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Originally Posted by tim6624
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But don't worry, many are becoming aware of this secular, hedonist, elitist paradigm and the system will collapse under its own weight. I hope the Islamic radicals continue to pressure and attack our liberal paradigm...the elitisrs can only maintain this "tolerance" agenda for so long until the masses force change. This recession has woken up many apathetic Americans, so all you liberal elites and neocons in your ivory towers better start making contingency plans.
That is a typical response uttered by liberal, secular humanists.
If somebody makes an argument that you don't have the intellectual capacity to rebut, resort to ad Hominem attacks, poison the well by labeling the opinion/arguer as extreme/radical, and avoid addressing the argument altogether. What a great formula for "tolerance" and "understanding". It looks like government schools are accomplishing their mission.
But don't worry, many are becoming aware of this secular, hedonist, elitist paradigm and the system will collapse under its own weight. I hope the Islamic radicals continue to pressure and attack our liberal paradigm...the elitisrs can only maintain this "tolerance" agenda for so long until the masses force change. This recession has woken up many apathetic Americans, so all you liberal elites and neocons in your ivory towers better start making contingency plans.
So you insult me and call me an elitist and back up your assaults with more insults? Please, its paranoid morons like you that will only worsen the situation by starting a holy war over imaginary friends.
Secularism is the only thing that can prevent the depravities of Abrahamic religion. Secularism is the only thing that separates Europe from the Middle East, without it Protestants and Catholics would be killing each other like they did 300-500 years ago, burning witches, and seeking to destroy all other Non-Christian cultures like they did in the New World.
Abandoning secularism would put Radical Christianity on the same footing as Radical Islam, in place of the neutered form in which Christianity exists now.
Secularism is the only thing that can prevent the depravities of Abrahamic religion. Secularism is the only thing that separates Europe from the Middle East, without it Protestants and Catholics would be killing each other like they did 300-500 years ago, burning witches, and seeking to destroy all other Non-Christian cultures like they did in the New World.
Abandoning secularism would put Radical Christianity on the same footing as Radical Islam, in place of the neutered form in which Christianity exists now.
Which of your randomly selected classes did you get all that from?
Secularism doesn't have the resources to resist the encroachments of Islam. Here's why:
1. Man is incurably religious, and secularism creates a religious void that Islam is eager to fill.
2. The secularist dogma of religious pluralism gives Islam a foothold in the West.
3. The secularist dogma of non-discrimination makes it impossible to resist Islam on religious grounds.
4. Secularists in historically Christian nations make common cause with Islam because it dilutes Christian influence.
5. Secularism is a worldly, hedonistic ideology. When Islamists gain enough power to present secularists with a choice - "convert, or lose all of your worldly advantages!" - secularists will convert.
Incurably religious or incurably gullible and superstitious? Whichever, the sheer numbers make a strong case for one or the other.
But some of us are fortunate enough to have never come down with the disease.
Pilgrim is right. Just look at all of the "personal rights" the secular progressives have created; how they are worship as inviolate. In fact, the same type - minus the violence so far - of rage at perceived denial or offense (Chick-fil-A as a recent example), is evident in both the Muslim religion and the quasi-religion of secular progressivism.
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Originally Posted by burdell
Distorting the meaning of words does not make your argument any more watertight. Secularism is a substitute for nothing, it is what it is.
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