tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7785786801472110696..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Sauron Himself Is But An Emissary - Part IIAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-80647944446698728682009-06-30T16:50:07.513-04:002009-06-30T16:50:07.513-04:00> It is also a cautionary lesson about those th...> It is also a cautionary lesson about those things that conservatives believe to promote good – faith, patriotism, free markets, free speech, free anything. Any of these can also be twisted into something destructive.<br /><br />.<br /><br />I've long been putting it thusly:<br /><br />There is no idea conceivable by the Mind of Man -- not love nor honor nor kindness nor decency nor duty nor loyalty -- <b>not <i>anything</i></b> -- which some <i>idiot</i> can't take and run <b>straight off the end of the earth with it...</b>OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88748921163585373472009-06-28T22:32:35.452-04:002009-06-28T22:32:35.452-04:00I was once trying to buy a house from a professor ...I was once trying to buy a house from a professor at Eden Theological Seminary (eden.edu) and, while talking to him about this & that, he told me that he regarded <i>both</i> Communism and Capitalism as Christain heresies.<br /><br />Since he lumped Capitalism in, he kind o' piqued my ire so I didn't ask for details. But I wish I had; it would have been interesting to hear, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51959496368998530892009-06-11T22:15:26.866-04:002009-06-11T22:15:26.866-04:00Brent - I hear you, and will keep that in mind as ...Brent - I hear you, and will keep that in mind as part of my research when I return to the historical angle.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29075332925722064352009-06-09T23:10:44.171-04:002009-06-09T23:10:44.171-04:00Add to that, the arrogance of the humanists and th...Add to that, the arrogance of the humanists and their war against medieval civilization (language, learning, customs, laws) -- C.S. Lewis describes this really well in the first chapter of his History of English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-77416266634691147002009-06-09T23:10:03.414-04:002009-06-09T23:10:03.414-04:00I think it's useful to compare the groups that...I think it's useful to compare the groups that the medieval Church confronted repeatedly, with the strains that make up modern liberalism: the millenarians, the perfectionists, the gnostics. They do all seem to burst their bonds in the English Civil War.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-69776756605522940732009-06-09T23:01:55.088-04:002009-06-09T23:01:55.088-04:00Mencius Moldbug claims that the Independents and P...Mencius Moldbug claims that the Independents and Presbyterians in the English Civil War were the origin of modern liberalism.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-31301289702123025632009-06-09T20:55:23.515-04:002009-06-09T20:55:23.515-04:00"perfectibility of people"---a good phra..."perfectibility of people"---a good phrase.<br /><br />We know people aren't perfectible....but we never stop trying. We always think there's a better way to do things, and if we could just find that perfect "method" everything would be just peachy.<br /><br />Is it human nature to strive for things we have no way of achieving?terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399706958844399216noreply@blogger.com