Here's where we part company. We pretty much agree on the evils that beset America, and the abandonment of reason produced them all. What is faith, other than pretending something is true when your reason tells you it isn't?
Religion and faith produced the Sermon on the Mount, and that produced Marx. Marx is nothing but Christian self-effacement without the theology. "The meek shall inherit the Earth," "He who is last shall be first," "Be like the lilies of the field; they neither sew nor spin," "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"--it's all the same kind of worship of neediness.
Freedom can't be sustained on the basis of faith, religion, and need-worship.
Trump's rise and his hawking a book of which he has never read nor conducts himself by seems to be a sign of the decline of religion rather than a reawakening. Senator Warnock and Justice Barrett might be examples of a reawakening but it probably requires some squinting.
Here's where we part company. We pretty much agree on the evils that beset America, and the abandonment of reason produced them all. What is faith, other than pretending something is true when your reason tells you it isn't?
Religion and faith produced the Sermon on the Mount, and that produced Marx. Marx is nothing but Christian self-effacement without the theology. "The meek shall inherit the Earth," "He who is last shall be first," "Be like the lilies of the field; they neither sew nor spin," "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"--it's all the same kind of worship of neediness.
Freedom can't be sustained on the basis of faith, religion, and need-worship.
Merry Xmas.
The song "Amazing Grace" and its history did pretty well in sustaining freedom if you ask me.
Amen!
Even the Devil quotes scripture!
Trump's rise and his hawking a book of which he has never read nor conducts himself by seems to be a sign of the decline of religion rather than a reawakening. Senator Warnock and Justice Barrett might be examples of a reawakening but it probably requires some squinting.