betty: Yet this allegation makes me think that the alleger has undergone some sort of strange self-lobotomy...which would be an exercise in self-reduction. (Indeed, I would argue, an exercise in self-mutilation.)
Spirited: Richard Weaver, author of “Ideas Have Consequences” describes the plight of self-lobotomized dialectical materialists and/or scientific naturalists:
“…the closer man stands to ruin, the duller grows his realization (for) the annihilation of spiritual being precedes the destruction of temple walls.” (The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, George H. Nash, pp. 30-33)
What’s left after annihilation of spiritual being but a sophistical naturalist or blood and soil man. Though spiritually dead and his conscience dead to sin his intellect remains intact but is worthless for anything but pursuit of self-gratification at any cost and his will is a force of negation.
yeah....