Sunday, January 31, 2010

Dig It! I am a personalist!

I am coming out of the closet! I am a personalist! Wouldn't you like to be one too?

The Moral Descent of Man

Romans 1:16-32

For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.

For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; as it is written, "The one who is righteous by faith will live."

The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them.

Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

While claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.

They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents.

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Population Bomb is a Myth!

I saw an interesting documentary last night. It dealt with demographics and its intrinsic relation to the human race; economically, socially, politically, etc. The synopsis goes like this. Humans, for a variety of reasons are having less and less children and, despite the "Population Bomb" alarmist proponents' pleasure, is not a good thing. The documentary chronicled the likely impact of this "Demographic Winter" on human beings. The bottom line is that the numbers prove (scientifically) that the most efficient way for the human race to sustain itself, in all aspects, is the traditional patrimonial family and society. It is, in the words of one expert, "The Gold Standard". I am sure this science will be ignored by the socially, leftist radicals that populate our universities. After all, who am I to suggest that SURVIVAL is more important than "sexual freedom"? So....why is divorce, homosexuality, fornication, pornography, and all sorts of sexual deviance bad? Because it decreases our ability to survive as a species. Take Heed!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Atheists are Cowards!

I really believe this statement. Please allow me to elaborate by defining my terms. An Atheist is, generally, someone who rejects Theism (or at least one of its forms) or denies that any deities exist. I am, specifically, discussing the anti-supernatural materialists that are typified by Richard Dawkins and his ilk.

By use of the term Coward, I mean to indicates someone who "shows disgraceful fear or timidity". More specifically, they display this intellectual cowardice by refusing to utilize their God-given (or natural, if you prefer) intellectual capabilities to reason to atheism's logical conclusion; that is, fear, hopelessness, selfishness, and nihilism. I prefer to see it as the Willy Wonka does and say that "You should never doubt what no one is sure about".

The belief in deities is as old a mankind and shows no signs of abating. I am suggesting, as opposed to what the Daniel Dennett's of the world would say, that theism, in one form or another, is wired into our very being. It is as organic as the hair that grows in men's ears. If one person can be more intelligent than another, surely, it is likely that there be an ultimate higher being.

The type of Atheist that I am discussing here is the ones who proudly accept the label of "New Atheist". I am unsure how convinced people are of this novelty. The "New Atheists" are, largely, saying nothing more that the hardcore Atheists of the past. In fact, they are saying much less. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Satre at least had the courage to reason our their atheism to its logical end. This end, by the way, is not happy. Unsurprisingly, it lacks Hope (as well as Faith and Charity). Satre basically came to the conclusion that all man could do is bravely shake an angry fist in the face of man's cruel, short, and (ultimately) purposeless life.

The modern Atheist, like Mr. Dawkins, fancies that he and his comrades have stumbled upon ideas that have never been espoused before. They apparently have never read L'Etranger by Camus, or studied much world history. They clearly are not versed in what the real result of card carrying atheism has historically been, for the individual, as well as society. There is a direct correlation between the beliefs and actions of the most notorious mass murderers (like Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot) and atheism. Incidentally, one of the most bizarre views that have is that atheism was not responsible for Stalin's action, for example. As G.K. Chesterton said, "Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God".

As a side note I will acknowledge that faithful Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. have done horrific things. However, one simple glance at the numbers of persons killed due to atheistic ideologies and regimes should relieve one of the modern misunderstanding that religion causes all of the world problems. There is, also, the point that religions have a self-correcting collective moral conscience. Atheism, when it fully embraces relativistic morals, can permit no such conscience. For example, a hardcore Atheist can rightfully feel Pol Pot to have been an extremely efficient leader. This is rarely the case though, as Natural Law naturally manifests itself in the Atheist's conscience (despite his ignorance).

I am not, here, espousing one faith tradition or another. The Flying Spaghetti Monster may be offended at such audacity. My statement is intended to express that I wish people like Dawkins (who appears to be a gifted scientist) would not stop as studying merely mechanism and continue to ask questions about why. Metaphysics is alive and well for intelligent and reasonable people. As scientists study the "how" of the natural world, they need to be brave enough engage the cooresponding "why" questions. After all, It may turn out that atheism is a Darwinian misfire.


P.S. - I found another interesting perspective (and probably more interesting than mine) at this blog.