Despite your gaggle of sycophants here, it's pretty obvious to me that yours is the polluted and depraved conscience of a committed sophist, intent on destroying all philosophical connections between your personal theology and any other discipline -- i.e., science.
And despite your gaggle of sycophants here, the apparent fact -- revealed only by you -- that the Free Republic religious community cannot tolerate your nonsense, tells me there is a huge group of others who share my feelings.
On this non-religious thread, the flaws in your logic & intent should be readily apparent: 1) you consistently lump together both the guilty (i.e., Marxists) and the innocent (anyone else who disagrees with you), and 2) You falsely accuse the innocent of whatever sin you yourself fervently practice. 3) You consistently fail to answer simple questions about your own assertions.
These practices fail to work on non-religious forums, just as they do on religious ones.
Got to run, out of time, more later...
Think about it, FRiend.
BroJoeK: Despite your gaggle of sycophants here, it's pretty obvious to me that yours is the polluted and depraved conscience of a committed sophist, intent on destroying all philosophical connections between your personal theology and any other discipline — i.e., science.
Dear BroJoeK, I gather you hold in contempt spirited irish's concerns, that she is a religious wing-nut who has worked to gather about herself a crowd of like-minded "sycophants." I find it funny how incensed some of our correspondents on this thread are that Linda Kimball's "Falling Stars, Damnable Heresy, and the Spirit of Evolution" article has not been removed to the Religion Forum. (It continues to sit here on News/Activism, as far as I can tell.)
But if I understand it correctly, this article is not "about religion." It's about the degradation of human culture and civilization ever since the Enlightenment, and its impact on the American order of liberty and equal justice.
Thomas Sowell opened his NY Post op-ed this past Saturday (November 30, p. 21) with these lines:
Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization. Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians.That's sort of how I see things. I suspect that spirited irish sees it that way, too.
Having read your profile page and noted your expressed sympathy for the values and principles of the Framers, and your statement that you are "here to defend an original constitutionalist interpretation of history," it is a real puzzle to me that you seem at the same time to want to undermine the very cultural foundation of American order: Which is that we are a people under God, from whom we have received fundamental, unalienable rights that no State of whatever form may infringe or deny. The people do not exist for the State; the State exists for the people; and its mandate is very narrow.
Power really is a zero-sum game. The State can aggrandize itself only by taking away the liberties of the people. If people don't defend their liberty against State encroachment, then very soon they will lose it altogether.
All in hopes of installing an "ideal State," a/k/a a humanly-ordained progressive utopia entirely run by "experts" (usually for their own benefit and the benefit of their friends), that will signal the "End of History" — as Hegel put it.
Possibly you will deny having done this. You would argue, "I'm only here to defend science against the "anti-science crowd" out there. (Who you classify mainly as religious fanatics.)
You allege you have never seen anyone around FR beat up on a Christian. Jeepers, guy — you've been here about 9 years now, and you can say that with a straight face?
In any case, I do hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Sorry my reply to your last is so tardy, but I've been away the past several days.
Thank you for writing, dear BroJoeK!