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 ...
I should not have laughed when I read the last line of your post “Today insisting on those things is ‘uncool’.”, but I involuntarily snorted, even as I knew EXACTLY what you meant...
I only WISH it were uncool. I could embrace that.
But instead, “insisting on those things” makes you a science denier, flat-earth enthusiast, Nazi, sexist, Luddite, holocaust denier, and, as an overarching term to cover everything...
RACIST!
And for what it is worth, I have decided that simply embracing all those Leftist terms collectively as their recognition of me as “conservative” is not such a bad thing. (hear me out!)
So, when I hear from a Leftist (or one of their many useful idiots) “You’re a science denier/flat-earth enthusiast/Nazi, sexist/Luddite/holocaust denier/RACIST!”
My mind simplifies it to the encompassing truth of what they really mean: “You’re a CONSERVATIVE!” and I take some pleasure that they don’t mistake me for one of their own!
All to often, we find ourselves responding “Hey! I’m not a science denier/flat-earth enthusiast/Nazi, sexist/Luddite/holocaust denier/RACIST! I believe...”
But at that point, they have us. We are on the defensive, which is what they want in everything from disparaging us online/in person to confronting us at the national and governmental level.
I have come to believe that playing that game is a loser for us.
so true, rlmorel. “gay”... at Starbucks a small coffee is “tall”. change the language change the culture. they are cunning linguists.
We’re not anti-science...they are...
https://patriots.win/p/12igqvVaGk/were-not-antiscience-they-are/c/
Bill Whittle: The Power and Danger of Iconography
This is a video from Bill Whittle's earlier days when I began to be aware of him, and I thought it was spot on, the Left's deliberate use of language and icons.
I would have responded "What percentage of illiterate welfare recipients vote Republican?".
Heh, I meant to say “...MISUSE of language and icons...”
We ALL deliberately “use” language and icons, but it takes a special type of Orwellian tyranny to deliberately “misuse” them.
Thanks. Familiar with Bill. Hadn’t seen that one. REALLY fascinating. I knew what Hillaryous Rotten Criminal was. Berry O Bozo i figured was better that that demon. Vote for either of them? NEVER.
EVIL people support each other. That is their chief strength.
- Solzhenitsyn
Clinton, Bush, Obama. sometime it takes time to figure this stuff out and hindsight is always 20/20.
I was one of those folks who willingly voted for Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney because the choices were so...stark, and I didn’t want to surrender my franchise.
Now, if we get a candidate like Romney or McCain in 2024, I am sitting it out regardless. I won’t do it again.
Maybe I will change my mind before then. I just don’t know.
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