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To: Wallace T.
What is the point of defeating Muslim extremists or lessening government regulations and lowering taxes that restrict economic growth if our society becomes so obsessed with self-gratification and immoral behavior that our nation becomes an intolerable place for people who hold to traditional, Biblical morality?



When people go so far right they start to mirror the far left. Your post differs little from some DUer who thinks if Amerikkka keeps on it's fascist path "What is the point of defeating Muslim extremists"
313 posted on 12/06/2006 9:59:40 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: Blackirish
You have evidently accepted the false "right/left" dichotomy promoted by liberal social scientists. In academia and the MSM, as well as the RINOs here on FR, white separatists, conservative Christians, fascists, libertarians, Objectivists, John Birch-style conspiracy theorists, traditional conservatives in the mold of Barry Goldwater and the elder Taft, and so forth are lumped together as the "far right." The only common thread among these disparate groups is their opposition to Marxism and international socialism. The "right/left" dichotomy that you have used is derived from the Marxist dialectic, which perceives a struggle between the thesis (progress, or socialism) and the antithesis (reaction to progress). The Marxist view is that progress, which they deem to be the advance of society toward communism, is inevitable out of what they deem historical necessity. Thus, their opponents, irrespective of the particulars of their political ideology or metaphysics, are to be attacked and destroyed because they hinder what they call progress.

Check your premises, because at least in this respect, they are compatible with DU.

As for the effects of mass obsession with self-gratification and immorality, we need only look to history, which is replete with examples of the decay and collapse of societies that fall into this trap. I suggest reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, who, BTW, was no friend of Christianity. The works of Arnold Toynbee and Oswald Spengler also document the relationship of moral decadence to the rise and fall of human societies.

353 posted on 12/06/2006 10:40:38 AM PST by Wallace T.
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