| Submit your comments on this article |
| Olde Tyme Religion |
| The Massacre of Morality, A Parable For Our Age |
| 2023-11-28 |
| [WordOnFire] There was once a time when morally serious people used morally serious words—words like "freedom," "equality," "justice," and "goodness"—to engage in morally serious debate, a debate that was premised on the shared belief that objective truth was possible, if painfully complex, to identify and abide by. But then came the liberators—that’s what they called themselves, though they had other designs in mind—who began announcing, first from university lecture halls, then in public squares, and eventually in boardrooms, that these "values" were nothing more than the machinations of hate-filled, power-ravenous religious men whose only desire was to control the minds and bodies of the people by preventing them from being their true selves. That message, it turns out, sold itself, and so the people turned their backs on those once-hallowed words, setting off in pursuit of money and pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, all expediently redefined as "their dreams." The liberators, however, were shrewd; they knew that those words, still preserved in the books of old, remained a threat to their goals. And they understood that, though necessary, it wouldn’t be enough simply to destroy the old books by sprinkling them with ideological poison ("These are the tools of your oppressors, dear ones. Stay away!"). There would also need to be new books, books that not only contained new words—words like "heteronormativity" and "cisgendered" and "anti-racism" and "cultural appropriation"—but also books (and this is the twist of devilish genius) that had all the old words, as well, but now with entirely new meanings. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 ...but also books (and this is the twist of devilish genius) that had all the old words, as well, but now with entirely new meanings. Reminds me of Secretary Lenin changing meeting minutes. |
| Posted by: Punky Ghibelline7615 2023-11-28 16:45 |