{"id":3603,"date":"2006-03-29T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/im-guessing-this-is-all-well-get.html"},"modified":"2006-03-29T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:03:50","slug":"im-guessing-this-is-all-well-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/im-guessing-this-is-all-well-get.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m guessing this is all we’ll get"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Neuhaus responds, in general, to critics. He names a few – but not Damon Linker.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have little stake in the label \u201cneoconservative,\u201d or in \u201cconservative,\u201d for that matter, but I understand that you can\u2019t have a vast conspiracy without labels. And I really do welcome criticism that raises interesting arguments. Those who have read FIRST <\/span>THINGS<\/span><\/u><\/a> over the years know that it is, for the most part, a sustained exercise in argument and counter-argument. I think of it as the continuing conversation, and relish the engagement of ideas within the bond of civility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But much of the chatter about theocons and theocracy is in a vulgar attack mode. Some might find it entertaining if I indulged in a point-by-point rebuttal to such attacks, but it would really be quite tedious, and we all have, or should have, better things to do with our time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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