Relying On the Righteous Right, For Sheer Stupidity and Dishonesty

FOR OUR DAILY IDIOTIC POST (DIP) from the alternative universe of Facebook, we turn to combination which never fails to provide the very best in ignorance, idiocy, and downright pernicious dishonesty, that most insipid, banal, poorly educated, and unintelligent variety of homo sapiens sapiens (this is no typo, the term "sapiens' is properly stated twice in identifying humans in the biological organizational system), the conservative American Christian lunatic (CACL), always certain to evince a brief outburst of disbelieving laughter among the well educated intelligent. Said the post: "I received an email from a friend who was wondering why conservatives are always described as the "right", and liberals as the "left'. Then I happened to notice in the Bible, Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 2, which says: the heart of the wise man leans to the right, and the heart of the fool leans to the left". yep, that's it. You can imagine how terribly clever the person who invented this post thought himself, and how terribly clever those who accepted it as fact and shared it on Facebook thought themselves, as simple minded dishonest (there are no other kind extant) conservative Christians are prone to think themselves. Stipulated that we generously assume literacy by the person posting. But the phrase "happened to notice" is alarming. One simply does not "happen to notice" things in the Bible. One can imagine things, invent things, of research things in the bible, but one does not happen to notice things which happen to correspond conveniently to one's personal biases and ignorance. One must look. If one is fortunate, and sufficiently able to twist the meaning of words, as all true conservative Christians must of necessity be, one can usually find a scriptural passage which can be used to justify one's personal idiocy or bias. The bible is not only among the most violent, obscene, and vulgar book in history, it is among the longest, a veritable little library of quaint ancient manuscripts, which include, as Mark Twain aptly said, some noble poetry, clever fables, a great quantity of obscenity, and no fewer than one thousand outright lies. Whatever one wishes to justify, one can reliably find justification for it in the bible, since the bible is the accumulation of dozens of authors, and hundreds of editors and translators. But, no, one does not "happen to find" anything in the bible. It turns out that the clever but dishonest posting person found nothing in the bible, so apparently decided to invent something, a common occurrence among the right wing righteous. What Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 2 actually says is: "It is natural for a wise man to do the right thing and for a fool to do the wrong thing." If the posting person were to acquire the necessary skills to read the bible, and to locate scriptural passages, who can tell how disappointing she might be to discover that the Bible indeed does not slander liberals? So why not distort scripture in such as way as to slander liberals, if you happen to be a poorly educated dishonest right wing evangelical? Right wing evangelicals have perfected the technique, having been doing it, with the enraptured approval of their adoring tongue speaking Pentecostal minions, every season under heaven, since at least four thousand and four B.C.E., which is approximately when, according to the poorly educated and informed righteous, the world was brought precipitously into existence by a very large and powerful human-like being. .