Christian Scientists & Liberal Scientists

I have always enjoyed pondering the imponderable. Like, if a cannibal tribe attacks and eats the children of a neighboring tribe, is that meat considered veal? Or, what is there to compare the liberal mind to? (There's no need for such language!) Then Whammo, it pole axed me upside the head, they're just like Christian Scientists. And as someone who was raised in Christian Science and also as a former liberal, the parallels were uncanny.

For those that don't know, in Christian Science everything you see is just a false image, seen only by our mortal minds. What we see is just F.E.A.R.-False Evidence Appearing Real. Got it? Good, now explain it to me. Gazing at it now as an outsider, what Christian Science really does is take an exceedingly crappy world and transmutes it into another world, the real world's antipode, where everything is beautiful and smells sweet.

In practice it really is a break with reality, prestidigitating your own realm in your own mind where all mortal strife, peccability and rancor is transmogrified into an idyllic version of the world as it should be. That also happens to be the exact definition of your poor Uncle Jeb that lives in your attic and screams at the cartoon characters for betraying him! (Oh Porkie, you're so mean!) Christian Scientists, sickened by life (hard to blame them actually), create their own, shall we say, alternative reality.

As some of you may know, there are actually some psychiatrists (yes, real ones), that have long opined that liberalism is a form of mental illness. Why? Everything in liberalism is based on the notion of "what should be" and not what actually is. They create in their own minds a utopian dream of the world. They even write songs about it, like "What's so Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding," Then they stand back like they actually stumped you for an answer. Of course the rudimentary reply is that peace, love and understanding are nice things to wish for (So are presents from Santa), but in the actual world we live in, of psychotic people and demonical nations, "peace, love and understanding (giving them flowers while they are raping you), invading your country and severing your children's heads might be considered somewhat simple-minded. (Oh gee, I hope I don't offend anybody).

Oh if only, if only the world operated the way they wanted! But this never seems to phase the "Liberal Scientists." Since they believe they are always on the "right side of history," (A very common notion in many asylums as well), the reality of their positions never seems to rudely intrude upon their precious little snowflake encephalons (That be your noggin'). Just look, in the last 50 years, domestically (since the mid-sixties) there have been endless programs, pogroms, outreach, uplifting, social schemes and engineering to the tune of billions, if not by now, trillions of dollars. To what end? What do we have to show for all this magnamity? 312 murdered in Chicago so far this year, and we're not even halfway through the year yet, (6-29-2016).

But the "Liberal Scientists" are never ever able to question what amounts to their belief system. Their devotion and allegiance to their faith is sacrosanct. They have their own gods-MLK and Mandela, they have their own Popes and Bishops-The 3 Kennedy amigos, they even have their own set of high priests-Obama and the charming Clintons. Of course they have many articles of faith-their adherence to political correctness is to a fault. P.C. is just their way of trying to silence the opposition the exact, and I do mean exact, same way blasphemy did in an earlier age. There is no difference. Where you might have been burned at the stake for witchcraft, now you are burned at the stake of public opinion (the shaming tactics they always try). It's always the same. Want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie, piss off a liberal, tell him the truth.

The character of the "Liberal Scientists?" As they warm their righteous little hands on the crackling heat of their latest witch burning, they get that rush, that buzz. What buzz? The one that massages their egos. It says to them, see we do good works, we are better than our peers. This self-righteous, self-deluded rush of narcissism is the basis of liberalism. This is what drives it. This is why they're in the game. The people they champion? Please. They are mere pawns from a plastic chess set bought at the local 99 cent store. Nothing more. It's all about that big self-righteous rush. As good as crank I've been told. All they need do is point their cadaverous, hypocritical fingers at the rest of the world. What a racket.

Really, the Christian Scientists and the Liberal Scientists have much in common. They both peer out and see what they want to see, not what is. Now, back to your poor Uncle Jeb, He's still in your attic, and Porkie continues to give him a hard time! (Yes, Porkie is mean, it's true!) Whenever he acts up too much the men in the white coats carrying the big nets occasionally have to chase him down all over the neighborhood and snag him. But, go nuts with thousands or millions of others and you're not nuts, you're part of a special movement of the grandiose righteous. The Christian Scientists and the Liberal Scientists. What's the difference? Geez, I really can't think of any. Can you?

Christian Science is neither Christian nor science.

Yeah. As a young boy, a scientific nerd who also a theological nerd, I found that group highly perplexing.

All the Christian Scientists I know are very good, caring, intelligent people. Some are high up in government and entertainment. One is an aspiring supermodel, deservedly so. Their theology has beauty to it, rather than worshiping due to suffering they focus on the miracles and deeds. But their practices are harmful.

There is no way Gd minds people trying to help other people. Gd also has created a world with bacteria who also have their own best interests at heart, and sometimes we need to fight them. Setting a bone or surgery are such valuable practices, how can one “not believe in” them? I agree that medicine isn’t a lord and master: the industry also is greedy and self serving, and alternatives should always be sought. But in my religion humans are junior partners with Gd with a job to help Him make this world a better place. Good doctors are doing so. You CAN pray for healing AND take a pain killer at the same time (Christian Scientists won’t pray if an aspirin was taken).

The idea that nothing matters except the spirit just doesn’t fit our earthly realm. It is a very phony religion, sorry. People punish the sick socially, as if it is their lack of prayer and study that caused an illness. I am very sour on the religion at this point.

And I get the author’s comparison. It kind of works. Libs imagining that there exists a utopia where no one differentiates between any race or orientation so that something brand new like gay marriage ALWAYS EXISTED and a 90 year old American should be shunned for having trouble with the concept.

They both peer out and see what they want to see, not what is.

To think or not to think is man's primary choice. Evasion is the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think, because of the anti-effort mentality, or to avoid a bad feeling, or in order to escape the responsibility of judgment, on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it.

“To think or not to think is man’s primary choice.”

As I learned long ago in Philosophy 101 (Logic): Beware the false major premise.

You posit the premise as if simply thinking will deliver us from all our woes. Look at the long line of philosophers and other thinkers. Thinking hasn’t delivered us from our woes even though it has been tried - and diligently! - for centuries, why would it work now?

While I neither agree with liberal scientists or Christian Scientists, I don’t find your solution any more compelling ... the problem is greater than that which you have framed. There is something else, something magnitudes more fundamental wrong with the human condition.

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