Liberal Narcissism and Anti-Christian Phobia

The American Thinker ^ | April 11, 2010 | Deborah C. Tyler

[Scanian]

Americans have always expected national television broadcasters to steer clear of degrading epithets. On April 14, 2009, CNN's Anderson Cooper established a new low in television journalism when he labeled millions of Americans in the Tea Party movement with a vulgar sexual term. Other mainstream media journalists and personalities gleefully followed suit. There was no outcry from the "anti-hate community." Many liberals do not merely tolerate contumelies against conservatives, but they delight in them.

In the years after World War II, psychologists (many of whom were European Jews who had escaped Nazism) intensively studied how fascist and authoritarian states could bring ordinary people to commit extraordinary crimes against minorities. The two dominant personality theories of the twentieth century, the Freudian and Adlerian psychoanalytic models, provided theoretical frameworks for understanding bigotry and fascism as forms of individual and collective neurotic delusions. The Freudian model attributed these neuroses to a frustrated "will to pleasure," while Adler pointed to an unhealthy expression of the "will to power" over others.

For the most part, psychologists today deny or ignore anti-Christian prejudice in the American conversation. This is because psychologists are overwhelming politically liberal and spiritually humanist. In social science, bias in is bias out. In addition, America's dominant psychological model, behaviorism, has always been anti-theoretical and has not produced an integrated theory of personality equal in influence to either Freud or Adler.

[SkyPilot]

The two dominant personality theories of the twentieth century, the Freudian and Adlerian psychoanalytic models, provided theoretical frameworks for understanding bigotry and fascism as forms of individual and collective neurotic delusions

Which was (and is) collective bovine scatology.

The simple truth is: human beings are inherently sinful and wicked.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9

Without the restraining moral influence of Almighty God, humanity rapidly descends into incredible depravity, cruelty, malice, torture, murder, rape, and mayhem.

Without God, there is no hope for humanity.

People are still surprised that when God is thrown out of any society, that very society accelerates to Hell on earth with incredible speed.

This doesn't take a Psychologist or Psychiatrist to understand. God's word is clear.

It is only by God's grace and mercy (and direct intervention) that humanity is still around at all.

I believe that when Christ comes, and snatches away His own, the world will descend into unbelievable pain and evil in a very, very, very short time.

[ez]

The simple truth is: human beings are inherently sinful and wicked.

I disagree. I believe Humans possess equal amounts of good and evil. Like animals everywhere.

It is true, however, that when God is removed from the equation, they become free to act upon their most base inclinations without fear of consequence.

[Yet_Again]

“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.”
-John 15:18

[Woebama]

Although Freud and Adler agreed on the existence of unconscious fear as the core of neurotic anxiety, they had different explanations for it. Freud posited that bigotry arises when a child internalizes the prejudices of the father in order to resolve unconscious sexual conflicts in the process of superego formation. This thwarted “will to pleasure” is projected as hatred onto a scapegoat minority. Culturally, fear becomes fascistic, involving rigid group conformity against a common enemy. Freud’s model is obsolete. Anderson Cooper, and the Manhattan micro-niche he typifies, is not anxiously reacting to an overbearing father-figure. It is the extreme opposite. Mr. Cooper is the son of a fantastically permissive brand of humanism. The only thing he has to feel guilty about is guilt itself.
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Amusing . . . I’ll take the writer’s word for the Freudian analysis and it seems like she is dead on in saying that this analysis was reacting to one type of era/father (a moralistic German culture with traditionally “overbearing” fathers). What I found amusing was the Christian analysis of a “sin nature” playing itself out explains our current tendencies and the past tendencies without need for change in the analysis over time.

Hope I’ve been clear.

[OneWingedShark]

>>The simple truth is: human beings are inherently sinful and wicked.
>
>I disagree. I believe Humans possess equal amounts of good and evil. Like animals everywhere.

Question: What happens when you combine equal amounts of pure water and sewage?

Follow-up: Would you drink the result?