Oh, oh, the crazy is even deeper than that! See, he thinks Islam and Judaism and Christianity all have good points, and he accepts all their holy books as valid Words of God in general, but at the same time he thinks that none of them in isolation quite give the whole picture. So his religion is his own personal Abrahamic monotheistic blend of all three.
You also need to see the bits where in the gospel according to Sim, women are not just light-sucking voids, but intrinsically irrational beings ruled by emotion and incapable of rational male-style thought. This is why, like children, they have well-padded buttocks, the better to spank them into proper behavior. (And men who disagree with him, well, their problem is that they've been brainwashed since birth by the "feminist/homosexualist axis" that controls modern Western society and is the root of all that's wrong with the world today.)
Trust me, I've read a fair bit of Card's blog postings and a lot of the recurring Sim wank, and they're on totally different levels. Card's logic doesn't always make sense, but the basic moral and political philosophies he's espousing are pretty much on par with other folks of similarly conservative religious and political bent; his theology in particular seems to be pretty much in line with official LDS positions. While he's obviously out of step with folks of differing religious or political bents, he's not really coming up with these ideas out of a vacuum, there are folks who'd be in full agreement with him. Sim...he's just on another planet. He had a nervous breakdown in 1979 and has said in print that at the time, he was diagnosed as borderline schizophrenic. And it sounds like he never really got any help with his mental illness (he goes on to sneer at his mother and then-wife "getting scared" about the diagnosis and wanting to push him to seek medical help, "the court of first resort for most emotion-based beings"), but he rejects the whole idea of schizophrenia as being just another manifestation of the "fundamental, primary, seminal schism between emotion-based feminine reality and reason-based masculine reality". No, really. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. Card may have Issues, but Sim I fear has gone far beyond Issues into flat-out clinical Crazy.
(Yes, he's divorced now. Long since. And celibate for religious reasons. And he's so sick and tired of the feminist/homosexualist critics who are incapable of reason that he now will not engage in any correspondence unless the other party opens their letter or email with a statement that they don't believe he is a misogynist. I could go on and on. It's real trainwreck stuff, almost too sad to be funny for the most part.)
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Date: 2008-08-02 07:00 am (UTC)You also need to see the bits where in the gospel according to Sim, women are not just light-sucking voids, but intrinsically irrational beings ruled by emotion and incapable of rational male-style thought. This is why, like children, they have well-padded buttocks, the better to spank them into proper behavior. (And men who disagree with him, well, their problem is that they've been brainwashed since birth by the "feminist/homosexualist axis" that controls modern Western society and is the root of all that's wrong with the world today.)
Trust me, I've read a fair bit of Card's blog postings and a lot of the recurring Sim wank, and they're on totally different levels. Card's logic doesn't always make sense, but the basic moral and political philosophies he's espousing are pretty much on par with other folks of similarly conservative religious and political bent; his theology in particular seems to be pretty much in line with official LDS positions. While he's obviously out of step with folks of differing religious or political bents, he's not really coming up with these ideas out of a vacuum, there are folks who'd be in full agreement with him. Sim...he's just on another planet. He had a nervous breakdown in 1979 and has said in print that at the time, he was diagnosed as borderline schizophrenic. And it sounds like he never really got any help with his mental illness (he goes on to sneer at his mother and then-wife "getting scared" about the diagnosis and wanting to push him to seek medical help, "the court of first resort for most emotion-based beings"), but he rejects the whole idea of schizophrenia as being just another manifestation of the "fundamental, primary, seminal schism between emotion-based feminine reality and reason-based masculine reality". No, really. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. Card may have Issues, but Sim I fear has gone far beyond Issues into flat-out clinical Crazy.
(Yes, he's divorced now. Long since. And celibate for religious reasons. And he's so sick and tired of the feminist/homosexualist critics who are incapable of reason that he now will not engage in any correspondence unless the other party opens their letter or email with a statement that they don't believe he is a misogynist. I could go on and on. It's real trainwreck stuff, almost too sad to be funny for the most part.)