can always count on enticing people like me to throw a little fuel on his fire. But that’s a small price to pay for the chance to tip the balance to the right of his blather.

I’ve thought about maybe inviting Kaul to be a guest at one of our church group’s cook-outs. You know: just to chew the fat. But, even though we’re in Salida and not Salem, he would probably take it the wrong way.

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