Ned Flaherty
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

So Eugene Peterson for a few days became a democrat, and then quickly reverted back to his life-long affliction of being a theocrat.

This silly switcheroo isn’t worthy of all the grateful applause or the choreographed anguish that it’s getting, on either side.

Peterson is an authoritarian theocrat. He rejects modern science — — not just for himself, but for all humanity — — because he wants his religious superstitions written into the civil laws governing everybody else.

Any small tyrant like Peterson running any small tyranny like religion is easily dispensed with. The only people who have to suffer being “at the table but without a voice” in these dictatorships are the people who willingly choose to be subservient in the first place.

Moving from the barn into the house may seem like an improvement at first, but be aware that both buildings are on the very same plantation.