Re: IE: War on Christianity from the secular standpoint Archived Message
Posted by Thomas Newfield on January 10, 2020, 3:41 pm, in reply to "Re: IE: War on Christianity from the secular standpoint"
Getting discombobulated over a non-issue arising from your (pl.) confusion: false splitting of humanity from its sacred artifacts and places - that's what I meant by tying in knots. By humanism I mean the privileging of humanity over anything else in terms of value. Cf. religion, which humanists like to denigrate, in their fanatical unawareness that they set up man as god. Secularism: I think you know what that means. Though secularists like to claim they are the paragons of reason, in my view they merely worship reason - a creation of man - setting up a rigid structure to their arrogance. After all what is really known of reality? Not an argument against reason btw. In my life, admittedly short on experience, the most intelligent people have circumscribed their personal gifts with a sense of awe and devotion. Reason is always hobbled without this. Examples of those who scoff at cultural genocide: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/archive/1517341318.html In this thread there are examples of denial of obvious persection, eg: https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1577880540.html You yourself in a rhetorical flourish conflated Christianity with the war-supporting CofE. I don't hold it against you. But in the deliberate cultural onslaught on Christianity in the EU and amid the burning and descration of churches in France and the well-documented war on Orthodoxy wherever it's alive including the takeover and destruction of ancient holy places, bombs massacres in many places around the world, it's a bit of a parrochial and blinkered view. In general the refusal to countenance a quite obvious campaign, or ascibing it to peoples' choice (Brooks especially) is a denial of destruction (not only of "property") that multiplies the original crime.
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