Spirited to Bro: “Now if it was true that your church—and you— goes by what God’s Revelation to man says then your pride would not be so offended by “Falling Stars...” that you have repeatedly tried to undermine the veracity of the author and joined with other offended posters in having the essay removed to the religion forum.”
Bro the sophist responds: Well, thank you! tacticalogic, at last the truth comes out! They can’t stomach spirited irish on the religion forum — she’s been banished! Or should I say shunned!
Spirited: Only the painfully twisted, upside-down, self-deluded reasoning of a sophist would see vindication of ‘self’ in those remarks.
The conscience of the sophist is polluted and depraved, and a depraved conscience is the most destructive force in political, legal, social, economic, and cultural life. This is because though the intellect remains intact, reason is warped and inverted, thus useless for pursuit of the good, the just and the true. In short, guided by a depraved conscience, reason is used in pursuit of the preservation of self-image at any cost. This is sophistry.
In a penetrating analysis of sophistry, J. Budziszewski observes that the sophists’ view of reality is paradoxical because it ultimately denies reality. Sophists are shock troopers of evil says Budziszewski, and according to their satanically-inverted view of reality:
“Man is the measure of all things, but man has no fixed nature. Man measures all things by his words, but words have no fixed meanings. Language is not an instrument for finding truth, but for changing it. Those who can master it, master all. It is a good creed for rogues, and commends itself to tyrants in every age.” (What We Can’t Not Know, Budziszewski, p. 167)
Sophistry is the religion of America’s left-right Ruling Class and legions of like-minded individuals. Sophistry says autonomous man is a free-thinker, thus the maker of his own truth and morality even though sophistry denies the reality of both truth and morality. It says depraved man
can unmake and then remake himself. Thus man is free to divinize himself as in days of old. Males can be females and females can now be males, or they can be androgynous, that is, transgender.
Sophistry’s’ favorite Scripture is “judge not.” The only judgment is the judgment against moral judgment. The only sins are the ideas that sin and immutable truth exists. The only truth is the idea that truth does not exist. Evil is the idea that evil exists. The greatest evil of all however, is to dissent against sophists.
Sophists are braggarts who love to boast of their scientifically-informed reason, yet reason is actually escape from reason. By way of unreason, arrogant sophists claim that God is dead, or just a jump-starter for evolution, His Revelation a myth, and evolutionary theory absolutely true, but sophistry also says that words have no fixed meaning. There is no truth in sophistry. Therefore,
God is not dead but rather evolutionary theory is, for as it must begin with the spontaneous generation of something from nothing, then Darwinism is also nothing. This means that Godless evolutionary theory is as meaningless as
spontaneous generation and the much-vaunted reason of sophists.
Sophistry is all the rage in contemporary America, even though it prefers longer, more intellectual sounding names to dupe the gullible. Thus for example, it calls itself postmodernism, empiricism, naturalism, epistemological relativism, anti-foundationalism, pragmatism, situational ethics, pluralism, multiculturalism, interfaith, evolutionary humanism, trans-humanism, positivism, rationalism, and progressivism.
Thank you for all your informative, engaging posts, dear spirited irish!
Who just tried to take control of that list of terms and re-define them all as "sophistry"?
Despite your gaggle of sycophants here, it's pretty obvious to me that yours is the polluted and depraved conscience of a committed sophist, intent on destroying all philosophical connections between your personal theology and any other discipline -- i.e., science.
And despite your gaggle of sycophants here, the apparent fact -- revealed only by you -- that the Free Republic religious community cannot tolerate your nonsense, tells me there is a huge group of others who share my feelings.
On this non-religious thread, the flaws in your logic & intent should be readily apparent: 1) you consistently lump together both the guilty (i.e., Marxists) and the innocent (anyone else who disagrees with you), and 2) You falsely accuse the innocent of whatever sin you yourself fervently practice. 3) You consistently fail to answer simple questions about your own assertions.
These practices fail to work on non-religious forums, just as they do on religious ones.
Got to run, out of time, more later...
Think about it, FRiend.