In many ways, the evolution of puritan to UCC, particularly in the northeastern United States, is a precursor to the woke age we are in today. When a strong moral base is gone, social contagion and human depravity rushes in.
I was tempted to say something like that, but I thought that it would upset people and prevent them from seriously addressing my question. Both leftism and these supposed churches seem to be in an endless basically random spiral. Of course, there are people who don't believe it's 'random', but the positions that are adopted seem to be arbitrary - in that, if you looked at leftists 100 years ago, you would have no idea they would be supporting transgenderism and war today.
It’s pretty ironic. For much of my early life I was a hardcore libertarian. While my family has been religious, I’ve never been religious, and deism is not an important part—not any part—of my life.
Today, I firmly believe that we need something like a Catholic church to help maintain order and cultural stability.
Human-centric leftism decays into nihilism and self-destruction.
Human-centric leftism decays into nihilism and self-destruction.
Almost seems like some sort of civlizational entropy. Of all the possible states that a society can have, a free and rational one is not inevitable and certainly not the most likely - like 'order' is not the most likely state of matter, so order tends towards the increase of disorder.
I used to be a New Atheist, and I'm still an atheist, but it seems that people simply cannot be left to figure things out on their own.
I was tempted to say something like that, but I thought that it would upset people and prevent them from seriously addressing my question. Both leftism and these supposed churches seem to be in an endless basically random spiral. Of course, there are people who don't believe it's 'random', but the positions that are adopted seem to be arbitrary - in that, if you looked at leftists 100 years ago, you would have no idea they would be supporting transgenderism and war today.
Very good point about leftists 100 years ago.
It’s pretty ironic. For much of my early life I was a hardcore libertarian. While my family has been religious, I’ve never been religious, and deism is not an important part—not any part—of my life.
Today, I firmly believe that we need something like a Catholic church to help maintain order and cultural stability.
Human-centric leftism decays into nihilism and self-destruction.
Almost seems like some sort of civlizational entropy. Of all the possible states that a society can have, a free and rational one is not inevitable and certainly not the most likely - like 'order' is not the most likely state of matter, so order tends towards the increase of disorder.
I used to be a New Atheist, and I'm still an atheist, but it seems that people simply cannot be left to figure things out on their own.