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To: Unam Sanctam
The problem these folks have is that they are delusional. It is very hard to be effective when you live in a fantasy world.

I say that in all seriousness.

14 posted on 06/01/2005 12:03:42 PM PDT by Pete
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To: Pete
I tend to agree, these people have a very tenuous connection with reality. I just finished Byron York's book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy in which he explained how this bunch evolved. Short version: They live in a liberal echo chamber. Within the cozy confines of Hollywood, New York City, college campuses and such places, they only talk to fellow liberals and thus manage to convince themselves that everyone agrees with their twisted world view.
21 posted on 06/01/2005 12:13:43 PM PDT by RebelBanker (To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
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To: Pete
The problem these folks have is that they are delusional. It is very hard to be effective when you live in a fantasy world.

Pantheons of fantasy are their medium of infinitization...

New Age induces a benevolent relaxation that may be disabling in the face of aggression. In a world of terrorism, New Agers can only take to the hills and leave their scriptures in jars at Esalen.

(Camille Paglia, Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s, http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults00.htm)

Plato’s Euthyphro is a great illustration. Socrates advances the argument to Euthyphro that, piety to the gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. Socrates exposed the pagan esoteric sophistry.

Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins where transfiguration is from pantheons of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.

Likewise, morals are such a construction of idols used by the Left as a rationale for them to demand compliance to their wishes in politics, which most often are a skewed mess of fallacies in logic. "Morals" are a deceptive replacement for the "avoidance of sin." If a person believes in God, it is the conviction of the Holy Spirit that guides them, not the idolatrous vanities of conceited morality constructed by others.

A greater number of "atheists" and "pagans" adopt the same hackneyed tenets of a false Judaic-Christian ideal (golden calf). They also subscribe to the Judaic fetishism of "sin," but will fight to their death in denial of it. Most of them are so wrapped up in their own polemics that they have become nothing more than pathetic anti-Christians with the same false hypocritical philosophy (example: NCC involvement at this conference). They just slap a new label on it hoping nobody will notice - - they replace the idea of "avoiding sin" with "morals."

Is dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality driving ersatz secularists and religious heretics to seek connection with something Eternal through a Universal Truth by constructing an idol out of their own vanity or conceit they label as morality?

109 posted on 06/02/2005 5:25:31 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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