bettyboop: "Yes. I've noticed that too."
"...If human beings were basically good, it wouldn't be necessary to have an injunction against murder. In fact, it is the last thing we would need. People would, as a matter of course, realize how infinitely precious their own life is, and then, through a natural process of empathy, understand that everyone else's life is equally precious, and that would be that. Murder would be inconceivable because it would represent the ultimate injustice: the theft of something of infinite value which can never be replaced. .....
"Ironically, leftist nihilists rarely cite the Ten Commandments, but you will often hear them cite "thou shalt not kill" in support of their nihilist policies. Interesting that they misinterpret the one commandment of which they approve.
"And the reason they misinterpret this particular commandment is that it dovetails nicely with their deeply nihilistic and pacifist tendencies. For when you conflate murder and killing, you do two things: first, you minimize and even trivialize the horror of murder -- very similar to feminists who trivialize the horror of rape by equating it with any sex a woman regrets on the following day. But secondly, you convert the use of lethal violence against evil, which is a moral necessity, into something bad. Once again, you have overturned the moral order of the world. ......
"Most soul murders are undoubtedly committed by those who are already so spiritually damaged as to be functionally dead. ...... created when the soul has been so damaged that it essentially exits the body, leaving only a grotesque human-animal in its place. ......
"[They] also cannot help converting their children to their way of non-being. In ways both subtle and profound, they will interact with ...children in a pathological manner, causing the children to internalize the same virus that afflicts [them]. Regardless, the virus always goes by the name of “love,” which simply further confuses the child. In the end, they will not be able to distinguish the difference between love and hate or truth and lies, any more than they can distinguish between life and death. [...........]"
Thou Shalt not Kill, but [Soul] Murder is Fine
~ Robert W.Godwin [Gagdad Bob] , Ph.D - a clinical psychologist whose interdisciplinary work has focused on the relationship between contemporary psychoanalysis, chaos theory, and quantum physics.
"...Liberals, of course, want us to understand the terrorists. But one of the first things I learned in my psychoanalytic training is that real empathy has nothing to do with reinforcing someone's delusions just to make them feel better. Rather, it must involve things like confrontation, interpretation, clarification, etc. ..."
"...Long story short, I believe it is fair to say that, since Jesus is "true man," then all of the above observations must apply to him as well -- indeed, must apply to him quintessentially.
For he surely respects the distinctions within the Trinity, even while knowing that they cannot ultimately be separate; he has an unusually high degree of self-awareness, and with it, other-understanding, or empathy; has a total allegiance to Truth; and does not conflate celestial and terrestrial dimensions, despite the ubiquitous temptation to vote Democrat.
On this point, may I simply observe that the "liberal progressives" that I know, either directly or as represented through the MSM, are all united in and to "LOVE" — in the perfectly abstract.
What I mean is, they "love" abstract humanity. But they cannot stand members of their own family, or particular members of their own community....
No! It is our love for humanity in the abstract that innoculates us from any charge that we have been unloving to particular persons.
Like our actual, direct neighbors, for instance.
In short, they can only love in the abstract, but not in the particular case.
To me, this is the sickness of our age....
No wonder the child is confused....