VAS IST DAS?

We need to talk about Robert*  but that can be the title and topic of a future post. Before we do that we need to establish what sort of animal we're dealing with.

After a respite from a lot of Catholic 'nuttiness' it seems that the beast is back.

Here's an example: ON THE COMPANY IN HELL

"There will be no sympathy. Everyone will rejoice in each other's misery. The stench will be unbearable, the howling of once loved relatives, heart breaking. St Ansel said " As nothing in this world can be compared to the stench of the damned so to their (sic) hideous appearance."

That's an excerpt from the loony quote he published from some 17th century priest.

"Who turned the lights out?"

Really! 

Robert's a hard one to categorise given that he jumps about a bit in his (stated) beliefs and gets a bit confused about different disciplines.

With a look at the various 'ism' referred to in the title of this post  there are some that can be easily discounted like atheist, realist, socialist and communist when we refer to him, his beliefs and his writings but others I'm not so sure of. Propagandist springs to mind but as he is merely passing on the Catholic Church's weekly propaganda he picks up at Mass on the weekend he is probably more of a relistist.

If we concentrate on political and social beliefs we can narrow the focus down a bit and that's where the obvious things like deist, racist, sexist and  homophobist come in to play which are easily proven by reading his past posts if they haven't already been deleted (convenient that and proof that he's a denialist). 

What's more challenging is to tie him down to posts, comments and statements that he's written that  point to him being a fascist, a conservatist, a nationalist and an authoritarianist.

A lot of what Robert writes in posts and comments is disturbing but then, to give hime some credit, he surprises all the readers - well us two, by reversing that opinion and saying something cuddly and nice particularly when it relates to his own version of the nuclear family. More power to him I say although James Joyce probably said it first.

Recently Robert has been becoming an apologist. His 'heroes' are Christian and Catholic apologists and for the last several years we've been regaled with wittering from these egocentrics. Robert doesn't stop at being a Catholic or even a Christian apologist though - he wanders off into apologising for the at least dubious and at most nefarious actions and antics of Nazis, USA Republicans, Donald Trump, Catholic clergy paedophiles (covered already under Catholicism), John Key and his National party legacy that we are still suffering under and of course anti-abortionists.

I could go on - really, I could as after all according to Proofreading Services there are more than 1,100 words ending with 'ist' in the English language but it's (almost got another one) after 5PM and I promised The Old Girl that I'd cook tea tonight - tacos.

I'll end though - by cutting to the chase - that I think that Robert is an anarchist.

He's confused, conflicted and deluded and chucks 'bombs' into various arenas that he doesn't like or understand - kind of like what anarchists do.

Anarchism is a political and social philosophy and movement that is against all forms of philosophies and movements that are hard to understand and that don't mention the followers by name. It seeks to abolish the beliefs and institutions that it doesn't agree with - like Atheism, commonsense and realism and while it claims to maintain opposition to unnecessary coercion and hierarchy it typically supports right-wing governments, states and capitalism and their reactionary Christian codes for attacking women's rights, the LGBQT agendas, the abortion rights issues and a host of other  freedom movements. 

         The Curmudgeons encyclopedia

I wonder if 'Rob' who once saw things in the sky will add 'Anarchist' to his title?

* With apologies and thanks to the producers of that excellent 2011 film We Need To Talk About Kevin.