“Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”
— British Trotskyite John Rees at the Cairo Anti-War Conference, April 2007
Spirited: What do all of the above hold in common?
In part:
1. A dehumanized view of man. A must-hold view for the doing of evil to ‘others.’
2. Adherence to some variant of evolutionary theory, for it conveniantly and automatically dehumanizes ‘others’ while allowing it’s resentment-charged adepts—the so-called highly evolved beings-—to imagine themselves as the neo-Brahmanic caste, godmen, supermen, ‘the enlightened ones,’ etc.
3. By extension of the above, a lust for power fueled by hatred and an overwhelming sense of entitlement harnessed to a willingness to lie, cheat, steal, slander, murder, etc. to get it.
4. Narcissism and diabolical narcissism, also called sociopathy and psychopathy
excellent post!
”Some variant of evolutionary theory,” indeed. As a Christian, I have no problem with scientific theories. They serve a vital function. As an outgrowth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, armed with the same rigorous tools of intellectual inquiry that fueled its philosophy and religious disciplines, the fact-finding philosophy of the Scientific Method has proved to be one of the happiest inspirations of Western Civilization. As a powerful liberating force, it ranks right up near “All men are created equal . . .”
Now, what I find more than passing strange is that, of all the laws and theories discovered and developed by Science, it is only the Theory of Evolution that has inspired so many eminent scientists to conclude that; 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after death exists; 3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists; 4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and 5) human free will is nonexistent. And, remarkably, all this in blatant defiance of their own rules of scientific methodology.
Then, when Christians rise in protest against this flagrant violation of Science’s own cannons of comportment, we are assailed by frenzied extremists, who accuse us being everything but great humanitarians.
"3. By extension of the above, a lust for power fueled by hatred and an overwhelming sense of entitlement harnessed to a willingness to lie, cheat, steal, slander, murder, etc. to get it."
And why should they not, when they are told by their Darwinian Mullahs that human beings are nothing but a random collection of molecules, propelled by weak electrical charges, and are of no moral significance.
Thanks for the beep, Spirited. Good stuff.