"God is Dead," Now We'll Create our Global Village -or- Why Christians are Mentally Ill

Chronwatch ^ | Jan. 2, 2006 | Linda Kimball

[labette]

This one's a keeper.
There are some FReepers who really should read this. May their hearts not be so hardened that they are angered, and thus turn farther away.

[Fzob]

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[Agent Smith]

First rate bump!

[KStorm]

Mental disturbances certainly don't jibe with mental "rigidity".

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As usual with leftists, the true meaning of their words is couched in deceptive code. When the deceptions are peeled away we discover that ''dogmatism'' refers to Christianity, ''mental rigidity'' refers to ''individualism,'' and ''uncertainty avoidance'' really means that Christians are resistant to the ''change-through-consensus'' process. (See: Psychopolitics: Erasing Christianity through the Consensus Process, Linda Kimball)

Also known as The Delphi Technique.

[Popman]

A small number of people—high priests, kings, Caesars, etc., stood apart from the masses and were viewed as being magical and/or godlike. This was because they were the interpreters of nature’s divine forces. Because these ''elites'' seemingly possessed these abilities, and were thus the vital link between the masses of ''lesser beings'' and nature’s divinity, they thus became the ultimate source of knowledge and authority. Quite literally, whatever they felt or thought became the law of the land. Self-evidently, this way of thinking united both secular and religious powers in one, which leads to but one end---totalitarianism.

Interesting comment in lieu of the way some moon bat liberals think of the "Bush-bots" and religious conservatives in general.

We are so blinded by our "religion" and love of all things "Bush" or "Rovian", we are walking blindly into a totalitarian state and too stupid to know it. Only they have the clarity to see the enormous fraud being perpetuated upon the American people.

They are probably 100 posts a day at DUmmies basically saying that exact same thing

............and they think we are the gullible ones

[Popman]

Bookmarked and bumped

[Fzob]

Good insight.

[polymuser]

CS Lewis----one of my favorites...

A couple of his titles for others here:

Mere Christianity

Miracles

[polymuser]

Georg Hegel restated Aristotle's concepts: "The State is the absolute reality and the individual…has existence, truth, morality only in his capacity as a member of the State."

That's an important quote, going to the heart of the left's agenda. Especially those that want to be part of the ruling elite class of The State.

Again, look into The Frankfurt School for where many of their specific tactics originated.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer from 'mental rigidity,' 'dogmatism,' and 'uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness." . . .

Well, these things are true for many "social conservatives", especially those whose conservatism stems entirely from religious beliefs. But they also hold true for many adherents of leftist philosophies, who cling fast to dogmatic beliefs in the power of socialism to solve all problems, just as many religious people cling fast to the belief that all problems would be solved if everybody would just believe what they believe. Both camps use extreme social pressure and brainwashing techniques to try to stamp out uncertainty in their ranks. I'm always amused at how both camps, who claim to inhabit opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum, are devoted to a dogma of the evilness of humans -- religious conservatives with their dogma about inherent sinfulness, the fall of Adam, yadda yadda; lefties with their dogma about humans destroying the planet. Both symptoms of the same mental illness, if you ask me -- good old-fashioned self-loathing.

When the deceptions are peeled away we discover that ''dogmatism'' refers to Christianity, ''mental rigidity'' refers to ''individualism,'' and ''uncertainty avoidance'' really means that Christians are resistant to the ''change-through-consensus'' process.

Nonsense, conservative and orthodox Judaism certainly are included, and most of these scholars would include Islam to the extent that it is a religious movement (though it is largely a political movement, and many of these scholars are no doubt sympathetic to its political agenda). "Mental rigidity" refers to their stubborn refusal to consider the possibility of flaws in their belief system (again, displayed just as zealously by religious conservatives and socialist/envirowacko leftists). "Uncertainty avoidance" really is a pretty unique feature of religious conservatism, and refers to psychological dependence on the belief that they know everything that it's important to know and that the final outcome of their own consciousness and of the whole world is certain, and they know what it is. Leftists almost universally rely on the opposite psychological dependence, namely, belief in extreme uncertainty, with personal and group adherence to the belief system utterly dependent on perpetual fear of what may happen if they don't stick to their belief system and persuade most of the world to convert to it -- if we don't cut down our use of paper and recycle every scrap endlessly, there will be no more forests, the whole environment will be horribly toxic from the output of pulp and paper factories, all the animals will die, and we will suffer the equivalent of burning in hell for eternity. Opposite psychological dependencies, but equally nutty, and with pretty much equal potential for harm.

A handful of leftist movements, not the least of which was the Soviet Communist movement, had an dependence more like that of religious conservatives, in which they firmly believed they would save the world by convincing everyone to believe what they believe. For a more recent, smaller, and kookier example of this, read up on the National Labor Federation which, although it has had to give up its firm date on which it assured members it would control the world, continues to operate under many front groups, including the Eastern Service Workers Association. Even many lefties find this group alarming.
History of NLF: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
List of National Labor Federation front groups: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
Alarmed leftist sounding a warning: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
college prof who's been duped into recruiting for ESWA: http://sociology.department.tcnj.edu/Internshippage/SWK/SWKeswa.HTM

[metmom]

ping for later read

[antisocial]

Bump for later read.

[Cvengr]

Memories of 'you are obsolete!'

[Wings-n-Wind]

Thanks for a great post
Ping for later consumption...

[labette]

Your delphi technique link should be mandatory reading for any freeper who attends lots of meetings.

Apologies to all for straying from topic.

[Zechariah_8_13]

Definitely worth your time to read the article and ensuing comments.

[popdonnelly]

Liberals and leftists suffer from grandiosity, paranoia, and depression.

[Lurker]

Considering how much strange Ben Franklin was getting his remarks about infidelity are pretty odd.

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