Posted on 01/05/2003 10:54:52 PM PST by RichardMoore
Ok, it's been a while since I last checked in to this place as a vanity expert but I just wanted to drop this plum in your laps. I will as usual credit Chesterton with the original thought here and take the road of messenger, although the message may be somewhat garbled. So 'll keep it short and sweet and suggest that you check out chesterton.org for more on the topic of education and anything else actually
Modern education is flawed. But as products of that education we have extreme difficulty in recognising that simple fact. There is a backwash of anti-christian thought in all public education and most private education and that is directly attributable to the inclusion of Darwin, Marx and Freud.
These three gods of the modern world are not only false but they are atheistic. They wouldn't even believe in themselves as whole-heartedly as we moderns do today. Their anti-christian foundations have been taught with such unquestioned regularity that the only thing left for us to do today is to seek to be un-educated or perhaps deprogramed. WE accept without question that Birth Control(which is no birth and no control) divorce(which is polygamy) and monopolistic commerce(which would be considered criminal in a sane society) are all inevitable products of progress(our main article of modern faith) Darwin teaches us to applaud the strongest and fiercest commpetitor and to seek to create heaven on Earth; while Marx points out that everything is economics and the capitalists don't have to convince us that we are doing our part for the greater good. And Freud has given us SEX as the ultimate commercial enterprise and selling gimick.
As a final note I would like to suggest that these three monsters emerged from the folks who gave us the "Enlightenment" and the Protestant Reformation. I realize that it is modern tolerant dogma to view all "progress" as good but the world has gained nothing by turning it's back on Catholicism. And as Chesterton once said,"The Church keeps appearing to pass away; and then miraculously it rises from the dead." One look at John Paul II and what he has done in the face of all the troubles in the Church and the world and you can begin to see the staying power and reality of a sacremental view of the world.
There will always be a clash between the striving for Knowledge and the striving for Belief. People on both sides of the conflict have caused great harm to humanity. In recent history the greatest harm has come from the eastern world, which has not yet grasped the concept of Rule Of Law (secularized).
In the history of civilization, every society that has chosen religious rule over Rule of Law has seen Rule of Terror. And every society that suppresses religious belief has also seen Rule of Terror.
Those moderates who hold their beliefs as their own choose the secularized Rule Of Law to ensure that their freedom is protected.
True enough, but I would like to offer a bit of defense on Freud's behalf for the bolded area of your quote. Freud created the Elektra Complex as a result of his work with young women from Vienna who claimed that their father's raped them from a very young age. He would later speculate that his therapy with them and his thoughts that this complex might be at work was influenced by the fact that he was on the payroll of their fathers and he sublimated his desire to bite the hand that fed him. Irresponsible? Definately, but since he was one of very few doing that type of work at the time, no peer review of his work would have been available nor could he have deffered these young women to other therapists.
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