HUMANISM'S BLOODLESS COUP

 HUMANISM'S BLOODLESS COUP

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegone.org - Friday, Sep. 30, 2016

 

Ref: Excerpts from AFA Journal. October 2016 - www.afajournal.org

 

Preface: Imagine a nation that has no belief in God, Christianity and the Ten Commandments. This is what the Leftists and the Progressives in America have accomplished and promoted during the Obama Presidency. Who are these people and what values do they want us to believe in? (ghk)

 

    "Relativism is the view that there is objective knowledge only of facts, but not values," said Thomas G. West, professor of politics at Hillsdale College and author of Vindicating the Founders, "Science can know the truth about the material world, but it cannot tell us how to live."...

 

No Human Nature:  "This concept of relativism was not only aimed at religion but also included political philosophies such as those that motivated the founders. These principles were also considered relativistic - and open to outright dismissal.

 

    After all, if evolution is true, then there is no God - or at least there is no need for consulting Him when considering how Americans should order their governing principles. If there is no God, then there is no natural law for which human beings should look. There is simply nothing there to see - or understand."

 

    Now let's listen to "Dewey" the Godfather of Progressivism

 

"This string of ideas led to two problematic conclusions. The first is that there is no such thing as human nature. In fact, Dewey, whom West calls "The most influential founder of modern liberal theory," ridiculed the idea that human beings had a nature. "Dewey expands on the idea that human beings have no nature; they are born as empty vessels, as nothing in themselves," West said. ... Their cultural and historical surroundings create them, according to Dewey. "[S]ocial arrangements, laws, institutions ... are means of creating individuals." said Dewey.... For progressives like Dewey, government would become the incubator and director of human nature."

 

"The second problematic conclusion ... was the progressive denial of natural human rights. "There can be no natural rights because there is nothing of any value that human beings possess by nature that they could be said to have a right to," West explained. Then he cited this startling statement by Dewey" "Natural rights and natural liberties exist only in the kingdom of mythological social zoology."  Spalding characterized the progressive view of rights in chilling terms. "Liberty no longer would be a condition based on human nature and the exercise of God-given natural rights," he said, "but a changing concept whose evolution was guided by government."

 

"These progressive ideas transformed American politics, West insisted. "It was a total rejection in practice, of the principles, of the principles and policies on which America had been founded and on the basis of which the Civil War had been fought and won a few years earlier." he said."

 

COMMENTARY

With reference to the above,the beliefs of Dewey are nonsense. Common sense believers ought to have ridiculed Dewey's beliefs as hogwash years ago. And we let them take over the country with this hogwash. The new secular morality includes the following: 1) Entrenched Political Correctness 2) In the war against ISIS do not refer to them as Islamic terrorists. It's like don't call the Nazis, Nazis during World War II. 3) Pass Obamacare with deliberate outright lies, like you can keep your own doctor and save $1500. yearly. Forced belief in falsehoods is the new humanist morality. (ghk)

 

George H. Kubeck