. @larsthebadman Atheism is beyond doubt a religion - a fervent belief in the unknowable, mandating the elaborate unceasing worship of the self, fuelled by constant sacrifices of other people to sustain it. Its temples are everywhere.
@realCarola2Hope What gets me is that if you look at the tension between Jews and Christians in Europe before the war for hundreds of years then the conclusion is that they are opposing tribes that have nothing in common and infact are not linked much besides conflict and opposition
Thomas Sowell:
“I regard poverty as simply the absence of wealth, so what I look for are the things that cause wealth to occur.”
“Everyone is born poor and ignorant. To the extent that people become different, we have to find out what enables them to become different.”
You need to rebuild what was lost.
- Worship
- Read old books
- Lift heavy things
- Build with beauty
- Speak with clarity
- Live with reverence
- Tie your daily actions to eternal things
It’s very interesting that God commands us to love our neighbour, rather than to love the whole world. This reveals a humbling truth about our nature. We are actually incapable of loving the whole world because whenever anyone tries they become insufferably evil.
“Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance.”
— Thomas Sowell
Vice President JD Vance tells Michael Knowles why he became Catholic:
"The idea that Christian doctrine was fundamentally founded on Jesus Christ and the Church beyond that... If it really is founded on Jesus Christ, it shouldn't change."
Dostoevsky was one of the two or three greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. And he cared for nothing but Christ who had made him free. It is worth thinking about.
Thomas footnote: T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica:
[F]oreigners “were not at once admitted to citizenship” because “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.
This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.
There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.
Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.
This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.
But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.
Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.
What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.
If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.
Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?
It's the Great Replacement, plain and simple
Demoralize the native population into not forming families and aborting their children while importing more compliant populations and subsidizing their birthrate
It's not a conspiracy, it's just leftist policy
Thomas Sowell: “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference.”