I get hate mail (and was called a Nazi)

The Daily Dissidence has been barraged with some hate mail over posts on the separation of church and state and the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

An anonymous reader gave me a brief history lesson on the separation of church and state. (S)he stated...

"Just a brief history lesson in regards to separation of church and state. The last two major nations to separate church from state were communist soviet union and Nazi Germany. I do not think anyone in their right mind would want Canada to be included into such regimes."

Thanks for the history lesson. Next time, please be confident enough with your criticism to leave a link to your blog and/or site, so I can comment on your posts. To address your point, which by the way, is totally wacky, I really don't have much to say. I didn't suggest that I wanted Canada to become like Nazi Germany, although there are certain parts of the communist Soviet Union that I would like Canada to emulate. And no, Stalin isn't one of them. If you're not happy with my opinions, my suggestion is pray to your god, and maybe he'll smite me (but probably not). And to give you a history lesson, the official separation of church and state is a long established political doctrine that has taken root in political thought for quite some time, including the works of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Although perhaps this, along with the theory of evolution, is a foreign concept to you.

"Rabbit" has commented on my post on the growing gap between rich and poor. (S)he stated...

"The trendy way to insult someone is tack "neo" onto the front of the name of their political affiliations, without much thought or description as to what that might actually mean. It sounds derogatory, and that's enough. What are you, some kind of neosocialist?"

Umm, did you even read my post? You made absolutely no comment on the gap between rich or poor, which is weird since that's what the post was about. So I blamed the growing gap between rich and poor on neo-liberalism, which is in-line with Thomas Walkom's original analysis. I'm well aware why the 'neo' was put in front of liberalism, and it had nothing to do with Keanu Reeves and/or the Matrix. Perhaps you should have a look at a definition of neo-liberalism, and I've kindly provided you with one, which might help you to understand complex political ideology in the future. Indeed, there are clear differences between liberalism and neo-liberalism; sadly, you seem to be unaware of these. Does this make you a neo-idiot, or just an idiot? Either way, you may want to become more familiar with political philosophy before you start using phrases you can't identify. And no, I don't subscribe to neo-socialism, which includes post-war social democracy and 'third way' social democracy. I don't know why I even said that, it's not like you'll understand it anyway.