Comments on: The Conservative-Liberal Continuum of Blogging (Again)

By: Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:56:16 +0000

How about we use the alignment system of dungeons and dragons? There are two axes: good vs. evil, and law vs. chaos.

Someone who is neutral good would be like a nurse who treats wounded soldiers from both sides.

James bond would be lawful neutral. He doesn’t go out of his way to do good deeds, but he does his job (which happens to be a law-enforcing job of sorts).

Lawful evil would be a dark knight who is quite vicious in combat, but refuses to harm non-combatants or anyone disarmed.

Etc. etc.

Of course, I am completely joking about this suggestion.

By: Daniel Doleys

Daniel Doleys — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:42:59 +0000

What about allowing the author a 5-word theological description. For instance I would classify my site as: “Broadly Evangelical and Broadly Reformed”. Could that work?

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:51:55 +0000

I posted on this topic as one of the dissenters. Per usual.

By: Christopher Heard

Christopher Heard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:58:28 +0000

Very interesting post, Pat. If anybody ever again does take up the notion of plotting bibliobloggers on a graph, I hope they'll use your 3d space, or something like it. I can still see some issues, however. Where do you put a "God said it, I believe it, that settles it" person on the methodology spectrum—somebody who wants nothing to do with historical criticism and even less to do with ideological criticism, deconstruction, and so on? Would an extreme fundamentalist be at -10 on the conservative-to-liberal method scale, a dyed-in-the-wool historical critic at 0, and a deconstructionist at +10? And did I just give a way too much about myself by putting the liberal spectrum with positive numbers? Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we venture to categorize!