James:
So much for pop psychology!
>>Terrence, you too, are a paradox. You use the title "Father" Yet seem delighted to thrust until the subject of your well aimed verbal attacks is "put down" or decimated. You aim for the heart, and you have little if any, compassion for your fellow man.<<
Actually, I believe Mankind can aspire to much greater achievements. I also believe that Man is intrinsically good -- while you hold dear a proto-philosophy (Judeo-Christianity) that has its roots in primitive savagery and believes, intrinsically, that Man is evil, unworthy, and "unclean." Who has a better view of Man?
I am a "Father" of The Church of Three Garters, which John and I created as a joke. If you'll note: I only counter those who promote anti-reason and anti-life. I praise those who think rationally and face reality. You see, most men and women have been brainwashed to believe senseless bromides which twists or destroys the greatness of Man. Through "education", the media, revisionist history, religion, parents and peers, and society in general, many are becoming a race of senseless, insensitive beings. They have lost what it is to be truly human. They have lost the capability to think. They have become legions of lemmings, robots going through the motions of daily life. They seek escape from their emptiness, their pain, their terror in entertainment that is itself mindless, spewing out stale platitudes of meaningless "human insight". Predators are glorified, creators are vilified.
What we are living in today is no longer the real America -- it is a dying carcass, wounded by default. John and I only hope it is not a mortal wound. Why is America dying? Because all that which is good is and has been perverted. We are losing our liberty, fallacious "group rights" are superceding real rights -- those of the individual; educators, politicians, mystics and half-baked statists are pulling and pushing us not towards the 21st Century, but the 13th Century.
I have great compassion for Man; I am NOT an altruist. Altruism is the warped "morality" of those that truly hate Man. . . hate Man's mind, his incontrovertible right to exist, his spirit. Christianity preaches altruism.
>> You are in agreement only when it suits your ploy to set others up for the kill.<<
I am in agreement when men are acting rationally -- disagreement when they say or do irrational things.
>>You are indeed a crafty fellow, but you will only be able to allude the consequences of your closed mind and hatred of others to a point.<<
I am not a "crafty" fellow, but an honest fellow who respects reality and refuses to blank-out my mind to the inconsistencies of an immoral life-style.
>>I would suspect that you probably live out your dank existence in the confines of a small study, surrounded by books whose subject matter is less than wholesome, with a get even attitude against someone who has had authority over you and you have had to keep your rebellious nature in check only to spew your vileness at others through your instrument of wrath-your computer.<<
I do not live in some dank basement surrounded by books! Hah, what an image! I've traveled the world, currently reside in the U.S., have homes in the Caribbean and Europe and love this world. Yes, I have read and studied many thousands of books -- but have put much effort into action as well.
As to authority -- I respect only those authorities that protect the true rights of the individual as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights -- not those that subvert Mans' individual rights through political coercion, "law", or edicts backed up by a gun. I do not "give to Caesar that which is Caesar's" because Caesars do not respect nor honor the rights of Man to individual property, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Caesar (and Jesus, for that matter) would not support unrestricted capitalism. Unfortunately, neither do most of the statist now in Washington.
>> I sense loss and loneliness in your senseless attacks upon Christians who have a much better "good orderly direction in life than you.<<
As to Christians having an "orderly sense of life" -- well, so do ants, but I do not desire to be one.
I challenge you, James, to pick up a copy of "Atlas Shrugged". Study it, think on it with an open mind. Then talk with me.
Father Terrence |
