Hey, speaking of people that believe in absolutes, did you know that Lyndon LaRouche isn't dead (hell he was OLD when I was in college). He must be absolutely ancient now. He has lieutenants out on the late night talk radio circuit pretending to be "analysts". Here is a link if you've forgotten what his hot buttons are:
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A New Pagan Pantheon
At first glance, the root of the broader problem in the churches generally, is typified by the influence of the irrationalist Immanuel Kant in mapping the pathway to the widespread infiltration of nominally Christian churches, by the existentialist doctrines of Friedrich Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, and kindred pro-satanic influences.
The spread of "single-issuism" among sundry varieties of nominally Christian churches, by such as the followers of the pro-racist Nashville Agrarian cult, is a bellwether of the tidal-wave like spread of a modern neo-pagan cult of pantheism among the leading church organizations, and elsewhere today. Typical is the toleration of such explicitly evil circles of Kant followers as Nazi Professor Martin Heidegger, his crony Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Heidegger acolyte Jean-Paul Sartre, and other prophets of that form of neo-Nietzschean existentialist cultism, which dominates the philosophical dogma of the U.S. and other universities of today.
In today's European culture generally, the leading contemporary expression of this pantheonic neo-paganism, is the copying, or other echoing of Kant's doctrinal insistence that knowable truth does not exist. The spread of this doctrine was the principal vehicle for creating the pro-Nietzschean, neo-Romantic cult of Nazism in Germany, as that cult was the subject of the teaching of Nazi Professor Martin Heidegger, the spiritual father of France's Jean-Paul Sartre. This has been the doctrine of existentialist Karl Jaspers, and of the circles of Arendt and Adorno in the U.S.A. The principal leaders of that movement relied upon the doctrine of Kant. Lately, during the recent quarter century, the spread of this existentialist cult-belief has taken a radically positivism form, corrupting our U.S. public schools as well as leading universities. More and more, our public schools become a kind of allegedly democratic saturnalia, where reigning positivist maenads shriek: "There is no truth; there is only opinion."
This denial of the existence of truth, permeates our presently corrupted U.S. Justice system. It also permeates our churches, of all nominal confessions. It is often expressed as the substitution, as mere opinion, of doctrinal "single issuism" as a replacement for actual Christianity. This phenomenon, as spread through those churches, is presently a leading contributing factor in the world's slide toward not only generalized warfare, but also a threatened dark age for all humanity. Those who accept the existentialist denial of cognitively knowable truth, as distinct from merely deductive argument, must be recognized as plainly not Christians, whatever confession they may claim to represent.
Once that existentialist influence is spread into the leading religious bodies, a certain consequence is implicitly inevitable. I describe it.
Ancient pagan Rome addressed the problem of managing an empire composed of the subjects of numerous axiomatically incongruent forms of religious or religious-like belief. Religion was degraded to a kind of collection of carnival side-show exhibitions, all arrayed, as if in a circle, under a big tent called a "pantheon." The function of the Roman Emperor was therefore rooted in his essential law-decreeing role as "Pontifex Maximus." It was this organization of legally tolerated religious cults into a pantheon, under a Roman Pontifex Maximus, which was the essence of the Roman law, and of the Roman Empire as a legal institution.
This was the characteristic of every known empire of the Middle East, and of a Greece corrupted to the point of virtual self-destruction under the Olympus and Apollo cults. The essential function of the pantheons, in all cases, was to establish and maintain rule over the subject peoples by playing the devotees of the cults against one another. If you accepted the emperor's terms, including certain prescribed adjustments in your cult's belief-system, you could be adopted as a legalized cult of the empire; so it was among the Jewish hierarchy of Judea, under the Emperor Tiberius' son-in-law, Pontius Pilate.
In a pantheon, the legalized, purely arbitrary opinion of each cult is acknowledged as the doctrinal authority of the cult over its members, as this pantheonic doctrine of Roman law was used to accomplish the legalize murder of Jesus Christ. Thus, the cults are each and all arrayed in potential religious warfare among one another, as it may suit the imperial authority to pit them so, against one another, in some bloody arena. So it is with the evil and obviously deranged Zbigniew Brzezinski's zeal for a "Clash of Civilizations" between Islam and the west.
That is the key to Israel's assigned role in any "breakaway ally" scenario.
Such is the ancient imperial game of pantheonic religion being played again today. So, once again, the only efficient way in which to establish a world empire, is through reducing certified religious beliefs to the legal status of chartered entities of a pantheon. The essential result, is to base imperial military strategy on the playing against one another, of cultures and cults from inside and outside the existing imperial form of pantheon. Thus, the normal, often-repeated form of collapse of great empires into new dark ages, occurs as the lawful consequence of the attempts to manage a form of imperial role through the devices of a managed pantheon, as is being done today.
The influence of Kant's denial of the existence of truth, is at the core of today's global problem of this sort. The study of Kant's argument and influences, as a model for such forms of existentialism as that of the Nazi Martin Heidegger, is also an efficient guide to study of the way in which a converging hostility to truthfulness springs, more or less inevitably, from empiricism in general, or American pragmatism of William James and John Dewey in particular.
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