This response is a rant. Apologies if it doesn't actually apply to what you referenced. I may just be projecting.
side note: I got a chuckle out of your profile, especially the bit about any women that think they're too hot to talk to you.
This smacks to me of new-age hippie garbage. An over-reaction to an over-reaction*: the 'fundamentalist' arrogance of those that think it their place to be a judge of the law, rather than a doer.
There are absolutes, and we must be prepared to die for them; but - and this is where the 'fundies' get it wrong - it's not our place to fight, kill, or in any way try to force them upon others. Such is the path of lamb to the slaughter: To enter the fray, and not fight: only uphold the banner of truth. "To live is Christ to die is gain" - Paul.
To wax poetic about everyone getting along is humanistic.
1+1=2; and existence is binary: things are fundamentally right, or wrong. Gray is confusion; and only actually exists in the human psyche: the result of blurring one or more black/white issues together.
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that “the sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muhammadan, and the Jew.” Sincerity has no bearing whatsoever on validity: One can be sincerely wrong. Society is defensive about such things, because in many ways people still live in the dark ages**: they think they are what they think and do, rather than that which makes the decisions. So what should be simple matters of truth, correction and true tolerance*** become issues of feelings and self-esteem.
I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being. That's not an argument. That is unsubstantiated drivel. Perception of reality is dictated by processed through paradigm. Feelings are the most unreliable of all supposed evidence; to even be mentioned is ridiculous.
Note: I live and die by intuition; but I know that it's not remotely rational, and is zero basis for an argument.
Only Christianity has a Christ figure. Only Christianity acknowledges and properly addresses the innate depravity - ergo self-destructive nature - of mankind - that is oh so obvious to anyone who doesn't have their head wedged up the collective ass of the species. And that is essentially what humanism is. The analogy fits.
*It's the same game republican's and democrats play: idiots reacting to one another's idiocy: two grossly overweight people playing tug of war, who individually have no personal sense of balance whatsoever.
**Which is laughably ironic seeing as the people perpetuating this touchy/feely victim-mentality twaddle purport to be oh so much more enlightened than those of past ages.
***I can say and think anything I please. That's not intolerance. Intolerance is whiny twits trying to gag me because my opinion is hostile to another person's present paradigm of reality. Tolerance/Intolerance are matters of authority. It's simply impossible for me to be tolerant or intolerant of something I have no control over. The government has become tolerant of crime and intolerant of free-thought, ironically in this time of great 'tolerance'
Apologies if it doesn't actually apply to what you referenced.
I may just be projecting.
side note: I got a chuckle out of your profile, especially the bit about any women that think they're too hot to talk to you.
This smacks to me of new-age hippie garbage.
An over-reaction to an over-reaction*: the 'fundamentalist' arrogance of those that think it their place to be a judge of the law, rather than a doer.
There are absolutes, and we must be prepared to die for them; but - and this is where the 'fundies' get it wrong - it's not our place to fight, kill, or in any way try to force them upon others.
Such is the path of lamb to the slaughter:
To enter the fray, and not fight: only uphold the banner of truth.
"To live is Christ to die is gain" - Paul.
To wax poetic about everyone getting along is humanistic.
1+1=2; and existence is binary: things are fundamentally right, or wrong.
Gray is confusion; and only actually exists in the human psyche: the result of blurring one or more black/white issues together.
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that “the sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muhammadan, and the Jew.”
Sincerity has no bearing whatsoever on validity:
One can be sincerely wrong.
Society is defensive about such things, because in many ways people still live in the dark ages**: they think they are what they think and do, rather than that which makes the decisions.
So what should be simple matters of truth, correction and true tolerance*** become issues of feelings and self-esteem.
I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
That's not an argument.
That is unsubstantiated drivel.
Perception of reality is dictated by processed through paradigm.
Feelings are the most unreliable of all supposed evidence; to even be mentioned is ridiculous.
Note: I live and die by intuition; but I know that it's not remotely rational, and is zero basis for an argument.
Only Christianity has a Christ figure.
Only Christianity acknowledges and properly addresses the innate depravity - ergo self-destructive nature - of mankind - that is oh so obvious to anyone who doesn't have their head wedged up the collective ass of the species. And that is essentially what humanism is. The analogy fits.
*It's the same game republican's and democrats play: idiots reacting to one another's idiocy: two grossly overweight people playing tug of war, who individually have no personal sense of balance whatsoever.
**Which is laughably ironic seeing as the people perpetuating this touchy/feely victim-mentality twaddle purport to be oh so much more enlightened than those of past ages.
***I can say and think anything I please. That's not intolerance. Intolerance is whiny twits trying to gag me because my opinion is hostile to another person's present paradigm of reality.
Tolerance/Intolerance are matters of authority.
It's simply impossible for me to be tolerant or intolerant of something I have no control over.
The government has become tolerant of crime and intolerant of free-thought, ironically in this time of great 'tolerance'
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