Posted on 03/30/2016 3:40:25 PM PDT by NYer
Sometimes it's hard to love those who hate you. But it's even more difficult to love those who refuse to see reason or to recognize their own errors, self-contradictions, mistakes and hysteria.
Misology is the irrational and intractable hatred of logic and reason. It's a deep-seated, delusional self-assurance that one is right not only despite logic, scholarship and scientific and historical reality but even despite one's own assertions. Misological people will demand they are right even after they've contradicted themselves thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are axiomatically and patently wrong. And it's never a pleasant conversation with them. Rather, it's a hormonally-fueled tirade filled with threats, invective and vulgarities and as often as not, ends in violence. It's perfectly devoid of reason. Logic means nothing to these individuals. They are anti-logic.
On September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI presented his Regensburg lecture―probably the most epoch-defining and paradigm-shifting speech in recent memory.
But, like Cassandra before him, he was condemned to have his truth ignored.
In an effort to refocus Catholic-Muslim dialogue that had degenerated into "Show-n-Tell" cultural exchanges at a pleasant Sunday luncheon, Pope Benedict tried to lay bare the fundamental difference between the Judeo-Christian God and belief and, basically, everyone else.
Benedict didn’t present anything earthshaking, even though Muslims around the world exploded at the perceived, nonexistent affront egged on by a secular, anti-Catholic media. In his Regensburg speech, the Pope distilled the basic, irreconcilable difference between us (Judeo-Christians) and "them" (everyone else.) He said that we understand God as essentially Logos (i.e., Divine Reason Who is the Word of God Himself) while Muslims saw their Allah as Voluntas. (i.e., Caprice). The former facilitates the growth of civilization, human rights, true freedom and an appreciation of reason. The latter leads only to violence, arbitrariness, dysfunction, oppression, misology and the decline of civilization.
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This is exceptionally poor theology more reminiscent of a petulant kindergartener's babbling rather than that of an erudite and educated teacher of said kindergartens. Manicheans and their red-haired, left-handed, third cousins, the Albigensians, believed nonsense like this. However, as every Jew and Christian knows, Satan is incapable of creating anything other than lies and illusions. He is the Father of Lies and a murderer as his goal is to destroy the truth. (John 8:44)
Catholic ping!
Benedict XVI will always be a personal hero, I believe he was ‘a voice in the wilderness’ and as such, he was almost unanimously unheeded...
800 years later, the frothing hatred continues against the Cathars. Physical extermination wasn't enough, apparently.
Paranoia will destroya.
He is missed more every day.
But first, it will annoya.
They seem to be pretty quiet when the Pope says dogs go to heaven, though. Like having a point to it all after all, would blow their game to smithereens.
And as a cwazy evangelical, I think the Pope might be right about the dogs. Of course there needs to be a cat heaven too, and a mouse heaven, and....
But then, my cats, ever perverse, are reminding me of the scripture “Outside are the dogs.” I guess not much feline love lost on the canines huh.
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