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"words of truth" |
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30 Jan 2006 12:25:11 PM |
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The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
http://pblosser.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_pblosser_archive.html#1121805...
The death knell of modernity
Do you hear the bell toll? Kneel down: the bell tolls for a dying world
-- the world of liberal secular humanism. Nowhere is this more evident
than in the Church. Have you ever wondered why liberals are always so
insufferably bitter? The reason is not hard to guess. They are graying.
Their ranks are thinning. The ideals they were brainwashed into
accepting during their heyday no longer bear any hope of semblance to
the present and future reality of the Church. Their hopes and dreams
about seizing the helm of the Church and steering her off in new
direction has been exposed for what it always was: pure fantasy.
Below are a couple of delightfully elevating quotations from a book by
our friend, Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College
(that's a Jesuit College, not a Catholic one, as he reminds us). In his
1988 book, Fundamentals of the Faith, Kreeft writes:
"Secularism is dying. The modern world is dying. The new Roman Empire
is dying. The new world order of secular, scientific humanism is
dying.... The Church is no longer the embattled establishment trying
desperately to hold on. The Church today is the revolutionaries, the
guerillas, enlisting freedom fighters for her wild and wonderful cause.
We orthodox Christians are the young today; the Modernists are the old.
We are not trying to save a tired, old Church; we are trying to save a
tired, old world and make it young with the youth of Christ's Church."
(p. 23)
"The modern mind ... does not know the theocentric God, for the modern
mind is anthropocentric, not theocentric. God and the cosmos are
thought of in relation to man and their effect in human life. Modernity
prefers a 'realistic' religion. But this anthropocentrism is precisely
the opposite of realism, i.e., living reality, conforming to reality.
For God really is the center, not man. The medieval Christan mind was
most realistic; the modern mind takes refuge in superstition and
fantasy. Anthropocentrism is like Hamlet thinking that Shakespeare
exists for him and is to be judged by him." (p. 119)
http://pblosser.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_pblosser_archive.html#112180554825521861
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
30 Jan 2006 11:10:48 PM |
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In <1138645511.823532.78150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "words of
truth" <wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> wrote:
The death knell of modernity
Yeah, you and Osama...
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Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "Kate" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
30 Jan 2006 02:56:26 PM |
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LOL, just saying something doesn't make it true. Unfortunately its
exactly the other way around. Humanism is growing steadily and
religiousity is fading slowly but surely.
Never fails to disappoint me that religous folks are always the ones
with the lies.
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| User: "Mark Sebree" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
30 Jan 2006 08:52:38 PM |
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Kate wrote:
LOL, just saying something doesn't make it true. Unfortunately its
exactly the other way around. Humanism is growing steadily and
religiousity is fading slowly but surely.
Why is that unfortunate? It sounds more like a fortunate trend, since
such helps equality and liberty, and tears down racism, bigotry, and
intolerance.
Never fails to disappoint me that religous folks are always the ones
with the lies.
It may be disappointing, but it is understandable. Religions generally
prefer that their people remain ignorant and that knowledge not
advance, especially communication and transportation fields. If you
can keep people ignorant and in a single area without easy means of
leaving or communicating with others, it is easier to control them and
brainwash them. They are less likely to get "radical" ideas, like the
religion in the area is a bunch of hooey, that other people have as
much right to everything as they do, that homosexuals should have the
same rights as heterosexuals and not be forced into hiding or denial.
If religion had the truth and the facts on their side, they would not
have to lie and distort the truth.
Mark Sebree
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| User: "Attila" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
31 Jan 2006 05:21:56 AM |
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On 30 Jan 2006 10:25:11 -0800, "words of truth"
<wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> in alt.abortion with message-id
<1138645511.823532.78150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
Another off-topic post from one of the usual sources.
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| User: "LC" |
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30 Jan 2006 01:31:50 PM |
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Spamming loon "words of truth" <wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:1138645511.823532.78150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
The Church today is the revolutionaries, the guerillas
And look how well that's working out in Iraq and Afghanistan.
LC~ Kill 'em all and let Gawd© sort 'em out.
"A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around
them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not
conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall
of words between his consciousness and his real self."~ Eric Hoffer
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
30 Jan 2006 02:58:35 PM |
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"LC" <LCisnot@this.com> wrote in message
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Spamming loon "words of truth" <wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> wrote in
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The Church today is the revolutionaries, the guerillas
With a church on every frickin' street corner? I don't think those words
mean what you think they mean.
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Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
http://www.ashenempires.com
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| User: "Siobhan Burke" |
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31 Jan 2006 03:46:55 PM |
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In article <Nd6dndMOb6Fp4EPenZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@io.com>,
dloubet@io.com says...
"LC" <LCisnot@this.com> wrote in message
news:drlpjo02rrp@enews3.newsguy.com...
Spamming loon "words of truth" <wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:1138645511.823532.78150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
The Church today is the revolutionaries, the guerillas
With a church on every frickin' street corner? I don't think those words
mean what you think they mean.
But it makes him feel oh so cool and hip and dangerous...not
to mention smug, self-righteous and superior, of course.
--
Siobhan - a.a. #2201
hellflower@earthlink.alMayne.net (Now a real address, if you ice
the alMayne.)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the
precipitate.
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: The Age Of Humanism Is Over |
30 Jan 2006 02:18:47 PM |
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words of truth <wordsoftruth201@hotmail.com> wrote:
Do you hear the bell toll? Kneel down: the bell tolls for a dying world
-- the world of liberal secular humanism. Nowhere is this more evident
than in the Church. Have you ever wondered why liberals are always so
insufferably bitter? The reason is not hard to guess. They are graying.
It's actually the conservatives who are graying. Baby boomers are
more conservative that their predecessors.
--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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