Crusader War College

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Post details: Perils of an Open Society

09/10/09

06:06:28 am, by ptah

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Categories: Department Of Religion and Philosopy, Department of Sweet Justice, For the Record

Perils of an Open Society

Mere dissent is not in itself virtuous.

Dissent is disagreement with someone else.

If the other is mistaken, then dissent may be right, or it may be wrong.

HOWEVER, if the other is right, then dissent is wrong.

Here is the kicker: A society that tolerates, nay welcomes, dissent, does so to do the right thing. It does so to discover the truth. However, such a society is also open to manipulation by liars posing as dissenters. To blindly accept any dissent as the truth is as bad as blindly denying any dissent as evil. We must "examine all things, hold fast to that which is true."

One of the core sins of Neo-marxist liberalism is sloth: they establish superficial rules and methods to designate "truth tellers" because they are too lazy to follow the more reliable, but much harder to apply, rules to determine truth. They would much rather declare the tree good than face the task of determining if the fruit is good and letting that determine the goodness or badness of the tree. Since their internal goal is to please themselves rather than discover and obey the truth, they resort to hypocrisy in the application of their own rules when the inevitable consequences work out to their displeasure.

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Crusader War College

There are too many bastards in the world for me to keep track of. In response to this, God has proposed to keep track of who is deserving of punishment in this life, and promises to page me when He needs me to take out specific individuals. Since I have reason to believe that my spiritual pager is more sensitive than 90% of those held by church leaders, and have noticed that God does not give any task to anyone without promising divine aid and power to carry it out, I find this a mutually satisfactory arrangement that permits me to place my attention on more important matters closer to hand, while retaining the pleasant knowledge that Divine Justice will have its way. Eventually.