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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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--- a/src/mikraite/Truth_and_Alternatives.html Fri Sep 19 21:40:40 2025 -0600 +++ b/src/mikraite/Truth_and_Alternatives.html Fri Sep 19 21:56:59 2025 -0600 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ <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> -<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> +<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> <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>