Well, Daniel Morgan put a comment on my blog, so I checked out his website again (I haven’t had time for about a week or so).  Yup, he’s playing the “holier than thou” card now, ripping on Haggard, etc.

The funny thing is…Daniel still has never given me what the basis of his morality is (well aside from “empathy”–but if I don’t empathize with him then why should his morality trump mine?). 

So Daniel spends lots of time criticizing believers for being hypocrites (he even links to a site that shows a whole twelve of them!) yet he hasn’t established why hypocrisy is wrong in the first place.  He criticizes people for not obeying the Scriptures while A) he does not obey Scriptures, B) he doesn’t believe Scriptures, and C) he has no reason from his worldview to criticize us for not obeying Scriptures.  (By the way, I think if you’re looking for a definition, part A about would be the definition for hypocrisy…).

But the totally ironic part is that Daniel doesn’t even believe what Haggard did was immoral in the first plac; it was only what he said that was immoral.  Yes, Daniel thinks he’s immoral for denouncing homosexuality while practicing it, but Haggard was not immoral for actually behaving that way.  Furthermore, Daniel somehow presumes that if Haggard is immoral then all believers must be immoral too (the fallacy of composition); thus, because one of our “leaders” is a hypocrite (and I note that he wasn’t my leader anyway) then we are hypocrites too.  How this follows is anyone’s guess.  Apparently, Daniel seems to think it makes a might good argument against Christianity, as he’s quite able to get his dander up and rip on Christians who would support Haggard but wouldn’t feed a homeless person.  (Again, how he got that conclusion is beyond me: I can look at who runs our local soup kitchens and who actually works in them: 95% Christians.)

But hey, I guess it’s easier to yell “hypocrite” than to actually engage in important philosophical discussions on issues.  So, Daniel, you’re a hypocrite.  I win.  :-)

Man, why didn’t I think of this tactic before???