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Men's Daily
Steve Farrell
July 25, 2007
. . . Of all the popular takes on religion in law in America that miss the mark, none is more pervasive, none strike closer to the root, than the worship of the Humanist God of Democracy the Almighty Self.
The fall into the trap of extreme individualism, or self-worship, is ever one of the dangers of social democracy. And as God, religion and traditional morality are pushed to the fringes by socialist revolutionaries and reformers of every stripe, this new God becomes democracys natural by-product, indeed, its most distinguishable feature.
One need not be a prophet to perceive that we live in a time when everyone has [turned] to his own way to the worship of his own individualistic idols. (1)
We know those idols. They are wealth as the beginning and the end, higher education, political power, physical pleasure, endless entertainment, incessant idleness, and feral freedom or that freedom that rejects all laws, religious principles and social customs that rebuke or check self-interest, pride and boundless pleasure.
Collectively, we know these idols as the God of Self, and the central conveyor of its catechism as public education (2), for generally what is taught there advocates just such a god.
It is in Americas schools and universities that we find feel good curriculums that focus on promotion rather than performance, condoms rather than chastity, abortion rather than accountability, student choice rather than parental consent . . .
There we find school psychologists and administrators whose job it is to ensure that those youth engaged in any of the above are never burdened with guilt; and likewise, there we find those who labor to defund any club, fire any teacher, ban any book, and scorn as homophobic any person who contends sex is for husband and wife only, because it might occasion guilt in the transgressor (Heaven forbid!), and intolerance and violence in everyone else . . .
There we find children and young adults being taught about a strange kind of equality, one that takes (as but one example) the tried and true equal right for each to express their moral and political views in public, one tyrannical step beyond common sense, to the demand that every man, woman and childs beliefs be treated as equally valid . . .
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/07/25/self-worship-the-god-of-democracy/
Steve Farrell
July 25, 2007
. . . Of all the popular takes on religion in law in America that miss the mark, none is more pervasive, none strike closer to the root, than the worship of the Humanist God of Democracy the Almighty Self.
The fall into the trap of extreme individualism, or self-worship, is ever one of the dangers of social democracy. And as God, religion and traditional morality are pushed to the fringes by socialist revolutionaries and reformers of every stripe, this new God becomes democracys natural by-product, indeed, its most distinguishable feature.
One need not be a prophet to perceive that we live in a time when everyone has [turned] to his own way to the worship of his own individualistic idols. (1)
We know those idols. They are wealth as the beginning and the end, higher education, political power, physical pleasure, endless entertainment, incessant idleness, and feral freedom or that freedom that rejects all laws, religious principles and social customs that rebuke or check self-interest, pride and boundless pleasure.
Collectively, we know these idols as the God of Self, and the central conveyor of its catechism as public education (2), for generally what is taught there advocates just such a god.
It is in Americas schools and universities that we find feel good curriculums that focus on promotion rather than performance, condoms rather than chastity, abortion rather than accountability, student choice rather than parental consent . . .
There we find school psychologists and administrators whose job it is to ensure that those youth engaged in any of the above are never burdened with guilt; and likewise, there we find those who labor to defund any club, fire any teacher, ban any book, and scorn as homophobic any person who contends sex is for husband and wife only, because it might occasion guilt in the transgressor (Heaven forbid!), and intolerance and violence in everyone else . . .
There we find children and young adults being taught about a strange kind of equality, one that takes (as but one example) the tried and true equal right for each to express their moral and political views in public, one tyrannical step beyond common sense, to the demand that every man, woman and childs beliefs be treated as equally valid . . .
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/07/25/self-worship-the-god-of-democracy/
