Art Bell call your office.
...taugbt in schools...
We Are Finished!
Jung said if you have no belief in God then you constilate the God complex within, you become the highest power for morals. So morals become situational.
If you don’t believe in something, you’ll believe in anything.
"Ross Douthat has written powerfully about the political consequences of post-Christian conservatism. It turns out that when men and women shed their faith, they don’t necessarily get more liberal, but they do get more tribal and vicious."
Tribal and vicious is a reference to something the NeverTrumpers were harping on during the election: that Trump and his supporters are "nativists."
French is the chinless weirdo who nearly ran for President to vainly attempt to help Hillary win the election.
This article is a thinly veiled attempt to tell people that Trump supporters are "post-Christian" because they support deportation.
Nevertheless, I suppose there may or may not be some correct observations in his overall message, except for this tribal nonsense. If anything, the less religious people become, the more liberal, and the more globalistic.
..I’d urge you to read a fascinating article in this Sunday’s New York Times
NY Slimes? Pass. More than likely 99 and 44/100ths percent Bullshit.
Better to put the pages in the outhouse where they can be put to a use they qualify for.
Here’s the wikipedia introduction to Victor Frankl’s book on the subject:
Man’s Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. According to Frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. The book intends to answer the question “How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?” Part One constitutes Frankl’s analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory called logotherapy.
According to a survey conducted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Library of Congress, Man’s Search For Meaning belongs to a list of “the ten most influential books in the United States.”[1] At the time of the author’s death in 1997, the book had sold over 10 million copies and had been translated into 24 languages.[2][3]
This is a fantastic book. It should be required reading in our schools. That wikipedia introduction isn’t very good and doesn’t do the book justice, but that was what was available.
The author states it as mankind “wants” to have meaning and purpose in life. Frankl says it is more than that. Humans NEED purpose.
The modern welfare state completely fails humanity. By just giving out free stuff, the government robs people of their purpose, steals all meaning from the lives, and condemns people to a sorry, unhappy existence. Without struggle and a little bit of hardship people are guaranteed to be unhappy. This is alluded to in the book of Genesis when Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden. They were now required to work the land to provide for themselves. This is how it must be.
A Post-Christian America will happen 1 nanosecond after the Rapture!
The irony with this one is thick, since if one asked an urban elitist, “Where are you most likely to find someone who is gullible, intolerant, and superstitious,” they would almost certainly guess a red state or “unsophisticated” rural area.
Guess the joke’s on them.
Chesterton called this one a long time ago. Rodney Stark of Baylor also showed this to be the case about (IIRC) a decade ago, when a study his students carried out showed that lack of religious belief and belief in weird stuff were positively correlated.
Yep, history goes on, the problems mankind faces may change, but the answer is still Jesus.
Davis French has been so unrelentingly foul and nasty re: Trump that he is in no position to speak on the morality of any other Americans.
Bump for later read
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama did one incredible impression of the Antichrist. Brought the Devil’s own social agendas right into American lives on a near-daily basis, pushing weirdo agendas while bankrupting the country.
The blindness to his scams had to be on some sort of supernatural level. Since Barack routinely omitted God and often acted against the Apple of the God of Israel’s Eye, Israel, I say he was empowered by the prince of this world, a.k.a. the god (small ‘g’) of this world.
Go back and watch the Democrats boo the God of Israel and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Not to mention other basic Democrat agendas......
Why didn’t you post this on the Religion forum?
Your posting and the comments I’ve read do NOT = News!