Monty91
04-15-2015, 02:30 PM
marriage referendum in Ireland
"At some point it will need to be acknowledged that the Enlightenment dream of the separation of religion and state has been a failure. Locke and Hobbes’ vision of a society where morality is a private matter which is dealt with in civil society whereas the state is in charge of morally
neutral issues of government was never an attainable goal simply because the difference
between the secular and the religious is largely fictitious (why are declaring war or the definition of marriage considered secular issues?)
Whilst governments remained small and circumscribed to a few tasks like policing or key public services, the separation between secular and moral seemed possible but with the advent of big government and its encroachment on almost every conceivable aspect of people’s lives via social workers, city planners, equality or environmental officers and so on, the illusion that the state can remain an impartial administrator that is not in the business of determining what is the right way to live one’s life is no longer possible.
We are now approaching an era of complete state theocracy. Unlike the Middle Ages, where power was shared by monarchs, the aristocracy and the church, all power is now concentrated on the state. The new religion is that of equality/environmentalism/relativism. It has its own saints (suffragettes) it follows a salvationist narrative (the world was ignorant and unjust but equality and human rights will redeem us all) and just like Marxism, to which it owes so much, it promises paradise this side of the grave.
The new statist religion will do away with democracy as it needs to deny the will of people to make their own moral choices (this referendum, like European ones, is a farce, the law will eventually be passed whether people want it or not) and needs to eliminate all traces of tradition either by co-opting cultural institutions like marriage, which will render them meaningless, or by PC policing of language or behaviour.
It’s the same cultural vandalism that the world witnessed in the French and Soviet revolutions and like these, it will eventually collapse under its own absurdity but in the meantime it will continue to grow.
It’s a great irony that the liberal dream of the separation of powers has given birth to this monolithic monster, but the law of unintended consequences is usually the fate of all master plans for society"
"At some point it will need to be acknowledged that the Enlightenment dream of the separation of religion and state has been a failure. Locke and Hobbes’ vision of a society where morality is a private matter which is dealt with in civil society whereas the state is in charge of morally
neutral issues of government was never an attainable goal simply because the difference
between the secular and the religious is largely fictitious (why are declaring war or the definition of marriage considered secular issues?)
Whilst governments remained small and circumscribed to a few tasks like policing or key public services, the separation between secular and moral seemed possible but with the advent of big government and its encroachment on almost every conceivable aspect of people’s lives via social workers, city planners, equality or environmental officers and so on, the illusion that the state can remain an impartial administrator that is not in the business of determining what is the right way to live one’s life is no longer possible.
We are now approaching an era of complete state theocracy. Unlike the Middle Ages, where power was shared by monarchs, the aristocracy and the church, all power is now concentrated on the state. The new religion is that of equality/environmentalism/relativism. It has its own saints (suffragettes) it follows a salvationist narrative (the world was ignorant and unjust but equality and human rights will redeem us all) and just like Marxism, to which it owes so much, it promises paradise this side of the grave.
The new statist religion will do away with democracy as it needs to deny the will of people to make their own moral choices (this referendum, like European ones, is a farce, the law will eventually be passed whether people want it or not) and needs to eliminate all traces of tradition either by co-opting cultural institutions like marriage, which will render them meaningless, or by PC policing of language or behaviour.
It’s the same cultural vandalism that the world witnessed in the French and Soviet revolutions and like these, it will eventually collapse under its own absurdity but in the meantime it will continue to grow.
It’s a great irony that the liberal dream of the separation of powers has given birth to this monolithic monster, but the law of unintended consequences is usually the fate of all master plans for society"