Human and hellbound
Matt Weaver, Chief Designer
Issue date: 10/22/04 Section: Opinion
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Fie, Mr. Bowman, fie! You are a common street preacher, therefore your legitimacy and credibility are obviously not at issue, but your message of free thought is severely undermined by your vehement advocacy of book burning. Adolf Hitler had a similar message, and I'm assuming even you would agree that he's probably roasting as we speak.
Although I will stop short of calling Bowman a Nazi on these pages, as he is nothing of the sort, I will advise him to kindly practice at least a modicum of consistency in proliferating his particular brand of God's love for the huddled, college-going masses. Mr. Bowman, in all his eloquence, has obviously given the Christian Bible a close read, but he evidently missed that handful of paragraphs detailing the availability of God's love to every sentient being.
And it's funny, but free speech rights are a lot like that divine adoration. They exclude no one-not even the British author of a series of harmless children's books about boys and girls running around in robes waving wands in the hallowed halls of a private secondary school.
It's all in good fun, Mr. Bowman. Despite your heavenly calling, you must recognize that-after all, I am talking to the man who wrote and performed the "Camel Toe is Evil" song.
Matt Weaver is chief designer and editorial writer. His column appears on Fridays.
Although I will stop short of calling Bowman a Nazi on these pages, as he is nothing of the sort, I will advise him to kindly practice at least a modicum of consistency in proliferating his particular brand of God's love for the huddled, college-going masses. Mr. Bowman, in all his eloquence, has obviously given the Christian Bible a close read, but he evidently missed that handful of paragraphs detailing the availability of God's love to every sentient being.
And it's funny, but free speech rights are a lot like that divine adoration. They exclude no one-not even the British author of a series of harmless children's books about boys and girls running around in robes waving wands in the hallowed halls of a private secondary school.
It's all in good fun, Mr. Bowman. Despite your heavenly calling, you must recognize that-after all, I am talking to the man who wrote and performed the "Camel Toe is Evil" song.
Matt Weaver is chief designer and editorial writer. His column appears on Fridays.
