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I forgot who said,
"It's easier to die than it is to use your head," but I find it to be disturbingly the norm more and more these days.
posted by
strat
on September 8, 2006 at 7:26 AM
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strat -- we've seen posts right here on Blogit that have declared Secular
Humanists as pawns of Satan.
Progressive thinking somehow has become the enemy of a belief in God to these people and by the extension of their fuzzy logic, is responsible for taking God out of our everyday lives. It is scary to see a medieval mentality such as this resurface in modern times.
posted by
gomedome
on September 8, 2006 at 7:19 AM
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Yikes!
Such thinking -- holding back what is essentially common sense, in the name of some collective dogma -- is what makes such catch phrases as "Four legs good; two legs bad, baaaa, baaaa," so scary. That and the fact that people so easily do it.
posted by
strat
on September 8, 2006 at 7:08 AM
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SuccessWarrior - the only good thing that can be said of this mentality
is that those who would burn at the stake any individual with a progressive mind set can't get away with it any more.....at least not in the literal sense.
posted by
gomedome
on September 7, 2006 at 8:42 AM
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Xeno-x - what really scares me about the mentality that would hold
anyone with a progressive philosophy as an enemy of religion is this:
It seems not to be an isolated or fringe mentality but one that is widely promoted. Science seems to be under the same type of attack. This manner thinking is not good for anyone, it is simply the promotion of ignorance and a desire by some people to have the world fit into their perceptions.
posted by
gomedome
on September 7, 2006 at 8:40 AM
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Anyone who believes in thinking for themselves is the enemy of religion
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on September 7, 2006 at 7:55 AM
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Yeshua said
"he who is not against me is for me." (and, of course, the obverse).
If a philosophy holds up the highest ideals of human culture, then it is not an enemy, really, of any religion, but an ally.
it is religion that makes it an enemy; but religion has not exactly expressed the highest ideals of human culture during its long history. Only given mouth service to it.
maybe secular humanism equates to the rocks and stones at the feet of the religionists that John the Baptist confronted. where religion is bankrupt in the main, secular humanism, with its emphasis on the ideals rather than the faith, fulfills more the great original religious thinkers' intent.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 7, 2006 at 7:41 AM
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