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    How to Resist the New Totalitarianism

    How to Resist the New Totalitarianism, prior to reviewing Helen Alvaré's new book, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution, offers this philosophical view:

    ...As early as 1970, the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce warned of a new kind of tyranny developing in the postwar culture of Western nations. This “new totalitarianism,” he said, is less vulgar but more thorough than any in the past. And it stands on three pillars. The first pillar is scientism; not science proper, but the materialist ideology that sees religion as delusional and scientific fact as the only true knowledge. Human beings and their affairs are, by nature, messy. Scientism, in practice, seeks to reorder society—and humanity itself—along more “rational,” manageable, scientific lines.

    The second pillar is eroticism: sex without taboos or boundaries. Sexual desire is a powerful instinct. Unmoored from traditional moral constraints, it becomes a solvent to break down allegedly repressive institutions like marriage and the family. It’s thus a useful tool for disrupting and restructuring society at its roots. It’s also a helpful anesthetic to ease the pain of any resulting social turmoil.

    The third pillar of Del Noce’s new totalitarianism is, ironically, progressive religious thought. Progressive theology, in practice, is a “theology of secularization.” It serves as a kind of chaplaincy to the social disruption process by providing the language for a gradual surrender of traditional morality. In the name of charity, it shifts the main focus of faith from a vertical encounter with God to horizontal social concerns, from the transcendent to the immanent—resulting in, for instance, today’s Christian confusion about homosexuality. In effect, progressive religion assists in its own extinction....
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    About the religious observation, you have a growing number of young people who call themselves "Spiritual" (whatever that means) and will go on about how much they care about the Planet, the Trees, Whales and so on. Not that they take up much personal responsibility compared to "Preaching" to others along with voting progressive of course.

    And live a personal life along the lines of "If it feels good do it" and Government should take care of me and my kids if any..............
    My Revenge will be Success! - Donald J Trump

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