{"id":35,"date":"2009-04-20T23:33:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/the-strange-case-of-little-green-footballs.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T23:33:30","slug":"the-strange-case-of-little-green-footballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/the-strange-case-of-little-green-footballs.html","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a hoot to be fired upon by <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/33431_Discovery_Institutes_Klinghoffer-_Darwins_Tree_of_Death\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>. A friend emails, &#8220;He proved himself a demagogue by what he didn&#8217;t quote&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/slouching-toward-columbine-charles-darwins-poisonous-legacy.html\">my earlier post<\/a>.\u00a0Last time this happened, I wrote a series at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/\">Evolution News &amp; Views<\/a> analyzing that odd but extremely popular blog&#8217;s stance &#8212; read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2009\/02\/the_strange_case_of_little_gre.html\">Part I<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2009\/02\/the_strange_case_of_little_gre_1.html\">Part II<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolutionnews.org\/2009\/02\/the_strange_case_of_little_gre_2.html\">Part III<\/a> &#8212; and replying to his uninformed attack on me. I sent Charles Johnson, the blog&#8217;s author, an email asking for his response but he never answered. Predictably. What these people simply won&#8217;t do is confront the facts &#8212; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/dont-look-there-introducing-this-blog.html\">Look there<\/a>,&#8221; as I like to say.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a hoot to be fired upon by Little Green Footballs. A friend emails, &#8220;He proved himself a demagogue by what he didn&#8217;t quote&#8221; from my earlier post.\u00a0Last time this happened, I wrote a series at Evolution News &amp; Views analyzing that odd but extremely popular blog&#8217;s stance &#8212; read Part I, Part II,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs - Kingdom of Priests<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/04\/the-strange-case-of-little-green-footballs.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs - Kingdom of Priests\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s always a hoot to be fired upon by Little Green Footballs. 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