Posted on 05/24/2021 4:59:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the minds of progressives — in culture, government and religion — truth is purely subjective. Except when it comes to bolstering an agenda.
Our nation's issues have nothing to do with preferred pronouns or fake insurrections or manic pushes for equity. They stem from an application of subjective truth to virtually everything.
Consider our founding charter. Progressives say the Constitution is a living, breathing document that must adapt to the times. As if the principles of liberty require adjustment because things have changed so much in a mere 234 years.
Do progressives truly believe we should reinterpret the Constitution to fit their perception of reality? Or because it's more to the liking of people who pretend that its truths are somehow less true with the passage of time?
Regarding truth, its meaning comes down to one question: Is it contingent on reality or feels? The notion that truth is whatever we feel it is -- your truth, my truth -- is absurd. The reality is that we all operate in a world of absolute truth, and we all affirm its supremacy a thousand times a day whether we accept it or not.
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As in politics, progressive leaders in Christianity believe that the Bible is not Scripture, but is merely a "library of books" written by men whose prejudices and viewpoints make it unreliable as a guide for Christian living.
Question: If the Bible is a library of books, who's the managing editor?
Rather than reject all Scripture, church progressives cherry-pick Bible truths they can live with it. Consider the easily digestible maxim that God is love. To them, God is only love. He doesn't ask anything of them in terms of obedience or justice or truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Qur'an 3:54 - Literal: And they cheated/deceived and Allah cheated/deceived, and Allah (is) the best (of) the cheaters/deceivers.[2]
Truth
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Galt’s Speech - Rand
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
TRUE
Leftists claim there is no such thing as truth. If this is so, how can this claim be true?
If indeed Allah is the best of cheaters/deceivers according to the Quran, then Allah is indeed Satan by the Quran’s own admission.
“In the minds of progressives truth is purely subjective.”
One of the great dangers is that these ideas are also starting to infect the right. It used to be that conservatives believed in Truth. Biblical truth, scientific truth, cultural truth.
We can see that on this site with the cohort of anti-vaxxers. Once an anti-truth ideology of the radical left anti-vax has been embraced by a post-truth portion of the right.
Yes. And the Bible says that Lucifer is the father of lies.
Jihad Watch is one of my bookmarked sites.
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Politics is the art of telling the big lies. Politics is not a war of ideas, but a war of interests. Like all wars, the first casualty is the truth. The truth eventually returns, but the lies buy enough time to inflict damage.
“...man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth...”
Of course, and that’s why Liberals work SO hard to demean and ultimately remove all ‘standards’.
Progressives?
Truth?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahah.
it is a living breathing document that changes with the times
it has 27 amendments
yes. standards? we don’t have to show you know steenkin’ standards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1-nkqwmjI
Good presentation by Victoria. 34:00 minutes
Former friend, a lib gone nuts, pronounced a while back: “You know, there was a study that proved liberals have a higher IQ than conservatives.” I simply replied, “OK. And I’m sure there are studies out there that show just the opposite!” “No! No! This was PROVEN! You’re just showing that you don’t believe in SCIENCE or TRUTH!”. This from an MBA. Gads.
It has been my view for some time that one of the most destructive concepts introduced by Leftism into the world is the concept of relativism.
Many things we encounter in our life have a duality to them. A hammer may be used to build a beautiful piece of furniture, but may also be used to extinguish a human life.
Words are no different. And leftists delight in using the concept of duality to their advantage in the appropriation of the use of language and symbols to their own ends.
As an example, to many of us, the word “gay” had a valid and useful meaning, to be happy and carefree. In these times, it has quite a different meaning, and if the statistics on the mental health of homosexuals are to be believed, in an ironic cultural twist, “gay” is no longer “happy and carefree”. There are many words like that...”diversity” is one such word. And it isn’t just words they appropriate. They do the same with symbols, and one example of a beautiful symbol debased by the Left, is the rainbow.
And so it is with relativism.
What was once a useful and relevant term is now imbued with all things negative due to the bastardizing wordsmithing of the Left.
The reason that this bears on the subject is due to the Leftist concept of “cultural relativism” and how it was used by the left as a camel’s nose in the tent for many other types of relativism, particularly “reality relativism”, otherwise more precisely known as “truth relativism”.
In cultural relativism, all cultures have equal value. This is an absurd viewpoint, because clearly not all cultures have equal value. The culture of Pol Pot’s regime and Stalin’s regime are not in the same universe as nearly any Western culture that is steeped in the values of individual human rights. This is unarguable.
But once the Left got people to swallow “cultural relativism”, it was not a great leap to “truth relativism”.
In truth relativism, all truths are relative, and all truths have equal value. In other words, the truth as viewed by one person is just as valid as the truth viewed by another person even if they are 100% diametrically opposed to each other. If we look up into a cloudless sky and state the truth that it is blue, the truth offered by the person who says it is not blue is supposedly just as valid.
Nobody is allowed to have their truth refuted, which means that there is no such thing as truth.
Or, put more bluntly: Everything is a lie. (This should start to sound familiar.)
There are factions of people who say this truth is valid, and factions of people who say their truth is valid, and both cannot be true. You therefore have no truth, you have factions.
Is this all starting to sound vaguely familiar? It should, because it is a tool of the Left which is the ideology of divisiveness. Their Raison d’être on the Left is to divide people into classes of various kinds, financial, racial, and sexual, and pit those groups against each other. That is how the Left survives and thrives. It is what they do.
And if all versions of the truth, both valid and invalid must be accepted, then it follows that everything one sees is conceivably a lie, and nothing can be depended on. Even something as simple as a product review on the Internet is a nearly useless endeavor now. There are entities that are paid to do reviews, and the Internet is full of them. Granted, it becomes our job as consumers to sift through them and separate the wheat from the chaff. That is fine, because the worst that happens there is that you may spend money on an inferior product and be sentenced to use it until you can afford to replace it.
With world events and a government, the worst that can happen is that you are sentenced to live under an evil tyranny that impacts every aspect of your living existence, if that living existence isn’t prematurely ended by that same tyrannical government because you are viewed as its enemy. (Not that it would ever happen to any political group in this post 1/6/2021 world.)
I believe this has been the focus of the Left in both the Media and on the Internet. Disinformation as a formal tool has been used to great effect by militaries and tyrannies throughout history, and while disinformation is not the sole purview of the Left, they practice it as an established and polished black art far more than any other ideology or entity.
I agree completely. The concept that no truths are absolute and thus my truth is as valid as yours is a virus that has infected western civilization.
Look even at conservative Christianity. The rise of nondenominational megachurch Christianity is a post-truth movement.
Doctrine used to matter. There are many issues where things are either true or false. Today insisting on those things is “uncool.”
“How many fingers am I holding up Winston? And if I say that it is not four but three or five then how many fingers am I holding up?”
Freedom is the ability to state that 2+2=4 or that there are only 2 sexes, with a few rare biological anomalies.
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