[mojito]

Another fine essay by one of the finest conservative philosophers.

[geologist]

While they denigrate God ...

they do proclaim that each of us is a god and has the powers of God ... if we only believe we do. Thus, do anything one desires to do anytime they want to ...

“Do it” ... is the Nike advertisement, isn't it?

[Woebama]

I was thinking some similar thoughts this morning. Zeitgeist. It’s in the air.

One thought . . . the ancient pagans had their household and cultures gods . . . and when they stepped away from them there was in the Platonic philosophies an idea of an immutable truth, eternal forms, that is ignored by the modern relativists, sophists and hedonists. I won’t give them the dignity of calling them pagans. Too many noble pagans.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Social Darwinism is a bit different from classical humanism.
It has very little to do with placing value on human beings.

[DeweyCA]

FTA: "I never thought, when I finally put the old humanism behind me, that I would ever feel nostalgia over its loss. But now I recognize that it was not only noble in itself, but was also a serious attempt to retain the belief in nobility without the theological vision on which that belief had once depended."

It's the old story of the "cut flower" effect. When you cut morality off from its root, religion, eventually what you will have left is just an ugly flower. Old humanism lived on a Christian memory. That memory is quickly fading and we are now being left with the ugly results. Humanism, based on atheistic evolution, can't justify good morality. Natural Law and our conscience tell us that there is right and wrong, but the philosophy of atheistic humanism can't give morality a necessary foundation. It was a good article.

[DeweyCA]

FTA: "I never thought, when I finally put the old humanism behind me, that I would ever feel nostalgia over its loss. But now I recognize that it was not only noble in itself, but was also a serious attempt to retain the belief in nobility without the theological vision on which that belief had once depended."

It's the old story of the "cut flower" effect. When you cut morality off from its root, religion, eventually what you will have left is just an ugly flower. Old humanism lived on a Christian memory. That memory is quickly fading and we are now being left with the ugly results. Humanism, based on atheistic evolution, can't justify good morality. Natural Law and our conscience tell us that there is right and wrong, but the philosophy of atheistic humanism can't give morality a necessary foundation. It was a good article.

[Liz]

THE OBAMA GOVERNMENT CREED

1. Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for all of government’s failures. Government’s duty is to A) cause victims, B) play victim, C) commiserate over victims, or D) create new classes of victims to bleed over.

2. We expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, and the courts to bail government out of every failure.

3. It’s government’s duty to treat taxpayers kinda like raising mushrooms-—keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.

4. Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity.

5. The traditional family is archaic and constricting, with no redeeming value. Government must change all that. Homosexuality, transgenderism, group sex, child sex and bestiality are constitutionally-protected lifestyles.

6. Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem, no matter the cost.

7. Those who disagree are racists; everybody knows people can’t make it on their own without big-buck government projects.

8. The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment.

9. The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution.

10. Feeling good about ourselves is paramount.