Posted on 09/03/2009 4:52:50 AM PDT by spirited irish
Here is the link to a trailer of Demographic Winter, pt. 2: http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html
snip: It certainly appears that tl would LIKE it to be about rejecting the authority of the traditional Church
Spirited: Essentially, the Gnostic disposition is about rebellion against all authority, norms, standards, and of course, against created being, hence it is present in every age and awaiting opportunity to ‘break out,’ so to speak.
Dostoevsky pointed out that Gnostics are by nature, the most rebellious due to their enormously powerful compulsions of Pride....Pride of Mind, Pride of Eye, Pride of Flesh. In this light, TL’s continuous inversion of truth, his doublespeak, and his obsessiveness with regard to the Church (authority figure) comes into focus.
I read it, and I put it into the context of the posts before it.
You want to give the people who share your particular religious beliefs credit for having established all the "good" governments. First you associate them with a generic "Judaeo-Christian worldview", then you pick a handful of the general teachings of that that religion that would be codified by any government in a civilized society, and present that as evidence.
I understand the game, I just won't waste my time playing it.
In your dealings with atheists like Old Spice (in the Agenda 21 thread), there is a great deal of intellectual ammunition in this essay. If you’ve already been pinged to this essay, please accept my apology.
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