Philosophies and Religion
the Pillars of Unbelief:
Just as we have pillars of Christian faith, the Apostles,
so are there individuals who have become Pillars of Unbelief:
Machiavelli:
1496-1527,
the inventor of “the new morality”. Niccolo Machiavelli is the father of
pragmatism, “the end justify the means” — any means that work. Machiavelli
sounds like not only the first pragmatist but the first American pragmatist!
Machiavelli
French Revolution:
1789-1799: It was a false "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity", the same motto of the Free-Masonry. Indeed the French Revolution
was the guillotine of "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity". There was no Freedom but the tyranny and terrorism of the masses,
instead of Equality there was a brutal political, social and religious
prejudice, and the Fraternity was marked by thousands of massacres and the Reign
of Terror.
It started Democracy in France. In the USA, Democracy started
13 years before, in 1776 with the Constitution of the USA.
The French Revolution history, starts from Louis XVI's marriage to Austria
Princess Marie Antoinette, through the turmoiling 10 years of revolution, the
Reign of Terror, (1789-1799), till Napoleon Bonaparte ruled France in 1799.
The Fall of Bastille indicated the start of
the French Revolution, the new era for French. The date has become the national
holiday of France, July 14, 1789. The period of the French Revolution in the
history of France covers the years between
1789 and
1799, in which
democrats
and
republicans overthrew the
absolute monarchy and the
Roman Catholic Church perforce underwent radical restructuring. While
France would
oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the
First Republic fell to a coup by
Napoleon Bonaparte, the revolution nonetheless spelled a definitive end to
the
ancient régime,
and eclipses all subsequent. The Reign of Terror resulted in the death of over
250,000 during a nine-month period; eventually it spun beyond the control of its
leaders, and Robespierre himself was executed by the very system of justice and
terror he had implemented in his effort to save the revolution.
Before 1789
there was the Royal and Louis XVI era, deposed and executed by the
Revolution, with his Wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, the face of the
Revolution, beheaded in October of 1793.
The final phase the French Revolution ends with a coup d'etat by
Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799; France returns to dictatorial rule.
Napoleon took charge with the New France
crowning himself Emperor in 1804. When he lost his final battle at Waterloo in
Belgium in 1815, the victors sent him to the faraway island of Saint Helena,
where he died in 1821. The eagle, his preferred symbol, had taken its last
flight. Links to the French Revolution
Kant:
1724-1804,
the subjectivizer of Truth . Immanuel Kant,
more than any other thinker, gave impetus to the typically modern turn
from the objective to the subjective. This may sound fine until we realize that
it meant for him the redefinition of truth itself as subjective. And the
consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. There id not objective truth
for Kant, the only truth nis waht you believe and think.The business of
religion, according to Kant, is something subjective and private, not objective
and public. Religion, in short, equals ethics. And since Christian ethics is
very similar to the ethics of most other major religions, it doesn't matter
whether you are a Christian or not; all that matters is whether you are a “good
person.”
If we ever engage in conversation about our faith with
unbelievers, we know from experience that the most common obstacle to faith
today is not any honest intellectual difficulty, like the problem of evil or the
dogma of the trinity, but the assumption that religion cannot possibly concern
facts and objective truth at all; that any attempt to convince another person
that your faith is true — objectively true, true for everyone — is unthinkable
arrogance.
Kant
Marx:
1818-1883,
the false Moses for the masses, brain of Atheistic Communism. Karl Marks
“Communist Manifesto”, “the specter of communism,” was one of the key
moments in history. Published in 1848, 'the year of revolutions' throughout
Europe, it is, like the Bible, essentially a philosophy of history, past and
future. All past history is reduced to class struggle between oppressor and
oppressed, master and slave, whether king vs. people, priest vs. parishioner,
guild- master vs. apprentice, or even husband vs. wife and parent vs. child.
Love is totally denied or ignored; competition and exploitation are the
universal rule.
Marx
Solution: Marx, like Moses, is the prophet who leads the new
Chosen People, the proletariat, out of the slavery of capitalism into the
Promised Land of communism across the Red Sea of bloody worldwide revolution and
through the wilderness of temporary, dedicated suffering for the party, the new
priesthood.
Nietzsche:
1844-1900,
the self-proclaimed “Anti-Christ”... “God is
dead,”... so is man, morality, love, freedom, hope, democracy, the soul and
ultimately, sanity. No one shows this more vividly than Nietzsche... he was an
atheist and died insane — a fate which may well await anyone who looks too long
into his books.
Nietzsche
Freud:
1856-1939,
the founder of the “sexual revolution”. Sigmund Freud's most influential
teaching is his sexual reductionism. As an atheist, Freud reduces God to a dream
of man. As a materialist, he reduces man to his body, the human body to animal
desire, desire to sexual desire and sexual desire to genital sex. All are
oversimplifications.
Freud
Sartre:
1905-1980,
the existentialist apostle of absurdity.
Jean-Paul Sartre may be the most famous atheist of the 20th century,
however, he has made atheism such a demanding, almost unendurable, experience
that few can bear it.
Comfortable atheists who read him become uncomfortable atheists,
and uncomfortable atheism is a giant step closer to God. In his own words,
“Existentialism is nothing else than an attempt to draw all the consequences of
a coherent atheistic position.” For this we should be grateful to him.
He called his philosophy “existentialism” because of the
thesis that “existence precedes essence.” What this means concretely is that
“man is nothing else than what he makes of himself.” Since there is no God to
design man, man has no blueprint, no essence. His essence or nature comes not
from God as Creator but from his own free choice.
Unfortunately, Sartre contends that this disproves God, for
if there were a God, man would be reduced to a mere artifact of God, and thus
would not be free. He constantly argues that human freedom and dignity require
atheism. His attitude is like that of a cowboy in a Western, saying to God as to
an enemy cowboy: “This town ain't big enough for both you and me. One of us has
to leave.”
Sartre
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