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"In my opinion, the more liberated we get as a society, the better, because we get closer to who we are and away from the image driven culture that has come to dominate our lives."
Yep. And that is what all revolutionary movements are based on, namely, the freeing up of personal privileges. However, the west (Britain, Anglo-America), unlike continental Europe: is a slow delivery of progressivism i.e. it ain't happening overnight but it certainly is happening. In these nations the moral codes are corroded slowly and degenerative laws - especially infanticide - become everyday place in society. The liberalism we have become acquainted with is the comfortable rebel that delivers policy that is well intended but in hindsight produces dire outcomes.
To contrast, the French experiment with liberalism manifested so rapidly that everything was liberalized to the extreme ... The mentally insane were freed from imprisonment and innocent people were beheaded for the state - many of whom were initial supporters of the liberal movement. Of particular relevance was the fact that the liberalists of then outlawed religion ... just as they slowly denature our traditions in modern liberal movements.
Besides this, people are molded by society not because of the wonders of liberalism. 'Who we are' is significantly based on our influences and denying this would mean that the core flesh i.e. the animal human is truly who we are as this would be all that humans have in common except societal influences.
We are less mobile today than before; the majority of people in the world cannot migrate due to nationalism (also strongly associated with liberalism) and capitalist economy.
We are less mobile due to state-governed education: it was much easier to gain an education in ancient Greece than it is today. Additionally, the Greek education was universal - mathematics, philosophy, music - Today’s academic courses are scrutinized by rationalism (another "benefit of liberal politics) and our universities (once church institutions) have been hijacked by corporate agendas, so called professional learning; hence, the explosion in finance and engineering courses in the past century.
We are less mobile due to social-engineering. The establishment of constitutional government lead to the rapid development of peripheral institutions e.g. comities, agencies, public servants, policing.
Most liberal minds are probably unaware that policing was born from the liberal movement. Montesquieu, a French philosopher - was an avid libertarian and he suggested the separation of powers into branches. Although this system seems 'conservative' it was infact generated via liberal minds. Apparently, the establishment of these separated powers would 'free-up' authorities and end corruption ... nice going Monty!
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since religion doesn’t do what it's supposed to do(bring people together like Rye said) then does that make Buddhism the only possible true major religion?
Religion is mysticism, salvation and understanding ... if 'bringing people together is a consequence well it's only exterior to the former intrinsic role of religion. Anyhow, Buddhism is that main reason that Tibet was invaded by secular China ... is that bringing people together? :eek:
P.S. Catholicism is to only major religion that encourages alcohol and has massive festivals ... does that Catholicism the coolest religion? :p
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im catholic and i dont believe in a lot of the things the pope says, and it is because of people like him that ther is so much homophobia in the world
No. It’s the whole conscience of sex. Sex should be more about man and woman reproducing and developing loving families than just scoring! Our fascination with lesbian, gay, bisexuals, curio, group ... the list goes on, indicates a degenerate appeal to sex that the west has developed. This is not a good thing! I am sure people agree .. sex like any other activity should not be abused.
Homosexuality is much like usury. It is a practice that suits itself, was previously banned and was only accepted after the typical excuse ... well people already do it so we should make it legal.
If people want to be homosexual well there is nothing stopping them ... but the practice should not disintegrate an already dying tradition - marriage.
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I think hes just an old man clinging to an outdated book. In my opinion hes done his time. He was more suited for back when Christianity was more strict and fearful, when everyone attended church and you were expected to follow or have your corpse rot in hell. Again, I think hes out of date.
Firstly, the bible is not Microsoft Office '89, it doesn't go out of date. It manifests our traditions, our morals and ethics, our laws and most importantly our road to salvation.
People followed because they wanted to learn the way to salvation and understand the realms that operate beyond physical experience.
People in the past were not idiots: the academics spoke better than Shakespeare, the craftsmen built utilities to last and please the eye, the peasants produced abundantly without manufactured fertilizers or machinery.
In comparison, modern man is happy to settle as a higher form of ape, embraces mass produced technology but never masters it - by then a new fad is abusing our precious resources, and most of us never find a fulfilling occupation ... quite sad really, especially when we think we are so damn intelligent. This is reminiscent of the Roman ego obsessed with materialism and progress, but then, at least the Romans were intelligent.
Anyhow, cheers. ;)
