Archive for May 2008
Beware the Psychopath, My Son
I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn’t seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.
The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. . . .
American Christian Statolatry
Christianity in Eclipse
by Laurence M. Vance
The Christian’s attitude toward the state, its leaders, its military, its wars, its imperialism, and its interventionism should be a no-brainer: contempt, disdain, disgust, revulsion, abhorrence, repugnance, loathing – take your pick. Yet, among Christians one continues to find some of the greatest apologists for the state, its leaders, its institutions, and its evil doings.
Biblical Christianity is becoming eclipsed by state worship. . . .
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About: Statolatry
Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statolatry
Statolatry, which combines idolatry with the state, first appeared in Giovanni Gentile’s Doctrine of Fascism, published in 1931 under Mussolini’s name. The same year, an encyclical by Pope Pius XI criticized Fascist Italy as developing “a pagan worship of the state” which it called “statolatry.
Ludwig von Mises’ Omnipotent Government (1944)
The term was also popularized and explained by Ludwig von Mises in his 1944 work Omnipotent Government. Statolatry is literally worship of the State analogous to idolatry as worship of idols. It asserts that the glorification and aggrandizement of ‘State’ or ‘Nation’ is the object of all legitimate human aspiration at the expense of all else, including personal welfare and independent thought. Expansion of the power and influence of one’s State is to be achieved, if necessary, through aggressive war and colonial adventures (i.e. imperialism). It far exceeds the patriotism of those who recognize the rights of people other than themselves to self-determination, and might best be described as super-patriotism or nationalistic chauvinism.
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Statolatry
