Nietzsche
"What Nietzsche grasped that many modern conservatives, who dislike Nietzsche almost as much as Karl Marx and Hillary Clinton, don’t grasp is that what looks like decline, decadence, and decay to conservatives appears to the champions of such trends as progress and the birth of a new civilization."
Dr. Samuel Francis
"It is commonly said that the modern world is reverting to paganism, and [G.K.] Chesterton would agree, but for quite a different reason than that commonly proffered. When alarmed pietists say the world is reverting to paganism, they mean the modern person is enjoying himself too much. When Chesterton says the modern world has reverted to paganism, he means the modern person is, like the pagan, no longer able to enjoy anything. "The pagan set out, with admirable sense, to enjoy himself. By the end of his civilization he had discovered that a man cannot enjoy himself and continue to enjoy anything else." The secret sin we share with the pagans is egocentric despair. We, like they, are first sated, then satiated, then bored, then unhappy. The twenty–first century may become even more pagan than the twentieth, and if it does, it will not be because its citizenry is shamelessly happy, but for the very opposite reason: they will have reached the same end that paganism reached. "When the pagan looks at the very core of the cosmos, he is struck cold. Behind the gods, who are merely despotic, sit the fates, who are deadly. Nay, the fates are worse than deadly; they are dead.""
David W. Fagerberg
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...when you seek to find consensus between truth and lies you tarnish that splendour.
I like his writing, and I see he is on to something here, but I don't get this article.
What are the "two meanings of sex" he is talking about?
Sorry if I seem dense, I just don't quite see what he means.
The "best" responses these progressives could mutter was "So all those ridiculous programs implemented by gay organisations during the onset of AID's in the western world were really just a waste of time. We would have been far better off promoting abstinence rather than the use of condoms. This equation of secularists with condoms is quite frankly ridiculous.I know plenty of deeply religious people who don't have a problem with birth control or condoms. No doubt Steyn also endorses The Pope's view on the death penalty, the war on Iraq, his position on the Palestinians and his condemnation of laissez- faire capitalism."
(Taken from http://www.nzpundit.com/archives/009952.html#009952 )
Quite lame. Anyone care to refute him, either on here or on the link?
News?
Catholics are very used to people presuming their doctrines are simply invented. It's the implication behind every time someone cites a bible verse at us: that somehow OUR doctrines came out of thin air.