Posted on 03/28/2017 3:58:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
It’s been a long while since I perused TIME, either online or in print.
Years ago, the weekly ceased being an interesting news magazine and evolved into a caricature of fashionable left-wing thought. It is no longer required reading.
However, TIME managed to work its way back into national consciousness this week with its colorful cover asking, “Is Truth Dead?” The irony of TIME’s editors raising that question probably never dawned on them.
The immediate object is to remind people of TIME’s iconic April 8, 1966 cover from 51 years ago that asked “Is God Dead?” The secondary goal is to entice people into reading an attack on President Trump, plus the usual assortment of bizarre, culture-wrenching articles.
The Ideas section, for instance, offers a screed by Jacob Tobia entitled, “Why All Bathrooms Should Be Gender Neutral.”
Sporting bright red lipstick, earrings and a five-o’clock shadow, the confused Mr. Tobia says he’s not comfortable in either men’s or women’s restrooms and wants to abolish them. His ultimate aim:
“Gender-neutral restrooms have the potential to fundamentally transform the way that we think about gender equality. Gender-segregated restrooms are one of the last absolute gender divides in our society, and they reinforce from a very early age the idea that women and men are fundamentally different.”
Actually, that’s been self-evident since the dawn of time and reinforced in the Bible, by all major religions and by the surging Hallmark Channel. For TIME to devote space to what amounts to insanity shows why more and more people distrust the “legacy media.”
In the magazine’s original 1966 shock cover edition, religion editor John T. Elson’s lead article, “Toward a Hidden God,” pondered the nation’s plunge into cultural chaos and theocratic doubt.
He had a point. In the Sixties everything was up for grabs and any and all authority was considered illegitimate. Drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll trumped everything else, at least for affluent Baby Boomers.
Among other things, the riotous decade birthed today’s unhinged progressives and transformed a political party into a seething animal now wandering in the wilderness licking its wounds and vowing vengeance. The party’s house organs like TIME brim with barely disguised hate for Mr. Trump. Okay, it’s not disguised at all.
Fifty-one years ago, TIME was far more nuanced in its liberalism, the shocking cover declaration notwithstanding. Pro-God theologians were featured prominently in the article. On the other side, the “God Is Dead” crowd consisted of a few highly placed heretics. Mr. Elson noted that the latter were following in the footsteps of nihilist philosopher Frederick Nietzsche, who had pronounced the death of God in his book The Gay Science (or The Joyful Wisdom) in 1882.
The atheist philosopher eventually died at age 55 in an asylum in Switzerland, driven mad by what was thought to be syphilis for years but may in fact have been a brain tumor. In any event, Mr. Nietzsche went to his reward, a bonus of which was finding out most certainly whether his theory about God being dead was valid.
“Nietzsche's thesis was that striving, self-centered man had killed God…,” Mr. Elson wrote in 1966. “The current death-of-God group believes that God is indeed absolutely dead, but proposes to carry on and write a theology without theos, without God.”
Good luck. Writing a theology without God is like trying to hold the Indianapolis 500 without cars or a diving contest in a pool without water.
Last year, in a TIME article “Is God Dead? At 50,” dated April 8, Lily Rothman opined that the rise of the questioning of God’s existence coincided with the end of World War II, when atrocities such as the Holocaust made people ponder why God permits evil.
She also cited “the rise of pluralism and diversity” in America and called the civil rights revolution “part of the death of God movement,” neglecting to mention that it was led by Christian ministers, the most famous being the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In recent years, TIME has had company in downplaying America’s religious heritage and publicizing surveys indicating that belief in God is waning.
Newsweek magazine ran a special report in April 2009 entitled, “The End of Christian America.” With red letters on a black background like TIME’s famous cover, the magazine proclaimed "The Decline and Fall of Christian America."
The article by Jon Meacham dutifully quoted a prominent Southern Baptist leader who lamented the sharp rise in secularism and the dangers of a “post-Christian America.”
Meacham summarized by saying, “This is not to say that the Christian God is dead, but that he is less of a force in American politics and culture than at any other time in recent memory.”
Maybe so, but times change. Newsweek ceased its print edition on Dec. 31, 2012.
Last November, an evangelical and Catholic tidal wave put Republicans in charge of the White House, both houses of Congress and a majority of statehouses across America.
No wonder the “legacy media” hope and pray for a rapid increase in unbelievers.
“Gender-neutral restrooms have the potential to fundamentally transform the way that we think about gender equality”
Yup. I knew that they were doing this to change our thoughts and minds.
Won’t work with me.
Shame on you. You should visit your dentist 2X/year.
Take care of your teeth.
Is truth dead?
Well, it all depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
Boycott Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN-HBO
Defund the Beast
When I was a kid Time magazine always had a picture of a hot chick in a miniskirt somewhere in the middle that forced me to page the whole thing.
Remember those silly days when we were young and some of us actually considered journalists “educated”?
The thought of those jokers trying (without success) to convince us that they are even grade school level makes one’s brain hurt.
Go back to what you do best, journalists.....”Do you want to supersize that?”
Always remember that a good garbage man/plumber/electrician will provide you much more value and service than a platoon of journalists.
And that a trade school degree represents much more intellect and hard work than the vast majority of those marshmallow jokes out there.
IS truth dead? It depends on what “is” is.
They are fundamentally different, moron...
But it will be for the 3 year olds who see men kissing men and our “culture” elevating “two mommies”.They will grow up like the little boys in Afghani harems, to think it is “normal” and it will “feel” “good to do what is modeled to them. They will learn (embed the emotions) that males and females are interchangeable—like drones-—no identity, no Objective Truth in Nature. No Reality, no Truth (God)-—so EVERYTHING is “fine” if it “feels right” (normalized in childhood).
It is ALL Mind Constrol- (removal from Natural Law/our Constitution and Rule of Law (God’s Laws)—to destroy Logic and Reason of children, remove them from the Natural family and put them into group indoctrination systems, artificial systems so they can be warped, so that Natural Law Theory (that which created the Age of Reason) can be removed from their little minds-—so that their emotions (and they can’t reason yet) will be embedded with “two mommies” and the idea that having no “daddy” is “good”. They will be incapable of understanding Natural Laws (male/female paradigm of 8000 years).
These irrational embedded emotions—posited by screens/tvs/ movies will destroy rationality in children-—unlike anytime in history.
It is the Fichte wet-dream where Free Will and autonomy and individualism can be utterly destroyed for socialism (group-”think” only) where all “ideas” will be programmed from cradle to grave.
The next step is the “chipped” child——so that all memories can be erased that are like Davy Crockett’s so that the worldview in human beings-—that which led to America and the Age of Reason, can totally be eliminated like in 1984.
All this has been planned in the 1800s with Fichte and Wundt and the God is Dead crowd. Not Nietzsche though, who recognized the evil of killing off God and not supplanting a “Value” system. As Dostoevsky noted, “Without God, EVERYTHING is permissible”. And that is WHY the Marxist Revolution-—to kill the Christian Worldview so that sodomy, pederasty, incest, etc. (all their behaviors and desires since Godwin) could be practiced in the open....pederasty, child-sacrifice, torture, cannibalism, boy rape and killing on the altar of Ba’al has ALWAYS been the Endgame (like the spirit cooking crew in the White House—pedogate).
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
True and always will be.
As far as I am concerned, and there are some historians who will agree, plumbers have made modern society possible.
Modern cities can do without a lot of things, but plumbing is not one of them.
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