{"id":5845,"date":"2013-05-05T05:12:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T04:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2013-05-07T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:01:29","slug":"niall-ferguson-was-right-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/niall-ferguson-was-right-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Ferguson Was Right First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scottish historian Niall Ferguson put \u00a0a public apology<\/strong><\/a> on his website yesterday after suggesting that the spend-your-way-out-of-recession approach of economist John Maynard Keynes was inspired by his homosexuality. (Read the BBC report, ‘Niall Ferguson apology over Keynes remarks<\/strong><\/a>.’)<\/p>\n

The Harvard professor made the remarks at a conference in California on Thursday after being asked to comment on Mr Keynes’s famous observation that \u201cin the long run we are all dead.\u201d Dr Ferguson suggested that Keynes\u2019 unconcern for future generations was related to being both gay and childless. He\u00a0reportedly said<\/strong><\/a> that \u201cit’s only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an \u2018effete\u2019 member of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson\u2019s remarks raised controversy throughout the internet, and he was quickly condemned for being homophobic, ignorant and even mad.<\/p>\n

In his retraction<\/a><\/strong>, Dr. Ferguson said, \u201cIt is simply false to suggest, as I did, that his approach to economic policy was inspired by any aspect of his personal life. As those who know me and my work are well aware, I detest all prejudice, sexual or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his retraction, Christian Voice<\/em> believes Dr. Ferguson was right the first time. We have reported<\/strong> <\/a>on the British economist John Maynard Keynes before, showing how his rejection of the Biblical \u201csowing and reaping principle\u201d in favour of immediate gratification formed the basis both of his deviant sexual lifestyle and his economic theories. Recognizing the obvious connection between Keynes’ personal life and his economic theory is not a matter of sexual prejudice, but of history.<\/p>\n

A paedophile who governed his life by the principle that \u201cin the long run we are all dead\u201d, Keynes was himself the first to suggest that his approach to economic policy was inspired by his immoral life. Keynes wrote, \u201cWhen the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

As this quotation suggests, it is simply not possible to disengage Keynes’ economic theories from his worldview – a worldview deeply rooted in the deviance of his personal life. That is why we believe that Niall Ferguson was right the first time.<\/p>\n

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Scottish historian Niall Ferguson put \u00a0a public apology on his website yesterday after suggesting that the spend-your-way-out-of-recession approach of economist John Maynard Keynes was inspired by his homosexuality. (Read the BBC report, ‘Niall Ferguson apology over Keynes remarks.’) The Harvard professor made the remarks at a conference in California on Thursday after being asked to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality-trans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Robin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/robin\/"},"rttpg_comment":19,"rttpg_category":"Homosexuality & Trans<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Scottish historian Niall Ferguson put \u00a0a public apology on his website yesterday after suggesting that the spend-your-way-out-of-recession approach of economist John Maynard Keynes was inspired by his homosexuality. (Read the BBC report, ‘Niall Ferguson apology over Keynes remarks.’) The Harvard professor made the remarks at a conference in California on Thursday after being asked to…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}