Posted on 05/20/2022 4:00:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
We live in times of moral crisis. Reason has led to incredible advances in scientific knowledge and discovery, the most productive, dynamic societies in world history. However, reason alone is without a moral compass. Reason unchained leads to slaughter; slaughter is reasonable in pursuit of amoral goals.
For a long time, proponents of the Enlightenment and its values leaned on Christianity to provide that compass, but people began straying from that well over a century ago, and there's nothing there to replace it for many people. Enter cultural Marxism.
Nietzsche was right to herald the death of God in people's lives and to openly worry about the consequences. If liberty is to survive, we need to publish, promote, and live with a moral compass based upon Judeo-Christian values — more "Onward Christian Soldiers" and a lot less "kumbaya," a lot less altruism, and a whole lot more virtuous living as defined by the classicists — e.g., the Nicomachean ethics, stoicism's cardinal virtues. Faith, hope, and charity are meaningful only after one has secured his own place in his own mind, and in our world through virtuous living. Charity is impossible without spiritual or material wealth. And faith, without works, is dead (James 2:14-26).
Arguably, cultural Marxists have hitched a free ride from what Nietzsche termed bad conscience and the inversion of values propounded by those whom he termed history's most profoundly adroit haters: the priests of Catholicism and its offshoots. The Reformation was a big step forward in his view, but even then, Christianity never lost the bad conscience-induced hatreds born of misdirected guilt and the inverted values used by prelates to groom their flocks. Faith is fading, but bad conscience persists.
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“more “Onward Christian Soldiers” and a lot less “kumbaya,” a lot less altruism, and a whole lot more virtuous living as defined by the classicists “
We are infested with “pathological compassion” . It destroys both the receiver and the giver.
We need to return to personal responsibility and tough love.
We have too much freedom and too little responsibility.
We always live in a time of moral crisis. Temptations are out there in the best of times.
We live in an age of apathy and capitulation — enter Evil.
Uh-Oh. You brought up Marxism.
Expect the Ukraine wing of FR attack.
That’s why I keep warning ⚠️ the world.
Satan is about to introduce his anti-messiah as a man of “peace”.
Daniel 8:23-25
King James Version
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%208%3A23-25&version=KJV
Daniel 12:10
King James Version
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%2012%3A10&version=KJV
Thanks. Today’s parallels are scary.
Indeed, brother.
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