Re: TEA PARTY conservatism

<<<Now, it is time to, in turn, replace monotheism, replace it with
non-
theism.>>>

Didn't the Soviet Union try this ?? How did that work out for ya ??

Hey didn't the world also feed that "million starving people in
Africa" ??

Don't we now have tens of millions of starving people in Africa...
half of them diseased and spreading it around like good socialists ??

How's that working out ???

When the individual effort of man is NOT well rewarded and the the
rewards are "spread around" to the general population through no
effort of their own civilization will end because there will be no
more great advances.

On Mar 8, 9:35 am, charles <charlesbrou...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have you lived long enough to notice how the whole political climate
> has shifted much to the Right since the great depression?  It happens
> to be a characteristic of civilizations to gradualy return to the old
> faith and other conservatism when the divided ideology that bonds it
> together divides into splinters and grows weak.  People then turn back
> because others become disollute, materialistic, addicted and generally
> less moral.  People feel regressing back  is "the only way to save
> us."
>
> They happen to be wrong, however, in that mankind cannot go backword
> for long.  We have to move foreward.  The world's population keeps
> growing and we get more and more crowded and press more and more on
> the Earth's diminishing resources.  We cannot retreat from such
> problems.  As with us always in the whole course of human
> civilization, when things get this bad, we adopted a new world-view
> and way of thinking, one that united us and enabled us to cooperate
> together and build a new civilization---in other words, to move
> foreward, not backward.
>
> Yes, it has happened often.  A good exampe is when monotheism replaced
> the old polytheism of Ancient Rome and brought us Western
> civilization.
>
> Now, it is time to, in turn, replace monotheism, replace it with non-
> theism.  We are now in the stage where such a new world-view and way
> of thinking is being shaped, one that promotes birth-control to limit
> overpopulation, promotes racial equality, provides a better set of
> moral standards, promotes science, and is dedicated to the colonizing
> of space.
>
> brough at civilization-overview dot com

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