Comments on: NT Wrong Has Fun With Labels

By: The Conservative-Liberal Continuum of Blogging (Again) « kata ta biblia

The Conservative-Liberal Continuum of Blogging (Again) « kata ta biblia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:35 +0000

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By: slaveofone

slaveofone — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:47:14 +0000

All this reminds me, Pat, about the (ahem) bed I shared with another man at SBL in 2007 in the room you wonderfully secured for all us folk. After doing a bit of probing, he decried the fact that he was (ahem) sharing a bed with one of those liberals… And yet I am quite certain NT Wrong would call me either Very or Fairly Conservative. I guess the labels all depend on which side of the bed you’re sleeping on…

By: Patrick George McCullough

Patrick George McCullough — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:30:49 +0000

By the way, I do put stock in many types of categorizations. I believe it’s helpful to do so. But I think we should be precise in our usage of categories and I don’t believe you are. Imprecise categorization, particularly when it is with terms so closely tied to highly charged rhetoric, does more harm than good.

By: Patrick George McCullough

Patrick George McCullough — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:07:42 +0000

NT Wrong, Thanks for the comment. So arguing your point with logic is very conservative? Is that the real reason you list yourself as very liberal?

By: N. T. Wrong

N. T. Wrong — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:50:22 +0000

Whoa – that’s a lot of words about categorizations from somebody who doesn’t hold a lot of stock in it. Sort of sounds very conservative to me.

By: J.C Baker

J.C Baker — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:45:33 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out to me Pat. I commented on Wrong’s blog that I should be in the liberal category. Actually, I said very liberal, but then I read his definitions (which I should have done before!) and changed it. I dont think this list is reliable at all regarding his categories.

By: Patrick George McCullough

Patrick George McCullough — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:36:02 +0000

Matthew, you better watch out. If he finds you here, he may categorize you!

By: Matthew D. Montonini

Matthew D. Montonini — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:02:50 +0000

Makes me glad I didn’t make his list. I don’t care much for labels–it does justice to very few.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:54:08 +0000

Exactly.