Posted on 05/29/2005 4:48:25 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Once upon a time, not too awfully long ago, America was known as the ‘shining city on the hill.’ America, the most radical experiment in the history of the world, was the only nation to which people oppressed and repressed by old world systems of social classes and castes could be free of the stifling bindings engendered by those man created constraints. She was a Judao-Christian nation where God of the bible, and not an elite ruling class, was sovereign over all.
America was the land of hope, promise and opportunity, where not only all men were equal before God’s eyes, but where all human life from conception to natural death, was gifted by God with intrinsic worth. Because our Founders believed in the existence of a transcendent sovereign Creator, they declared that belief in the Declaration of Independence where it is written that our rights are endowed to us from our Creator and thus are inalienable, which means not from man. Under the aegis of the Judao-Christian worldview, Americans were able to work towards a civilization of excellence and virtue wherein natural families and their children could grow and thrive in safety and security. America was also a civilization where individual liberty could be maximized to the fullest in the absence of strangling webs of manmade laws since followers of Judao-Christianity were guided by the Golden Rule and voluntarily exercised self-control over destructive impulses for the common good of all. As Augustine said, “Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things which would hinder the advance of the common good.”
Alas, America is no longer a shining city on the hill because under the influence of militant atheism and transnational socialism fueled by Darwin’s theory of evolution, as well as Marx’s influence, she has been turning her back on God and the Judao-Christian moral principles upon which she was founded. As a result, our once decent, orderly civilization has regressed to a state of ‘almost anything goes’ permissiveness and outright barbarianism where the common good has been displaced by the demands and desires of the few. Human life is no longer sacred and is now liberally aborted away even as militant atheist bio-ethicists busily seduce Americans to accept the idea of euthanasia, under the guise of quality of life. Where before our Creator was understood to have endowed all human beings with a right to life, secular militant atheists have taken away that right and very predictably replaced it with the “right to die.” Dostoevsky predicted this would occur when he wrote,“If God is dead, then all things are permissible.” Nietzsche concurs: “God is dead…the heroic individualist is no longer bound to a traditional slave morality, but is creating his own.”
Nietzschean secular humanists, socialists, and militant atheists who call themselves ‘free thinkers’ are shaping our culture and politics, and what they are determined to create is an atheistic America. By definition, free thinkers are people who reject authority and religion in favor of what they refer to as “rational inquiry and speculation based upon science.” But they have elevated science to a philosophy (even a religion) and what they call reason is nothing but the constantly changing fickle whims that arise from unbounded self-idolization, selfish desires, and wishful thinking. In this way, as in so many other ways, free thinkers have not risen one inch above their ancient pagan ancestors. The free thinkers sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court who have made highhanded rulings based on world law rather than on American law provide a good example of capricious decision making sans fixed moral ethics.
Richard Dawkins is one of the free thinkers ‘leading lights,’ and in an ambiguous way, he alluded to whom he believes should be the ultimate source of morality in his book When Religion Steps on Science’s Turf. He wrote, ‘No civilized person uses Scripture as ultimate authority for moral reasoning.” He qualified this just a bit, by saying that there is an alternate source: “That alternate source seems to be some kind of liberal consensus of decency and natural justice that changes over historical time, frequently under the influence of secular reformists. Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like bedrock. In practice we more or less ignore Scripture, quoting it when it supports our liberal consensus, quietly forgetting it when it doesn’t. And wherever that liberal consensus comes from, it is available to us all.”
What Dawkins is saying, in a vaguely worded manner, is that when it behooves people like him to pretend to believe Scripture, they will do so, but that in reality the real source of moral authority is people like himself: “intellectually superior” human animals.
Dawkins’ smug claim shines a light on the incoherency and self-contradictory nature of scientific naturalism. By declaring himself and those like him to be the source of moral authority, he exempts himself and his cohorts from the framework they prescribe for everyone else, implying that human beings are worthless matter operating without reason or purpose, directed by (merely) natural forces. Dawkins is obviously stating that he is a superior being capable of rational thought, of free consideration, of formulating theories, of recognizing objective truth, and of being morally discerning. This places him and his fellow scientists outside and above the mindless material causes which supposedly order of the rest of us. But intelligence and ideas are not the result of mindless, non-directed particles crashing into each other inside our brains. To believe so is irrational.
I found a further example of the incoherent and contradictory reasoning of Dawkins “free thinking,” on a secular humanist forum where they had a “frequently asked questions” section. A questioner reverently asked Dawkins if evolution has a purpose. Dawkins responded emphatically, “[it] has nothing to do with survival of the species. If anything it is the passing of genes. Really there is NO purpose...It is simply that those genes that DO survive are the ones we see…There is no higher purpose…The only higher purposes in the universe are to be found in evolved brains such as our own when we have conscious purpose to achieve…our brains are so accustomed to this that they falsely…ascribe purpose where it doesn’t exist.”
Did you catch that clumsy verbal sleight of hand? Notice the initial absence of purpose. Then, almost immediately there is a higher purpose so long as it’s for “evolved brains such as our own” that seek to “achieve a purpose.” Then to escape from the mess of contradictions has he created, he does what all morally defective narcissists do… he creates another incoherent contrivance. In effect, Dawkins says that when the brain is consciously trying to achieve a purpose, it’s actually fooling itself into believing it is achieving a purpose that it knows nothing about, since purpose has never existed in the first place. This web-weaver of incoherency is a leading light of academia?
Richard Lewontin, a Harvard geneticist, is another secular human leading light. Perhaps because he felt secure in speechifying before some of his fellow cohorts, he decided to be forthcoming with the truth, when he declared “many scientific theories are no more than unsubstantiated just-so stories…in the struggle between science and the supernatural [we] take the side of science because we have a prior commitment to materialism.”
In other words, hatred towards God and Christian-Judao morality is not premised upon facts but on cobbled together contrivances. Lewontin audaciously attests to this when he startlingly admits, “we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanation.”
So, the science of secular humanism is quackery. Its authority is nothing but a web of ideologically contrived deceptions presided over by snake-oil salesmen pretending to be scientists.
These hateful, narcissistic frauds apparently believe that along with Hitler, Mao, Marx, Stalin, and Lenin, they, instead of mankind’s Creator, are capable of being the earthly judge of right and wrong. Two of the wrongs according to Dawkins are religion, which he terms an intellectual virus, and parents having the right to instruct their children in religious faith. Dawkins declares, “Society, for no reason that I can discern, accepts that parents must have an automatic right to bring their children up with particular religious opinions and can withdraw them from say, biology classes that teach evolution.”
It isn’t enough that these self-worshipping tyrants have reduced all Americans, excluding themselves, to nothing but worthless matter with no reason or purpose to exist. Nor is it enough for them that by unleashing the destructive effects of their hell-born ideology upon America they have managed to bring her to the edge of the abyss. No, these devils will not be satisfied until they have managed to leech every last drop of good from America and have forced every American to become as miserable and hateful as they themselves are.
Two astute statesmen from our past left these words of wisdom for us. The first, Thomas Jefferson, warned us, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the Gift of God?” The second, William Penn, cautioned soberly, “If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.”
Let us choose wisely: choose God.
Thank you so very much. Lets hope people's eyes are opened before it is too late, if it isn't already.
LOL. Sound familiar?
As for me and my housejold they shall follow the Lord!
Yes, we must obey the morality delivered to us in the word of god.
That means you must keep Kosher, now!
No pork for you! God tells us in His word that it's wrong to eat pork.
And don't forget to sing loudly:
"Happy the man who shall repay you the evil you have done us! Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!" (Psalm 137:8-9).
Woooo whoooo!!!
You can't be serious, evolution and Darwin are not even mentioned in the article that I noticed. It would seem you are the extremist here my friend.
Richard Lewontin was a professor of mine. A Marxist, but a nice guy. We were assigned the project of writing a paper as to whether or not there was a correlation between IQ and race.
(“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the Gift of God?” The second, William Penn, cautioned soberly, “If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.”)
Suffering the tyranny of the minority ... judges, gays, EPA, ACLU, turncoat senators, pacifists, anti-war, pro abortion, etc, etc, etc,
I take that back, evolution and Darwin are mentioned exactly once but in a peripheral way. This article is not about science, it's about philosophy.
Are you kidding? The author states that America is threatened by "militant atheism and transnational socialism fueled by Darwin’s theory of evolution".
I'm familiar with Lewontin, obviously you are more so.
Have a good weekend. JW
Same to you. Pieces like the above annoy me because well, they are so Manichean and extreme, and broad brush. I don't like grand unified theories. But then you already knew that would be my take. :)
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No.
The author states that America is threatened by "militant atheism and transnational socialism fueled by Darwin’s theory of evolution".
Right, I saw that on my second reading. I don't see that necessarily as an attack on the Theory or Darwin but as an attack on those who erroneously use Darwin and the TOE to their own ends.
The absence of any scientific discussion at all would seem buttress that opinion, no?
Acourse!
Who labels everything secular as being evil or without morals?
A seemingly good post. Bookmarking for later!
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