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Heyjude's avatar

The Closing of the Western Mind 2.0. Same cause as the first version: a religion/cult seized control of Western Civilization. It will produce the same result: The Dark Ages.

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MC's avatar

Well said, I haven't considered it in these terms but you're right.

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Terence G Gain's avatar

This is an anti-religious cult.

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MC's avatar

In fairness to Terence, I've noticed that some of my San Francisco friends make rash assumptions about Catholics; that they all hate gay people, etc. It's another example of how balkanization and separation from each other makes people unreasonably suspicious of each other's motives.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Maybe but it is also the rankest hypocrisy.

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MC's avatar

Maybe, humans love to contradict their own moral codes. I think the bigger problem is walling ourselves off from each other. Most folks not all that different in our day to day lives, but distance is a breeding ground for unwarranted suspicion.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I disagree thst humans love to contradict their own moral codes. They may fail to abide by them but willfully contradicting a strongly defined moral code is a recipe for unhappiness or worse. Perhaps the problem is the weakness of the moral code of too many.

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jt's avatar

Moral code? Sorry, but that would involve people engaging in the possibility of being judged in some fashion.

IMO, that ship has sailed for two generations at the very least. Mebbe from Boomers on. ICBW and, as You know, it isn't everybody.

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Heyjude's avatar

They arenтАЩt anti religion, just anti traditional religion. They have created their own secular religion.

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MC's avatar

Religion has just as much capacity for closing the mind as any progressive ideology; witness modern Iran or the medieval papacy. The enemy isn't atheism, it's close-mindedness.

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