Alright, I've seen enough.
Choking on religion? Quite understand.
In the spirit of a rare Friday off, recently ticked over to the weekend smoothly enough, I'll bite. Wait a sec, let me first crack open another Summer Shandy. There, that's better. And you're absolutely correct: regarding religion there certainly is much worse out there. Take for instance Aztec worship of their underworld god which involved ritual cannibalism and the wearing of fresh human skins. But I digress; I am choking on the root philosophies disseminated and hybridized and re-purified over the last two centuries from which the mighty Temple of Satan founders--and the initiators of the American cultural and intellectual revolutions derived their ideological vapor lock--not religion, as it were.
For example we could talk Nietzsche's Perspectivism which holds that the formation of all ideas spring from different perspectives, of which there are an infinite number from which to determine truth and form judgement. Essentially, what I suspect Nietzsche is getting at here is that truth cannot be observed, defined or communicated from a single perspective, but rather truth can only be arrived at or determined by a confluence of many differing perspectives--or points of view. Couple that with meta-ethical Moral Nihilism and Error Theory, and trust me, we needn't visit the history of religion to find horror between the dusty, molded pages of human thought processes had in questioning the universe.
See, in lack of religious belief; in the puritanical absence of God, the human mind allows for the visitation of terrors far beyond those historically visited on other men by the believer-adherent to structured faith, in that small, empty or hollow gap of nothingness so many of our species greatest philosophers mistook to be enlightenment over the draconian natures of the Dark Ages rule of the early Church. That mistaken enlightenment, or secular epiphany was, in reality, a gateway to the human mind unleashed from its primeval moral cage; unchained from the ancient foundation truth of personal responsibility, fear of consequence for amoral behavior, and fearless indulgence of whatever pleased the self no matter how wrong or violent.
Well would you look at that; I've strayed far off course for 44 minutes. Briefly then, and in getting back to the topic at hand, we can, with even a small nod toward reason and the history of Modernist philosophy, see clearly reflected in the America of today's cultural cesspit, the root causes for moral decline over last six decades, in the original ideological roots from which the tattersall disbelief in foundational right and wrong of pop culture Americana were planted, when and by whom. Observe: the likes of the Temple of Stupidity--I mean, of Satan, and the postmodernist intellectual quagmire from which it sprouted.
