The Road to Dystopia

American Thinker ^ | Sept 1st 2013 | Susan D. Harris

[ansel12]

Wow, you sound badly stung, and a little nutty.

I guess it takes a weird kind of Southern Baptist to support the Sodom and Gomorrah, libertarian social agenda, you should choose one or the other.

Here is the leftist’s agenda hidden behind the Libertarian Party curtain.

Libertarian Party Platform:

Throw open the borders completely; only a rare individual (terrorist, disease carrier etc.) can be kept from freedom of movement through “political boundaries”.

Homosexuals; total freedom in the military, gay marriage, adoption, child custody and everything else.

Abortion; zero restrictions or impediments.

Pornography; no restraint, no restrictions.

Drugs; Meth, Heroin, Crack, and anything new that science can come up with, zero restrictions.

Advertising those drugs, prostitution, and pornography; zero restrictions.

Military Strength; minimal capabilities.

[Yardstick]

I don’t think Christianity had the kind of conflict with science that has been asserted by anti-religious types. The Galileo episode is a good example. In fact I wouldn’t call it a conflict so much as a latent susceptibility. It was inevitable that science would cause a crisis for religion. It changed the way people saw the world and opened up huge new areas of human effectiveness. It literally put humanity in a new place. You don’t get a massive shift like that without an accompanying crisis. Twentieth century socialism represents the low point of that crisis.

I don’t fault Christianity for getting knocked around a bit and I have no doubt that it will find its legs again, for the simple reason that God is real and Christianity has the best bead on reality. It’s a steel sharpening steel thing and science has given Christianity an opportunity to further refine itself.

But all that aside, I think you make a really interesting point about losing not just the Judeo-Christian but also the Greco-Roman philosophical basis, and that this has left even our secular humanists defenseless against the misuse of science. What is it that the Greco-Roman view possesses that could have defended against the misuse of science if it had been intact?