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Elioenai26
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Orval Hobart Mowrer, atheistic psychologist and professor of Johns Hopkins University, one time professor at Harvard, one time professor at Yale, one time President of the American Psychologist Association, who before he killed himself at the age of 75, wrote in an article, "Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils":
"For several decades we psychologists have looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and we have acclaimed our freedom from it as epic making. But at length we have discovered to be free in this sense to have the excuse of being sick rather than being sinful is to also court the danger of becoming lost. In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity. And with neurotics themselves, asking, "Who am I? What is my deepest destiny? And what does living really mean?" (“Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,” American Psychologist, 15 (1960): 301-304)
Anna Russell portrayed this sentiment in her “Psychiatric Folksong”:
"For several decades we psychologists have looked upon the whole matter of sin and moral accountability as a great incubus and we have acclaimed our freedom from it as epic making. But at length we have discovered to be free in this sense to have the excuse of being sick rather than being sinful is to also court the danger of becoming lost. In becoming amoral, ethically neutral and free, we have cut the very roots of our being, lost our deepest sense of selfhood and identity. And with neurotics themselves, asking, "Who am I? What is my deepest destiny? And what does living really mean?" (“Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,” American Psychologist, 15 (1960): 301-304)
Anna Russell portrayed this sentiment in her “Psychiatric Folksong”:
At three I had a feeling of
Ambivalence toward my brothers
And so it follows naturally
That I poisoned all my lovers.
But now I’m happy; I have learned
The lesson this has taught,
That everything I do that’s wrong
Is someone else’s fault.
This is remarkable insight into the philosophy and ideology of postmodern thought which seeks to convince us that there are no absoulutes and that there are no longer vices that should be called "sins". It is the insight into a philosophy that is wooing a culture into believing that the perpetrator is actually the victim and the victim is the perpetrator. It is the complete and total reversal of all that has been taken as self-evident for thousands of years regarding morality and it's implications on the human race.
Ambivalence toward my brothers
And so it follows naturally
That I poisoned all my lovers.
But now I’m happy; I have learned
The lesson this has taught,
That everything I do that’s wrong
Is someone else’s fault.
This is remarkable insight into the philosophy and ideology of postmodern thought which seeks to convince us that there are no absoulutes and that there are no longer vices that should be called "sins". It is the insight into a philosophy that is wooing a culture into believing that the perpetrator is actually the victim and the victim is the perpetrator. It is the complete and total reversal of all that has been taken as self-evident for thousands of years regarding morality and it's implications on the human race.
No where is this more clearly seen than in the morally relativistic landscape that is becoming increasingly pervasive throughout western culture whose impetus is a godless, meaningless, purposeless existence built upon the unsubstantiated, baseless, groundless theories of a few who have taken it upon themselves to "redefine" what it means to be human.
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