Posted on 12/14/2018 7:49:32 AM PST by Kaslin
The Great War.
Killing 10,000 of your best men a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years, will do that.
LIBERALISM!!!!!..................
and the romance of Socialism!
and in no way do I mean to imply anything positive about my use of the words romance & socialism!
Jimmy Carter!
Hmmmm...Fifty years of decadence and hedonism, that is widespread drug use, fornication, pornography, neo pagan earth worship complete with rituals replacing religious dogma, the canonization of celebrities, a birth rate below replacement due to abortion and birth control, the embrace of homosexuality, pathetic dependence rather than self reliance in whole segments of the population, the “multicultural” acceptance of the alien bizarre and the loss of a common consensus of values. Gee whatever happened to the West?
Forces aligned to destroy the body of christ.
Hands tied. Cant fight back.
The Great War was a symptom, not a cause. These Western democracies have all broken down for the simple reason that democracy as it has been peddled to the masses for the last 150 years doesn’t work.
As per our discussion yesterday. It really does look more and more like it is too late to affect any change that will “fix” the problems. trump was probably our last best hope for a major course correction, but the left has him all tied up in lawsuits and lies.
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Anytime you have idealistic rationalists in charge (read: people divorced from reality who want the rest of the world to resemble the ideas floating around in their heads), you are going to have a crappy unworkable society. We don’t need anymore conveyer-belts from elite colleges to positions of power. Instead, we need more empirical thinkers. That, as simple as it is, is the problem.
What are the underlying causes of these 21st-century crises of Western democracies?
LIBERALISM!!!!!..................
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The inevitable long term result of liberalism is to turn people into lazy, dependents with zero sense of self reliance nor any significant motivation to realize their potential. Malaise
That’s because the democracy so peddled is in fact Marxism.
Yes, the destruction of Christianity is a central tenet of Marxism.
120 years of Progressive Leftism
The disruptors of social calm--that is the grievance mongers & "community organizers"--have embraced that mania. We either learn to stand up to them or accept the social chaos they seek.
Really Pat? You know this answer better than any of us. You’ve been battling against them your entire career!
The problem is a simple one to understand, but oh lordy, try to solve it. Trump is an empiricist and you would think it was the end of the world that he is POTUS. Start replacing the rest of them and the media will fairly convulse into the hissing biting cornered rats that they are.
A consequence and related cause is the rise of tribalism, or ethno-nationalism, the search for identity and community with one’s own. Loyalties to family, tribe, neighborhood, culture and country appear paramount, rising above intellectual and political alignments.
Obviously what’s needed now is a threat from outer space.
The Church is not free of complicity in its own destruction. Or, not really destruction as much as diminution of influence in society.
Theology unbefitting an infinitely holy God is poison that has been allowed to infect the Church, BY the Church. Without that self-weakening, the leftist hordes would not have had an in to destroy it.
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