Posted on 10/05/2014 10:37:37 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Both Excessive Religion & Unbridled Atheism Have Waged War Against Humans
Having now spent four weeks investigating the history of the Right of Resistance, that is—the right to oppose unjust leaders, we now delve into the deplorable history of the intellectual support of tyranny. It is remarkable that whether these tyranny-loving writers were pseudo-religious, or atheistic, how destructive their approach was towards society.
For the most influential religious absolutists, Jean Bodin and Robert Filmer, one Catholic, one Protestant; their debased Christianity was used to argue God placed the king on the throne, and therefore any criticism of the king was an attack on God. Contra, the philosophers all tended to be atheists, who—in the name of quelling unrest, simply disbanded natural law, or any right to resist evil leaders, no matter how bloodthirsty or power mad. One only need remember the crazed reigns of Lenin, Stalin and Mao to realize the worst political theories trade God for cruel and utterly ruinous philosophies.
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If it’s free it’s for me mentality is a disease and they will never bite the hand that feeds them
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