Posted on 09/25/2009 4:55:44 PM PDT by stimulusmyass
It is odd. I have been a lurker on this site for a long time, but this is the first story I ever submitted. I wonder if the thread was approved the second I made a second post?
Or maybe I have superpowers :)-
Saint John Vianney, aka “the Cure d’Ars”, said: “Take priests away from churches for 20 years and people will worship beasts”. It’s just that simple. Take Christianity out of America, or anywhere else, and people will worship themselves, their brains, their bodies or beasts. The US government has successfully repressed the public expression of Christianity, and scoffed at religion and God Himself by punishing even the most benign, trivial, public expression of Christianity, hence we are now being ruled by atheistic intellectuals, communists, facists, narcissists, the effeminate, and every other form of humanism there is. America rose to power, not coincidentally, when we were governed by men who found no offense in the public expression of Christianity, and who in fact often publicly reverenced God for our nation’s blessings. That’s all gone now, and so goes the pillar and foundation of our cherished freedom.
. Simple.
Those that can do....those that can't ...teach.
muir_redwoods:Because it’s the perfect environment for people who know next to nothing, can accomplish nothing and are not ever measured objectively or asked to produce anything except a written record of their delusions.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!
NO more calls, please.
WE have TWIN WINNERS!
Cheers!
lol, I agree, brilliantly stated muir_redwoods and arthurus. You stated in a few words what i couldn’t in a thousand.
My, there really are some intelligent people on this forum. Such a breath of fresh air.
Great Thread and it’s clear from the enlightened posts - FReepers understand what has happened.
Now the question remains: “How to undo the decades of dumbing down?”
How do we stop funding the re-education camps with our hard-earned tax payer money?
lol, I agree, brilliantly stated muir_redwoods and arthurus. You stated in a few words what i couldn’t in a thousand. My, there really are some intelligent people on this forum. Such a breath of fresh air.
Take a bow, both of you.
Cheers!
Like the user name.
I think post 10 provides some good insight into the situation.
There! Fixed that. We must call the enemy who and what he is.
The truth is, some people (academics) have the desire/gift to research and teach. What is so wrong about that?
I consider myself to be a conservative on some things, libertarian on others and I am a lecturer at a university. There are some good non-lib profs out there, so don’t broad brush.
One last thing: I’m tired of reading “Those who can do, those who can’t teach” and the other backwoods sentiment on here. It is because of this sentiment we lost in ‘06 and ‘08- we’re resorting to slogans like “they can’t hack it in the real world hurhurhur” and NOT embracing conservative/libertarian intellectual traditions. Maybe if we didn’t mock higher education and the geist around it, things would have worked out differently in ‘06 and ‘08.
That’s all.
We need to become "community organizers" and infiltrate "the system". What has been happening is flight...just the opposite of what should have been done. It's not comfortable and it takes time...something people who work and have families don't want to do. You need to be willing to take the risks. Are we there yet?
Thank you for your service!
Envy and group-think...
Why?
Reconstruction?
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