Observe & Retort

Recently I was watching a docu-series on cults and extreme religions in America and I was watching the sixth episode, which is documenting the Twelve Tribes (Est ~1977) it dawned on me that there is the potential that these extreme off-shoots of mainstream religion might point us to the inevitability that all religions are founded in similar circumstance, and are as a result, complete malarkey. We could propose a couple of things that I think would be difficult for anyone to refute. The first is, like I said above, a small group of individuals within a culture took the premise of their tribes spiritual mythology to a fundamentalist extreme. This likely happened many times, but one particular iteration possessed the right recipe to endure long enough for elders of that society to realize that the religious sect in question possessed the tools that could effectively govern a population with rules rooted in morality. The second proposal is that the resurfacing of fundamentalist sects thr...

Indoctrination is essentially a process in which people are convinced through some form of persuasion to adopt a new set of ideas. To indoctrinate a people it is best to start with their children, just ask Hitler. Watching this video by Horowitz on the Left's war on Christianity I realized the hypocrisy in what liberals are doing to our children through public schools. In the latter third of the 20th century there was a lawsuit that effectively took prayer out of public schools. The suite was over a 23-word prayer that basically read; God please bless and look over us students, parents, teachers, and all of America, Amen.  The ruling was based on the pretext of our constitution that prevents the implementation of a national religion. Many on the left will say that Christians trying to get information on the Bible, let alone prayer, into schools are trying to institutionalize their (the Christian) ideology, therefor forcing their beliefs on all of our kids. This the Left claims is...

Occasionally I read an article that just resonates with me and some of the thoughts I've been having regarding our Western society. Typically I link to them and comment on parts, this whole article is a great read, please check it out  HERE Favorite quotes: "In this age where every bit of information is at our fingertips, it seems we've never been so ignorant; as if the omnipresence of information has inoculated us against wisdom. " "So many today don't speak of truth, they speak of "my truth."  But when everyone has their own truth, there is no wisdom.  They don't even speak about religion, they call it "spirituality" which is simply like a GPS which tells you you're always exactly where you're supposed to be, which, to me, doesn't seem like much help.  And the only surviving "sin" is believing that sin exists at all."