Saturday 5 October 2019

New Liberal and SJW Politics

It has been said that modern liberal thought is a christian construct.  Yes indeed. it never rose in lands that were never nominally christian.
Individual liberty was never a part of non Western cultures, nor human rights
I don't think much of G K Chesterton but he did come up with some real gems.
one of them was "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting because it has never been tried"
This is more true than i suspect even he would admit to.
What has been lost in the West is not christian faith but the hypocrisy of a society which held to some aspects of a christian worldview and thought that justified pretending to believe the Gospel of Christ. But though the gospel requires the christian worldview to make sense it is not the same thing as said world view
That being so all that remains is the heretical remnants of a Christianity gutted by removing the Holy Spirit - and this was done long long ago, long before the so called Age of Reason. Indeed the gutted remnant of the forms of faith is essentially the course of church history.
But some of these remnants have been fetishized - love, kindness, justice. When made idols or fetishes of they become twisted; and because with the reality of the Holy Spirit rejected our attempts to be loving kind and just will come up hard against our own inclinations to the contrary. This hate cruelty and injustice in all of us has to go somewhere so the New Left will vent it on their opponents, thinking it is righteous anger. It is of course nothing of the kind.
this is the liberalism of the new class of SJW fanatics.
someone said the cults were the unpaid bills of the church, that is to say the cults got traction because we the church had only own unbelief and hypocrisy and people had to go somewhere to have their real needs met
so we brought and paid for this latest SJW mania. it is the inevitable outcome of our own history

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