“Unfortunately, even conservatives are still thinking in a strait jacket. And I don’t anticipate that changing anytime soon”
Spirited: This is not surprising given that evolutionary thinking has been transforming the minds of Westerners and Americans for many long years. From cave-man movies to the GEICO cave-man commercials, to the teaching of Darwinism in universities and grade-schools, to evolution-themed science fiction, the constant implication is that life began at the bottom and has been riding an upward moving escalator from primordial matter to dinosaurs, to cave-man to man to deep space extraterrestrials.
Modern Westerners cannot think straight because evolution inverts creation, and where a god is mentioned it is an evolving nature deity such as Teilhard’s invention.
Teilhard’s deity finally emerges out of but remains completely immanent within matter, which by virtue of this deity is now spiritual rather than physical, and divine.
“Unfortunately, even conservatives are still thinking in a strait jacket. And I don’t anticipate that changing anytime soon”
Spirited: This is not surprising given that evolutionary thinking has been transforming the minds of Westerners and Americans for many long years. From cave-man movies to the GEICO cave-man commercials, to the teaching of Darwinism in universities and grade-schools, to evolution-themed science fiction, the constant implication is that life began at the bottom and has been riding an upward moving escalator from primordial matter to dinosaurs, to cave-man to man to deep space extraterrestrials.
That's all true, spirited, but the evolution business is not at all what I was referring to. I was referring to the entire pagan/secular "western" ideology, including that of the American Founding. I was referring to "freedom of religion" itself (which didn't exist in Biblical Israel). I was referring to the modern schizophrenic western mentality that pays lip service to G-d in private but worships "democracy" or "western tolerance" in public. I'm talking about a world in which people have to stop taking their religious beliefs seriously the moment they step outside their front doors.
The entire "enlightenment" project has been a disaster. There are no "rights" that don't come from G-d, including "freedom of religion." How long has it been since you read the Book of Joshua? No "bill of rights" there!
Most conservatives are simply not capable of discovering the blinders they wear because they are devoted to a false religion in which G-d makes an "offer of salvation" which the individual is free to accept or reject. In fact there is no "offer of salvation." There is only G-d A-mighty, the King of the Kings of the Kings, and His Laws which are mandatory. This worldview is so alien to the modern world that I don't think most people are capable of understanding it. Ironically, the moslems seem to come the closest, and for this reason are hated by "conservatives" who believe in "freedom of religion." In fact the only problem with the moslems is they have the wrong religion.