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National Review ^ | 1996 | Robert Reilly

Posted on 09/07/2003 8:50:41 PM PDT by GrandMoM

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21 posted on 09/08/2003 3:04:25 AM PDT by expatguy
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Culture of Vice
any doubt just watch FOX TV...
22 posted on 09/08/2003 3:08:09 AM PDT by Gone_Postal
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To: GrandMoM
With decadence comes weakness.
23 posted on 09/08/2003 3:18:12 AM PDT by tkathy
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To: GrandMoM
bttt
24 posted on 09/08/2003 3:20:08 AM PDT by mitch5501 (by the grace of God,I am what I am)
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To: GrandMoM
In The Ethics, Aristotle wrote, "men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives."

Good piece. Rush Limbaugh remarked a number of times that this country has always had a few wierdos and oddballs and they were considered wierdos and oddballs by everyone else. Now they are tired of being considered wierdos and oddballs -- they want to be the new majority.

I've read about people involved with various radical movements and what struck me was that so many project their own personal problems, misfortunes, frustrations or failings on society. For example, a woman may be drawn to feminism because her father was an SOB. Instead of just accepting the fact that she had an SOB for a father, so turns on all men and society. She blames society for her personal misfortune and seeks to radically change it. Leftists have succeeded in fostering resentment, hate and the desire for revenge in many previously happy and content people.

I see liberalism simply as rationalized bad behavior -- rationalized selfishness and self-indulgence. They want to do what they want to do, they don't want anyone to make them do what they don't want to do, they want someone to give them whatever they want and take care of them when things go wrong. BWAA! BWAA! They're nothing but a bunch of adult spoiled brats. Liberals will self-righteously blubber about the poor and the oppressed, but they don't really care about them (they don't care about anyone) - their politically correct noises are just an affectation and allow them to look good to like-minded people and feel good about themselves.

25 posted on 09/08/2003 4:16:08 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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26 posted on 09/08/2003 6:00:44 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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27 posted on 09/08/2003 6:11:30 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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"7 years old....guess no one paid attention to "

That makes it all that more powerful - and distrubing.
28 posted on 09/08/2003 6:47:18 AM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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For example, a woman may be drawn to feminism because her father was an SOB. Instead of just accepting the fact that she had an SOB for a father, so turns on all men and society. She blames society for her personal misfortune and seeks to radically change it.

Andrea Dworkin must have hated her father's very soul. I made the mistake of reading her ramblings once, trying to understand what one of the leading theorists of radical feminism was trying to say. I regretted it, and concluded that Dworkin is to men as Hitler was to the Jews.

29 posted on 09/08/2003 6:49:48 AM PDT by Mackey
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That makes it all that more powerful - and distrubing.....Thanks, exactly my point!
30 posted on 09/08/2003 7:02:00 AM PDT by GrandMoM ("What is impossible with men is possible with GOD -Luke 18:27)
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"The homosexual movement's rationalization is far more widely advanced in its claims. According to Jeffrey Levi, former executive director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, “We (homosexuals)_ are no longer seeking just a right to privacy and a right to protection from wrong. We have a right - as heterosexuals have already - to see government and society affirm our lives.” Since only the act of sodomy differentiates an active homosexual from a heterosexual, homosexuals want “government and society” to affirm that sodomy is morally equivalent to the marital act. “Coming out of the closet” can only mean an assent on the level of moral principle to what would otherwise be considered morally disordered...


The homosexual community's well planned, well funded campaign has been going on for years, as documented in the following references:

The Overhauling of Straight America

The Homosexual Propaganda and Media Manipulation Game

31 posted on 09/08/2003 7:10:10 AM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: GrandMoM
In our minds we replace the reality of moral order with something more congenial to the activity we are excusing. In short, we assert that bad is good.

I can't quote exactly, but John 3 says:

"And this is their condemnation, the light has come into the world, but they preferred the darkness because their deeds were evil."

Outstanding post.

Shalom.

32 posted on 09/08/2003 7:34:00 AM PDT by ArGee (Hey, how did I get in this handcart? And why is it so hot?)
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an excerpt from the link EdReform posted

"The Homosexual Propaganda & Media Manipulation Game"

Although homosexual propaganda has been around for 50 years, the current campaign started in 1989 with a very popular book within the homosexual community called: “After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990s” by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. This very popular book within the homosexual community makes a passionate argument that homosexual activists should implement an organized propaganda campaign to change public opinion to gain public acceptance to their behavior and obtain special rights, benefits, and privileges. Their rationalization for launching such a campaign is that people who do not agree with them are “bigots, haters, or ignorants”, and therefore activists can and should justifiably employ any tactic possible, including mass deceit, lying, slander, maliciousness, intimidation, violence, etc. ....please go to link and view the 62 calculating tactics the authors Of "After the Ball" use to mutate public opinion....excellent read!!!

33 posted on 09/08/2003 7:56:55 AM PDT by GrandMoM ("What is impossible with men is possible with GOD -Luke 18:27)
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Thus, Beverly Harrison, a professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary, contends that abortion is a “positive good,” and even a “loving choice.”

While a professor of Christian ethics, she, however, is not a Christian and will be burning in hell (unless of course she gets saved before she dies)

34 posted on 09/08/2003 8:10:18 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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“positive good,” and even a “loving choice.”

....I almost got sick when I read this!!!!!!!

....how depraved this person and people who think like her are!!!

35 posted on 09/08/2003 8:46:24 AM PDT by GrandMoM ("What is impossible with men is possible with GOD -Luke 18:27)
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Bump.
36 posted on 09/08/2003 10:29:21 AM PDT by NYer (Roman Catholic and proud of it.)
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Andrea Dworkin must have hated her father's very soul. I made the mistake of reading her ramblings once, trying to understand what one of the leading theorists of radical feminism was trying to say. I regretted it, and concluded that Dworkin is to men as Hitler was to the Jews.

I know that Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem had bad fathers. Also, do you know what Andrea Dworkin looks like? To be polite, she is an excellent candidate for stomach stapling. She may hate men simply because she can't get a date. I suspect that that's true of many lesbians.

37 posted on 09/08/2003 10:40:30 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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BTTT
38 posted on 01/09/2004 6:58:36 PM PST by GrandMoM (The attitude of faith will cause you to live one day at a time, enjoying each one. 2 Cor.5:7)
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In The Ethics Aristotle wrote, “men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.” This is also true when revolutionary changes are cultural. What might these “private” reasons be, and why do they become public in the form of revolutionary changes? The answer to these questions lies in the intimate psychology of moral failure.

Revolutionary changes bump. Bumped for topicalness.

39 posted on 02/18/2004 11:35:40 AM PST by tuesday afternoon
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BTTT
40 posted on 03/13/2004 6:12:26 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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