Why Does Democracy Need to be Defended?

[pbrower2a]

(09-28-2021, 09:45 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:

(09-28-2021, 09:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Jesus was a Social Justice Warrior. He opposed the corruption. hypocrisy, and inequity of His time. I could imagine Him coming back to see what people have done with His Ministry, and much of it isn't good.If you claim to be a Christian and still support Donald Trump, then you support someone that I best describe as someone of a wide variety of deep sins. You probably just saw how I saw a large number of televangelists. The Prosperity Gospel is a hideous fraud utterly inconsistent with Jesus' Teaching; I look at the Sermon on the Mount (which is the essence of Christianity, and you can throw out practically the rest of the New Testament as fluff) and see a message that the purpose of a Christian is to bring dignity to those in hardship.

Knocking down the tables of the money-changers and driving the cattle out of the Temple are clearly deeds of a Social Justice Warrior.

I'm not for prosperity gospel.  My focus is more on social conservatism, not fiscal. SJWS focus on things like having pride parades on Blues Clues, wanting to ban religion, saying guns are bad, shouting at people for "cultural appropriation" or celebrating porn or abortions. They don't care about the working class either unless you mean poor barista with a prestigious degree and shares the same views as them.

Good on the Prosperity Gospel. It's more of a confidence game than any valid expression of Judeo-Christian values. The Bible is not a guide to getting rich quick.

Most people are mixtures of liberal and conservative values. I have no problem with a LGBT Pride parade. If you don't want to see it, then stay away from it. This is like saying that if you don't like to see automobile graveyards, then stay away from them. I know of nobody who wants to ban religion or any specific religion, although a religious cult that would do a human sacrifice,  disseminate Sarin gas upon unsuspecting people,  or turn a jetliner into a missile to crash it into tall buildings needs be broken up for much the same reason that any criminal conspiracy deserves to be liquidated. OK, guns really are bad, whether one is a motel clerk facing an armed robber or"Bambi" facing a hunter... there are countries that honor civil liberties well without offering any "gun rights".

Cultural appropriation? We all do it. Lasagna, chimichangas, kielbasa, gyros, curry anything, and dim sum are all cultural appropriation. Got a bonsai tree or a Japanese-style print? Likewise.  Did you recently listen to a Puccini or Wagner opera? Likewise. Most of us pick and choose what it means to be an American by culture.

Porn is pitiable, and most abortions involve someone in trouble because of the pregnancy. If a ten-year-old girl is pregnant, then she needs an abortion. If the abortion would protect the life of the mother, then such is ethically mandatory.

And, yes, Most Americans not in the working class disregard or devalue it. It is unfortunate, but the economic elites wax fattest when they can sweat working people the most. If you think that working-class culture is so wonderful, just remember that the working class is potentially as bigoted as any, and that many people are working class because they live in 'loser' cultures that deprecate learning and promote superstition. I am not convinced of the superiority of any class. Perhaps because of the character of the regime (Nazi Germany is the prime example) the working class  is less culpable of receiving privileges from the regime or doing the dirty work. Working people get the shaft from austerity programs of elitist economics that right-wing pols (who typically brag that they can make the Tough Decisions -- sociopaths find making tough decisions that hurt others while getting them fame and glory very easily) impose. Sure... raise taxes on them and give tax breaks to the elites, privatize the public sector in sweetheart deals with monopolistic gougers, have wars for profit in which workers become the cannon fodder on the ground that $crewing them is good for those who own the assets.

Don't ask me to accede to superstition or deprecate learning. The tragedy isn't that we have well-educated machinists or truck drivers, but instead that we have over-educated people devoid of any marketable skills who find old copies of writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao and style themselves as revolutionaries. (It would be better if many such people went to hairdressing school and learned how to style hair... not a great career, but one that allows one a living), I have my theory that American Big Business fends off a proletarian revolution by snapping up large numbers of educated people and puts them in bureaucratic roles at which they are paid enough to support a house on a mortgage, a late-model automobile purchased new, nice clothes, and an expensive vacation every five years or so. We should be treating education not so much as a means for getting ahead in life as in knowing how to live.

Most importantly, there is more to life than sex, drugs, mass low culture, bureaucratic power, material comfort, and blatant ostentation. People should know that such a word as luxury indicates a rip-off and that prestige is a sham.