Posted on 09/09/2016 10:09:17 AM PDT by detective
Ethicist David Gushees evolve-or-else warning to religious conservatives about their inevitable clash of orthodoxies with progressives is a sober reminder of the question over what variety of liberalism they will face in the days ahead.
Will a reflexively intolerant progressivism prevail, or is it possible that goodwill, liberal pluralism can frame what happens in American public life as homosexuality and transgenderism become mainstreamed? Like The American Conservatives Rod Dreher, who has been an online hero documenting the pace of cultural change around American sexual mores, I am pessimistic at the prospect that liberal pluralism will win the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Christianity is the only rational “faith” in the history of mankind. It created the Age of Reason and Modern Science and our “Justice” (virtue) System and made Good and Evil based on Reason and Logic and the God’s Design of Nature.
Marxists have to destroy the ability to be rational-—so people will be “happy slaves” of the few megalomaniacs.
All other “faiths” are irrational (some more than others), and removed from Natural Law Theory (Objective Truth—the Laws of Nature and nature’s Laws). Christianity is based on Reality—History. All other religions are completely irrational if not based on Natural Law (Ayn Rand believed in Natural Law, if not God). Islam and Marxism throw out Natural Law (Truth/Laws of Nature so they can create a “utopian’ culture devoid of individualism (identity/natural instincts-—they condition children to be devoid of Reason and Logic).
When you throw out Christian Worldview-—it is like Dostoevsky stated—everything is permissible....Up will be Down, Slavery will be Freedom, boys will be girls.......absolute irrationality (insanity actually). Mob (Democracies) always are irrational and why Hitler needed his mob of Jackboots-—people who ALWAYS take orders and NEVER “think” for themselves. They were programmed “bots” all their lives in the Prussian system of mass indoctrination (like our “skools”).
They want a system like ancient Egyptian culture where Good and Evil is relative and human beings are stripped of identity and individualism and all instincts of survival, or thinking for self, for a “collective” hellhole of slavery to a few elite megalomaniacs (who all want access to the children (their minds and bodies so they can make them into slaves for the future and for their children).
The Left is a Marxist movement to destroy the Christian Worldview in ALL people and wipe the Theology off the face of the earth so they can return to cultures of serfdom/slavery, pederasty, incest, etc.—destroy all biological connections so children can never mature (think coherently to understand Laws of Nature). They will treat us like cattle—herds they can completely control and cull when they want.
Some people choose Hell.
The leave-God-out-of-our-platform Democratic Party is not a fringe.
Praise the lord, pass the ammo.
Fringe?
And what they really are is a murderous bunch of anti-Christian psychopaths.”
While the article calls these people the fringe I don't believe that this is true.
I have not heard a single member of the Democrat Party, the Obama administration or the media denounce these people.
These people are expressing the positions of the people currently in power.
And they do hate Christians.
You are right.
Christians have been the only successful opponents of evil and totalitarianism.
Pope John Paul II and Solidarity brought down the evil empire of soviet Communism.
“The leave-God-out-of-our-platform Democratic Party is not a fringe.”
I agree. See post 27.
“Fringe?”
I agree. See post 27.
Uh, no.
"Liberal pluralism" was merely a tool, a device, to subvert the majority, and it worked.
No need for it any more.
They can't.
Hillary's senior thesis was titled, "There is Only the Fight". The pursuit of revolution, deconstruction, and perversion cannot stop, because the pursuit is what gives meaning to their existence.
At some point, of course, the revolution consumes its children and becomes a Stalinist dictatorship (if you're lucky) or a Pol Pot genocidal regime (if you're not) - but that's how the story ends, without fail.
You’re right, the Left can’t stop themselves, but God can.
I’m reminded of 2 Thessalonians: “And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way” (2 Thess 2:6-7).
The Holy Spirit who is in and around God’s people, the Church, is the force restraining the deadly spirit of antichrist which is the driving force of Islamic Supremacy, the DNC and Hillary, and the Left in general. I believe we’re in for a few decades of revival of freedom in America and around the world so Gd can bring in one last ingathering of souls. But after that, we, the Church will be taken up along with the Holy Spirit and then NOTHING will stop the Left.
Meanwhile some conservatives are begging for homosexual votes and condemning moslems for "homophobia" (and would probably condemn Black and Hispanic chrstians if they heard of an incident they could seize on), while radical "gays" attack (unfortunately) homo-friendly Israel and stand in solidarity with the "homophobic" PLO.
There are homophiles and homophobes on both sides of the spectrum (unfortunately). The slur of "homophobia" among liberals is therefore meaningless. The whole struggle appears to be not between religious ideologies but between two separate camps who will seize any excuse to attack the other.
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