....or maybe because it is a rainy, gray day, or maybe because it is beyond evident that
a. the Democrat Party may be breathing its last
b. that the Bolsheviks have won and have taken over the party
c. or that it is evident that they cannot contend with Trump
....or that it is Dostoevsky's birthday.......the guy was a deep thinker, and that he recognized that God was the basis for truth....
1. The denial of God serves as a psychological crutch for someone who needs to hope that there is no accountability for his failure to believe, or for deficiencies in his self-concocted moral system. .... Dostoevsky once claimed, if there is no God, all acts are equivalent. Evolutionary theory attempts to add the patina of credibility to the atheistic position."
Were We Fooled by Stephen J. Gould?
2.Can a human being be good without reference to God? Sure.there could be good pagans.or bad religious folks?
Absolutely.
But God is necessary for morality to survive. Take as an example, a sadist who gets satisfaction from murdering children. If there is no God who declares that such an act is wrong, then my arguing such is simply my opinion versus that of the murderer.
Without God, good and evil are a matter of taste.
3. There were primitive societies prior to the three millennia since Moses, in 1313 BCE. That’s when God offered the contract, the Ten Commandments, acceptance of which sent mankind off to the races, producing the greatest culture ever known: Western Civilization.
Perhaps the key change is found in Genesis 1:26-27
Genesis 1:26-27 New International Version (NIV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
From that,follows the Commandment “thou shalt not murder.”
The Democrat Party has strayed far from that idea, instead, substituted Dostoevsky's adage: Ivan Karamazov, in “The Brothers Karamazov,” exclaimed ‘if God does not exist, then everything is permitted.’
Including murdering babies.
4. "Aleksandr Isayevich[a] Solzhenitsyn ... was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia
...for Solzhenitsyn was the intelligentsia’s fervent rejection of Christianity, replaced by faith in scientific progress and a mankind-worshiping idolatry. This atheism was all-embracing and uncritical in its belief that science is competent to dispose of all religious questions, finally and comprehensively. In Solzhenitsyn’s view, the intelligentsia had yielded to the temptation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor—may the truth rot, if people are the happier for it." Intelligentsia Elegy
5. It's a checklist for the Democrats and Liberals!
an obsession with egalitarian social justice
paralyzes the love of and interest in truth
hypnotic faith in its own ideology and intolerance for any other;
and the adoption of “hatred as a passionate ethical impulse
fervent rejection of Christianity
a. the Democrat Party may be breathing its last
b. that the Bolsheviks have won and have taken over the party
c. or that it is evident that they cannot contend with Trump
....or that it is Dostoevsky's birthday.......the guy was a deep thinker, and that he recognized that God was the basis for truth....
1. The denial of God serves as a psychological crutch for someone who needs to hope that there is no accountability for his failure to believe, or for deficiencies in his self-concocted moral system. .... Dostoevsky once claimed, if there is no God, all acts are equivalent. Evolutionary theory attempts to add the patina of credibility to the atheistic position."
Were We Fooled by Stephen J. Gould?
2.Can a human being be good without reference to God? Sure.there could be good pagans.or bad religious folks?
Absolutely.
But God is necessary for morality to survive. Take as an example, a sadist who gets satisfaction from murdering children. If there is no God who declares that such an act is wrong, then my arguing such is simply my opinion versus that of the murderer.
Without God, good and evil are a matter of taste.
3. There were primitive societies prior to the three millennia since Moses, in 1313 BCE. That’s when God offered the contract, the Ten Commandments, acceptance of which sent mankind off to the races, producing the greatest culture ever known: Western Civilization.
Perhaps the key change is found in Genesis 1:26-27
Genesis 1:26-27 New International Version (NIV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
From that,follows the Commandment “thou shalt not murder.”
The Democrat Party has strayed far from that idea, instead, substituted Dostoevsky's adage: Ivan Karamazov, in “The Brothers Karamazov,” exclaimed ‘if God does not exist, then everything is permitted.’
Including murdering babies.
4. "Aleksandr Isayevich[a] Solzhenitsyn ... was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia
...for Solzhenitsyn was the intelligentsia’s fervent rejection of Christianity, replaced by faith in scientific progress and a mankind-worshiping idolatry. This atheism was all-embracing and uncritical in its belief that science is competent to dispose of all religious questions, finally and comprehensively. In Solzhenitsyn’s view, the intelligentsia had yielded to the temptation of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor—may the truth rot, if people are the happier for it." Intelligentsia Elegy
5. It's a checklist for the Democrats and Liberals!
an obsession with egalitarian social justice
paralyzes the love of and interest in truth
hypnotic faith in its own ideology and intolerance for any other;
and the adoption of “hatred as a passionate ethical impulse
fervent rejection of Christianity
