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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Mary Grabar :: Townhall.com Columnist
Atheistic Democracy: An oxymoron
by Mary Grabar
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Nonetheless, even as the systems presumably march on toward perfection, anarchists, who believe that they have the answer stir and fume. So in spite of the fact that virtually all conservative faculty members and texts have been eliminated in English departments, “resist and refuse” posters grace the doors of securely entrenched tenured radical English professors who make up hiring and curriculum committees. Somehow injustices still remain! And these radicals call for even more drastic changes, and finally anarchy. The fact that English professors cannot just stick to their jobs of teaching about the great literary traditions is evidence of the overweening hubris of the atheistic mind.

As the youth, taught by these radical atheists, search and search and look into the void, they find that they—in spite of the arguments of the atheists—have a spiritual need. Schooled in relativism and multiculturalism, they turn wildly to such things as paganism or radical Islam to fill a vacuum. I’ve had a student tell me about pagan rituals involving the drinking of human blood. Indeed, stupid atheists are responsible for taking away the spiritual bulwarks against internal jihad in our schools.

The atheist prides himself on his feelings of fairness and empathy but refuses to acknowledge the culture from which he has inherited these attributes. Such notions are as prevalent as the air we breath (thanks to Christians), but at one time in history they were not. At one time, women could be stoned to death and babies and the elderly left exposed to die. To what will the atheist appeal when we dispense with such notions?

But as I stated in my previous column, atheists are stupid. As George Santayana said, “Wisdom is the first philosophy, both in time and in authority, and to collect facts or to chop logic would be idle and would add no dignity to the mind, unless that mind possessed a clear humanity and could discern what facts and logic are good for and what not.” Well, the atheists are smart in a limited way. They can function at their technical jobs. But they cannot see or think outside of that box. They cannot do philosophy. They are incapable of seeing that their empirical method is really just a limited function, for limited tasks. And that its limitation comes ironically (for them) from the notion that man’s knowledge is limited. Philosophy is the larger investigation.

But because of his limited vision the atheist is incapable of seeing beyond the material world; he sees society as a giant organism. He sees it in a Darwinian manner, sees the part for the whole and does not even know that Darwin himself recognized the limits of his investigation. To atheists the world is a big organism and they fancy that they know everything because they see the world as a big organism. They do not know where this organism came from or what its ultimate purpose may be. Whether it’s the Big Bang theory or the reproductive habits of the amoeba, the atheist fancies that he has found the answer to EVERYTHING. Someone needs to clear the atheists of their confusion.

But in the meantime, atheists should not be allowed to impose their atheistic views on us and exclude all other, theistic, views as they are intent on doing. If they succeed they will eliminate democracy. They need to be reminded of the source of their own freedoms. They should be thanking God that they live in a Christian-based culture that believes in the separation of church and state and does not persecute them, and instead knows that it is through reason and the grace of God that they will be converted.

But that is not to say that we should remain silent and not counter their ignorance with facts and remind them of the Christian basis of democracy. We also need to tell them that, in spite of what they believe, they are not the wisest and they will not rule the world.

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Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in the Atlanta area. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and published fiction writer. Visit her website and get on her mailing list at marygrabar.com
 
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About Bernard Madoff
Thanks for sharing this post! Obviously, Madoff lost sight of the fact that there are some things worth more than money in this world — namely, your standing within the community. The Bible is right, "Today has enough trouble of it's own." Not having money is maybe less stressful than having it taken away. Some people obsess over hidden treasure. Dreams of finding some vast hidden treasure out on some Caribbean Island is usually a byproduct of watching too many pirate movies and not researching what actually went on with them. (Most pirate raids were for primarily two things, food and booze.) Anyway, a lot of people are looking for where Madoff stashed his loot, and they'd get some short term loans to try and find out just where it was he hid it. It is highly unlikely that he hid a treasure chest full of cash and bond coupons, so anyone looking to get out the metal detector will just have to get used to disappointment – as they won't likely find any of his hidden treasure. http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/18/buried- treasure-madoff-hide-billions/

Clarification for Synthesizer
I think you misread my conclusion regarding the coral rings.
6,000 years ago there was virtually no difference in the number of days in a year, only a small fraction of a day.
400 MILLION years ago, there were around 400 days in a year.
I realize that is an estimate based on current measurements of deceleration, but the article you cited seems (at least to me) to agree quite closely with what I intended to demonstrate.

I got my numbers from
http://bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/tides/intro.html

Generally, I tend to trust measurements of these types from NASA more than posts on google groups.

For everyone else, the point was, if the daily rings of a devonian coral display 400 days in a year, they could not have been formed in the past 6,000 / 100,000 / or even 1,000,000 years ago - They would HAVE to have been formed hundreds of millions of years ago. That is the only magnitude of time that could allow for such a large difference in the rotation speed of the earth.
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This forum seems to be winding down, so let me say that I hope to be able to share thoughts again elsewhere with Dr Who, scooternyc, Apollo, synthesizer (once I understand where you are coming from), and sjt18 (sorry I didn't get to all of your points)
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