Tent revivals did not attract the most sophisticated and learned members of society, though, like this current insanity does. And it certainly did not spread everywhere, all at once.
We are purposely being divided by race, especially, for about a decade now. There is a chart floating around indicating the number of times buzz words like "…
Tent revivals did not attract the most sophisticated and learned members of society, though, like this current insanity does. And it certainly did not spread everywhere, all at once.
We are purposely being divided by race, especially, for about a decade now. There is a chart floating around indicating the number of times buzz words like "white supremacy", "white nationalism", etc appear in Wapo, NYT, and other influential journals. It exploded about a decade ago, shortly after the financial system nearly imploded. Definitely not a coincidence, imo. Even justified killings of blacks at the hands of police are amplified and used to stoke racial hatred. Something very big is going on.
This is just the usual cycle of history. Feels big and new because we're in it rather than reading about it.
And them sophisticated and learned types? As gato says:
"the anxious and insecure seek out powerful patrons/ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” when you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate; again environment as surrogate for self."
So ALL of academia, ALL of medicine, ALL of science is led by insecure, weak-minded individuals? Implausible. When did that happen before?
Pusillanimity is a more reasonable explanation, but that does not explain where this poisonous ideology sprang forth. And ideologies come from somewhere.
Elites flocked to Communism a century ago. It flattered them into thinking that mankind, led by sophisticates and guided by reason and science, could create a utopia. The opening section of the book they held in contempt would have disabused them of that notion. "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything."--Chesterton.
I know you discount it outright, but many people reason their way to faith in God.
I discount no one reasoning their own way to faith in whatever their concept of God might be.
I have less respect for anyone who needs to use the words and rituals prescribed to them by a cult instead of using his own. That is precisely the focus of gato's post here. Being afraid to think for oneself. Being afraid to discover that no other human being has any better handle on The Truth than one does oneself.
The medieval institutions that grew into the classical universities still educating students today were founded by cults and any student or faculty member with the stones to dissent from orthodoxy usually ended up badly--or founding their own competing version of Official Truth.
There is no new thing. There's every version of the usual thing.
Tent revivals did not attract the most sophisticated and learned members of society, though, like this current insanity does. And it certainly did not spread everywhere, all at once.
We are purposely being divided by race, especially, for about a decade now. There is a chart floating around indicating the number of times buzz words like "white supremacy", "white nationalism", etc appear in Wapo, NYT, and other influential journals. It exploded about a decade ago, shortly after the financial system nearly imploded. Definitely not a coincidence, imo. Even justified killings of blacks at the hands of police are amplified and used to stoke racial hatred. Something very big is going on.
This is just the usual cycle of history. Feels big and new because we're in it rather than reading about it.
And them sophisticated and learned types? As gato says:
"the anxious and insecure seek out powerful patrons/ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” when you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate; again environment as surrogate for self."
CS Lewis in a nutshell.
So ALL of academia, ALL of medicine, ALL of science is led by insecure, weak-minded individuals? Implausible. When did that happen before?
Pusillanimity is a more reasonable explanation, but that does not explain where this poisonous ideology sprang forth. And ideologies come from somewhere.
Elites flocked to Communism a century ago. It flattered them into thinking that mankind, led by sophisticates and guided by reason and science, could create a utopia. The opening section of the book they held in contempt would have disabused them of that notion. "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything."--Chesterton.
I know you discount it outright, but many people reason their way to faith in God.
I discount no one reasoning their own way to faith in whatever their concept of God might be.
I have less respect for anyone who needs to use the words and rituals prescribed to them by a cult instead of using his own. That is precisely the focus of gato's post here. Being afraid to think for oneself. Being afraid to discover that no other human being has any better handle on The Truth than one does oneself.
The medieval institutions that grew into the classical universities still educating students today were founded by cults and any student or faculty member with the stones to dissent from orthodoxy usually ended up badly--or founding their own competing version of Official Truth.
There is no new thing. There's every version of the usual thing.
Ecclesiastes 1:9. Human nature does not change either.
Peace to you, SCA.
I been saying that about human nature since I first began commenting anywhere. The myths of all peoples were crafted to illustrate the truth of that.
Peace to you too.
Love that word! Lol
To the tent revivalists credit, at least they didn’t hold themselves,—nor their ilk— as God.
They thought they knew who God was.
Bingo! GREAT POINT!!!!