tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post4624748620687301762..comments2024-03-28T09:47:25.719-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: CNN continues to hate it some AmericaDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-23291668789993817002021-10-07T07:28:48.666-04:002021-10-07T07:28:48.666-04:00Much of the modern way is encouraging people down ...Much of the modern way is encouraging people down the low road away from Christian virtue. Forgiveness, love your neighbor, humility? Nope. Just the opposite in fact. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-57931984975151400862021-10-06T12:32:56.488-04:002021-10-06T12:32:56.488-04:00I am fine with looking at the good of things, assu...I am fine with looking at the good of things, assuming the good is not overwhelmed by the bad. Communism has a 100% failure rate in some of the most spectacularly murderous and terrorizing failures in history. Every time it's been tried - every. single. time. - it has resulted in oppression, squalor, poverty, misery, and as often as not, the slaughter of people by the millions in a mere handful of years. <br /><br />Sure, slavery, conquest, killing, corruption are all facts of the world in which we live. America alone has its own role to play in this sad part of the human story. But the benefits of America - freedom, prosperity, charity, repentance, a zeal to improve and strive for a more perfect union - balances out the bad that is sadly a common fact around the world. Same with Protestantism, which brought many positives despite the errors.<br /><br />But not communism. Almost nothing positive came from communism in practice, and what little positive can be found can be found in other approaches to the human condition without the constant suffering, oppression and slaughter. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-27227707618914836942021-10-06T12:23:17.331-04:002021-10-06T12:23:17.331-04:00Are you willing to look for what is good in Protes...Are you willing to look for what is good in Protestantism, despite the objective heresy? <br />Are you willing to look for what is good in Judaism -- and no red herrings allowed here, I am talking about post-Temple Judaism -- despite its explicit rejection of Christ? <br /><br />If you are willing to do EITHER, to say nothing of BOTH, you should be willing to extend the same courtesy to communism. If you are more offended by the rejection of Adam Smith than by the rejection of Christ, you are not actually a worshiper of Christ.<br /><br />Like many others, you seem to operate under the assumption that not only is everything communism bad, but everything bad is communist. Somehow Brezhnev, sexy man that he was, seduced your generation and all that followed. All bad ideas and evil impulses in America come from Karl Marx by way of Lenin and Stalin; Americans are too pure and wholesome to have come up with these things themselves.<br /><br />That's not how the real world works. Oh, you could argue that the Freemasons inspired the American Revolution, which inspired the French Revolution, which inspired Marxism, which inspired the Bolshevik Revolution -- but then you would notice that American Freemasons inspired communism, not the other way around. But the fact is that none of us need much inspiration to come up with bad ideas. Gnosticism does not so much survive as it is reinvented over and over again, because it is an appealing error that suggests itself to many different minds. The same is true of reincarnation. This is even the explanation of why "bigfoot" is reported from all around the world -- a monster that is intermediate between man and beast is an obvious idea.<br /><br />I don't think you would have much sympathy with the idea that America's decline is due to a Jewish conspiracy, in spite of the fact that Marx was Jewish. If you are a Christian, you must consider part of modern Judaism not merely mistaken, but objectively blasphemous -- but you need not from that conclude that all Jews are evil, or nothing good has been produced by Jews, or that all evils are the result of Judaism. You probably make the same distinction with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Try to be more consistent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-74748159862579420272021-10-06T08:49:58.471-04:002021-10-06T08:49:58.471-04:00Hating your neighbor has always been and will alwa...Hating your neighbor has always been and will always be the path of least resistance. You know it's wrong but it's easier than loving your neighbor. OrdinaryCatholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04393072191728326587noreply@blogger.com