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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:56:59 -0600 |
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| 59 <p>Christianity merged the Old Testament with Plato. Christianity holds truth as the highest value (regardless of whether Christianity actually is true or not). The Gospel of John makes this particularly clear. With Christianity, trustworthiness is entirely replaced by truth, which is one reason why "emet" is mistranslated.</p> | 59 <p>Christianity merged the Old Testament with Plato. Christianity holds truth as the highest value (regardless of whether Christianity actually is true or not). The Gospel of John makes this particularly clear. With Christianity, trustworthiness is entirely replaced by truth, which is one reason why "emet" is mistranslated.</p> |
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| 61 <p>Islam today shares the Christian view that truth is the highest value. But did this come from the Quran or from exposure to Christian and Greek culture? Does the Quran use truth or trustworthiness or some other concept as its core value? I am totally unqualified to answer this because I don't know Arabic. For someone to answer this, they would need to know both Arabic and philosophy. Unfortunately Islam today rejects philosophy, so the number of people currently qualified to think about this question is likely very small.</p> | 61 <p>Islam today shares the Christian view that truth is the highest value. But did this come from the Quran or from exposure to Christian and Greek culture? Does the Quran use truth or trustworthiness or some other concept as its core value? I am totally unqualified to answer this because I don't know Arabic. For someone to answer this, they would need to know both Arabic and philosophy. Unfortunately Islam today rejects philosophy, so the number of people currently qualified to think about this question is likely very small.</p> |
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| 63 <p>Now I will continue and look at another alternative to truth which is desire. In a culture with no religion, people become like animals and simply act on their desire. This is how these people makes judgements, they judge based on their desire. Christianity is based on truth and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uULqvWYXYI">this video</a> is a good explanation by a Catholic of how decaying religion causes truth to be replaced by desire. Such cultures tend to become primitive since no sustained goodness can be developed. One finds this in much of the third world.</p> | 63 <p>Now I will continue and look at another alternative to truth which is desire. In a culture with no religion, people become like animals and simply act on their desire. This is how these people makes judgements, they judge based on their desire. Christianity is based on truth and <a href="https://youtu.be/YTjEeg6AmCw">this video</a> is a good explanation by a Catholic of how decaying religion causes truth to be replaced by desire. Such cultures tend to become primitive since no sustained goodness can be developed. One finds this in much of the third world.</p> |
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| 65 <p>And the final alternative to truth that I want to discuss is degeneracy. Degeneracy is worse than desire, it is the active support of evil/badness. The most degenerate culture in the world today is American culture, so I would like to explain exactly what degeneracy is and how it happens. The value of degeneracy is badness. This is an anti-morality in the sense that self-discipline is applied to act worse than one would if one simply followed one's desires. Applying degeneracy to judgement means always judging for evil. This is what Americans do today.</p> | 65 <p>And the final alternative to truth that I want to discuss is degeneracy. Degeneracy is worse than desire, it is the active support of evil/badness. The most degenerate culture in the world today is American culture, so I would like to explain exactly what degeneracy is and how it happens. The value of degeneracy is badness. This is an anti-morality in the sense that self-discipline is applied to act worse than one would if one simply followed one's desires. Applying degeneracy to judgement means always judging for evil. This is what Americans do today.</p> |
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| 67 <p>Degeneracy can only develop in a good culture. Good people tend to be comfortable in a good culture. It is the people who have the strongest natural tendency for evil who feel most oppressed in a good culture. Good cultures tend become prosperous and tolerant over time. As tolerance increases, the first people to take advantage of this to rebel against the dominant good culture will be the most evil people. Of these people, the most intelligent will seek ways to rationalize their evil. This rationalization becomes an ideology that all evil people can get behind. This ideology will be significantly worse than the desires of average people because this ideology is specifically designed by the most evil people based on their desires. One standard feature of such ideologies is feminism which is the key means by which the ideology spreads to the rest of the population. The evil people support adultery and feminism is the means to enable adultery. Too much tolerance means that these evil people get away with adultery which causes women to become attracted to evil men for reasons I explain <a href="In_Defense_of_Feminism.html">here</a> and <a href="Human_Evolution.html">here</a>. Since average men want to attract women, they conform to what women want in men. And in this case, women will be attracted to the evil ideology so then men will also support it to attract women. And so the whole society shifts from supporting good to supporting evil.</p> | 67 <p>Degeneracy can only develop in a good culture. Good people tend to be comfortable in a good culture. It is the people who have the strongest natural tendency for evil who feel most oppressed in a good culture. Good cultures tend become prosperous and tolerant over time. As tolerance increases, the first people to take advantage of this to rebel against the dominant good culture will be the most evil people. Of these people, the most intelligent will seek ways to rationalize their evil. This rationalization becomes an ideology that all evil people can get behind. This ideology will be significantly worse than the desires of average people because this ideology is specifically designed by the most evil people based on their desires. One standard feature of such ideologies is feminism which is the key means by which the ideology spreads to the rest of the population. The evil people support adultery and feminism is the means to enable adultery. Too much tolerance means that these evil people get away with adultery which causes women to become attracted to evil men for reasons I explain <a href="In_Defense_of_Feminism.html">here</a> and <a href="Human_Evolution.html">here</a>. Since average men want to attract women, they conform to what women want in men. And in this case, women will be attracted to the evil ideology so then men will also support it to attract women. And so the whole society shifts from supporting good to supporting evil.</p> |
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