Why has the word "organized" become a term of abuse (as in "organized religion") when nature itself is incredibly organized (i.e. organic)?
How, in the face of everything we know about human nature, did individualism and private autonomy become absolute values?
Why do we still celebrate the age of sexual libertinism when we find ourselves less happy, less loved, and more damaged than ever before?
When did a thing's ancient pedigree go from being a sign of abiding truth to a scarlet letter of obsolescence?
Why is the first response to hypocrisy always to spurn the virtue that the hypocrite failed to practice?
Why do people reject faith and obedience in the name of individualism, only to live and speak in lockstep conformity with a zeitgeist which long ago ceased to offer anything new?
Catholics won't be proud of their faith until they're released from the technicolor fantasy that the highest freedom is the consumeristic accumulation of options.
How, in the face of everything we know about human nature, did individualism and private autonomy become absolute values?
Why do we still celebrate the age of sexual libertinism when we find ourselves less happy, less loved, and more damaged than ever before?
When did a thing's ancient pedigree go from being a sign of abiding truth to a scarlet letter of obsolescence?
Why is the first response to hypocrisy always to spurn the virtue that the hypocrite failed to practice?
Why do people reject faith and obedience in the name of individualism, only to live and speak in lockstep conformity with a zeitgeist which long ago ceased to offer anything new?
Catholics won't be proud of their faith until they're released from the technicolor fantasy that the highest freedom is the consumeristic accumulation of options.
I think you answered your own question there...
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Ummm, so, what is wrong with individualism? I don't see how that's a bad thing, for your argument or mine. And PRIVATE AUTONOMY? Free will is pretty much a human right, last time I checked - oh, wait you're arguing for religion. That's why those values are bad. Of course. How could I be so silly? (And free will has always been present in human nature, ya know.)
"Why do we still celebrate the age of sexual libertinism when we find ourselves less happy, less loved, and more damaged than ever before?"
I may not be a happy person, but I know for certain that sexual libertinism is not the cause of my unhappiness. If it were not for that, there would be even MORE sexism in the world than there already is, and I would be
...even less happy.
“When did a thing's ancient pedigree go from being a sign of abiding truth to a scarlet letter of obsolescence?”
An ancient “pedigree” is not proof of something’s legitimacy or worth. Unless, of course, you think that noble and royal titles mean that those people are better than the rest of us, simply because they have “pedigrees.”
“Why do people reject faith and obedience in the name of individualism, only to live and speak in lockstep conformity with a zeitgeist which long ago ceased to offer anything new?
Conformity is one thing. Obediance is COMPLETELY different. Conforming is something almost no one can avoid, because almost no one is original in what they do, say, etc. But conformity is not obediance. Obediance is following without question. One can conform and question, because one CHOOSES to conform.