God the Father and God the Mother are our friends, but they are not our equals. With this in mind, we should not be too familiar with De, even becoming to casual towards De, even expressing disrespect and contempt.
That will not do--remember they are unbelievably power and capable of great anger and just violence. It is important never to forget to whom we are conversing with--it is vital that we never forget our place.
I went to dinner with a close friend of mine the other night, and he lamented that both of his parents were cold, non-affectionate parents, and that, though good providers, the kids grew up needy, and that affected their adult relationships and lives, often ending in broken marriages.
He and his siblings felt that if they were loved and emotionally satisfied from childhood, by generally being loved by their parents, it would have had positive benefits for their adult relationships. I think their self-appraisal was realistic and accurate.
We can shower partners, kids and pets with gifts, material possessions and plenty of spending cash, but if we do not love them easily, without condition, and express and demonstrate that love for them and enjoyment of them openly, repeatedly, and daily, the objects of our affection will wilt, suffer, and deteriorate like flowers neglected care, affection, light, fertilizer, weeding and warmth.
Being unloved and the incapacity to love is at the root of most of the world's troubles. No partner, child, pet, or flower can flourish, and be fulfilled and happy without being unconditionally, permanently loved.
There is no greater gift that we can share with God, ourselves, and them. No gift is more useful, more beneficial.
One of the alarming trends in 2022, for thoughtful, concerned thinkers, is the trend of young people, married or not, with children or not, is the huge number of young people that do not believe in God, or at least attend church.
My friend mentions that to her adult children, and they get so angry that she shuts up immediately. She is right to raise the alarm. No society can survive without each new generation of humans swearing allegiance to God. The young people must anew become a God-fearing, God-loving, God-grounded moral majority of citizens with said arrangement fin place and adhered to. There is no viable civilization viable today or in the future unless society is populated by believers whose lives are centered in the worship of, the obedience of, and the love of God and the publicly expressed and shared reverence for God's presence in our midst.
Jung and Jordan Peterson expound at length about the archetypal craving for spiritual meaning and intimate communion with spiritual beings in existence beyond our mortal selves.
Where that religious craving is not met in a wholesome, positive way, bad, corrosive substitutes will be resorted to. If people do not believe in God, they will still worship and follow a substitute deity because the human heart cannot live in a metaphysical vacuum, for supernature like nature always fills an existent vacuum.
The substitutes have demonic origins: be it addiction to some substance or bizarre addictive behavior, a life turned over to pursuit of utter pleasure, self-indulgence or a life of pure criminal preying on others.
Other vitiating substitutes are political or other isms or causes, adopted by millions of mass movement-serving true believers. Others will worship Communism, fascism, big government. Others will join religious cults, and some will worship Satan and Lera openly.
The void will be filled. People rejecting God will always fill the void in their hearts with substitutes, that destroy their souls, and often threaten the entire world as an unintended consequence. The current failure and unwillingness to acknowledge our debt to God is a mistake with powerful and undesired outcomes up ahead.
If your claim to fame is that you are popular, I suggest that that braggadocio is pathetic. What impresses me is how smart you have become, how artistic you are, how you have worked your way to prosperity, how you have overcome adversity, how maverized and how loving you are.
Your popularity or social status is ordinarily a pathetic standard to judge the worth of your life and character by.
Several weeks agon Dennis Prager announced on his radio show that he now had come to agree that Trump Derangement Syndrome was real.
Prager's 8/24/22 announcement to this effect is describing a pattern of hysterical hatred and scapegoating opposition to a targeted person, and the campaign is unfair, warrantless, crazed, cruel, cowardly, unjustified and most consistently, viciously person against the target.
This collectivist attack on any great soul that firmly, consistently opposes their agenda and wickedness.
All the riled mob can think about is defeating, humbling, thwarting and perhaps physically attacking or killing the rebel in their midst.
The mob must win and win totally. Victory, complete success, and power-amassing are their objectives to be attained by any means. They desire to reign supreme and unopposed. They desire to be unchallenged by anyone for any reason, petty or otherwise.
There are few ploys are valuable to these children of darkness for expanding their control over people and territory, and this method is wicked and useful to them as they win and win big by any means necessary or at their disposal.
The Democrats and the Left in 2022 strive mightily and somewhat successfully to divine us into warring tribal groups: whites vs blacks, straights vs gays, rich vs poor, conservatives vs Envirostatists, the oppressors and the oppressed.
This postmodernist reality is false and destructive, based on contradiction and conflict as the fundamental human reality, Stephen Hicks warns.
The war of tribe against tribe allows for the grow of fanaticism and mob rule. True believers are working to bring about their Marxist revolution, the imagined heaven of earth just around the corner.
These totalists are wicked and liars: members of one's group are all good, are righteous, all truthful, and all beautiful. They can do no wrong and deserve unreserved support always.
Rival groups and tribes are all bad, all stupid, all sinful, inferior, worthless liars, ugly and sordid. They can do no right and any way that we treatment is justifiable. This is the intersectional, CRT future that the Left seeks to instantiate.
Two of my favorite American Jewish intellectuals are those two geniuses, Dennis Prager and Mark Levin.
Both believe in God/ Both espouse that the Creator made the world and set up natural law to keep it running along smoothly.
Humans are born corrupt (Prager believes this but I don't know about Levin.) but have reason and free agency so human instincts are not strong enough or pervasive enough to regulate human behavior. For this reason, God gave us objective moral law to fill the gap, and each generation of children need to learn to be good and virtuous, lest society turn to crap.
Prager and Levin both believe in objective morality, objective truth that is accessible by inquisitive humans.
That these two geniuses champion that objective morality and objective truth exist and are accessible to searching humans also informs me that they are epistemological optimists.
As an ethical, ontological, and epistemological moderate, I am not as epistemologically optimistic as Prager and Levin, but I accept their views as true with a high degree of certainty.
Those that believe in objective truth and objective morality are not the same as fanatics--absolutists and totalists--liars, incorrect and vicious--that assert that they have all the answers and are always right, noble and beautiful, and that any that disagree with them or oppose them are to be crushed or wiped out by any means possible, fair or foul.
The epistemological optimism of Prager and Levin is based on reasonableness, sensible prudence, tolerance, discourse, respect for differing opinions and tolerance of diversity of spoken and written opinions and stances on issues.
The absolutists are epistemological optimists, but their reasoning is phony, false, hostile, cruel, and domineering. All are to think as one without dissent, without exception. Those that fail to surrender to group think and utter surrender of the thinking self to the cause, these heretics will be forced to convert or be jailed, torture or die.
