DEIST VIEWS Of BUSH WORLD
Dr. Gerald M. Lower, Jr.
The Death of the American Politic RIP (1776 to 2000 AD)
Jeffersonian Democracy was dead in principle with the Reagan administration's pandering to the religious right for votes and it was dead in fact the moment the Bush administration brought "compassionate" conservatism into the Oval Office. Recognition of this fact is where American citizens properly begin in their quest for comprehension and control of their own destinies.
The current view of American and worldly reality is a function of the time frames employed in thinking about these things, be the resulting views "here and now," historical or evolutionary in scope.
• Somewhere Inside George Bush
Inside each of us, we all know what we are doing. Even appointed Presidents know what they are doing, somewhere inside.
• Are Americans a Chosen People?
It's easy feeling chosen when one has the money and the power to do so, which only proves that one's god is at one's side.
• George W. Bush - A Brother in Christ?
New Testament in word, Old Testament in fact, George Bush is over two centuries behind America's Fathers in recognizing that nascent Christianity is a rejection of Judaism and Roman despotism.
• Thinking for Oneself in Bush's America
Thinking for ourselves as interdependent individuals is the only viable approach to human political unification and global problem-solving. Believe it or not (see Nascent Christianity).
• "I Am Not A Liar," He Lied
Lies are not lies in Bush World. Since there are no truths, there are no lies. There are only necessary interpretations (distortions and fabrications) in the "national interest" (as defined by the Bush administration) and in the interest of maintaining executive control.
While the "war on terrorism" is certainly about oil and certainly about hegemony, the war is also about religion, a war driven by the same values and self-righteous attitudes which drove JudeoRoman imperialism and colonialism.
• A Letter to Saddam
Dear Saddam, you ignorant sack of despotic dung. You may have an excuse for your primitive and violent political philosophy, but George Bush does not.
• Tribes - On Democratizing the Middle East
Democracy emerges in a nation of people from the inside, born of a passion for freedom and fairness and equality. Democracy cannot be imposed from the outside by an occupying nation, certainly not by a nation having itself lost all grasp of what is meant by Democracy.
Leo Strauss and Jefferson's Impending Death
The man behind the neocon revolution was not a bad man, just a poor philosopher. The icons of the west are not reason (Athens) and revelation (Jerusalem), they are reason (Athens) and compassion (Bethlehem).
John Muir on Bush's JudeoRoman Metaphysics
JudeoRoman capitalists need "time gained to get better acquainted with God."
Aldo Leopold on Bush's JudeoRoman Metaphysics
To pick a pasque flower is to disturb a star.
Legalism, Anarchism or Blessed Liberty?
Legalism is not the opposite but the reciprocal of anarchism.
The evolution of class warfare in the western world, compliments of western religion. It is a cultural conspiracy and we follow a millennial script which no one alive had a hand in authoring.
• Religious and Republican at the Shrine of Democracy
What better place for self-righteous, conservative, crony capitalism than in the shadow of Mount Rushmore, the Shrine of Democracy? Welcome to the American Gap between "haves" and "have nots."
• Relative Human Worth
Evaluations of relative human worth as a function of personal wealth and power are religiously psychotic, socially pathogenic, and without honest justification, simple as that.
From James' Pragmatic Capitalism to Bush's JudeoRoman Capitalism
First the rich wanted religion out of business, then they wanted religion in business. Whatever it takes to take from the people.
Iraqi Oil Democracy and American Oil Despotism
The oil in Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people?
The evolution of western morality - from a covetous morality (barbaric) to a legal/penal, vengeance-based morality (religious) to an ethical morality based in honesty and compassion (nascent Christian).
• George Bush and the "Theory of Grotesques"
An evaluation of Bush World employing the criteria set forth by Sherwood Anderson ("Winesburg, Ohio," 1928) in establishing the ethical limitations of value systems.
• Science and the Fundamentalist "ISMS"
All traditional world cultures, east and west, are uniformly "Isms." They are also a lot of feudalistic fluff in the name of the few.
• Graham's God and George's Evolution
Bush's acquisition of fundamentalist religion and his embrace of Graham's JudeoRoman god provide for his newly found role in cultural evolution as Jefferson's AntiChrist.
• Bush's Fatal Ignorance of Evolution
What George Bush doesn't know and rejects about evolution will certainly hurt him. In the absence of honest historical and evolutionary context, the Bush administration joins the ranks of those temple defilers who know not what they are doing.
• Apocalypse Now .. Celebrating the "End of Time"
The western religious "End of Time" and the "Birth of Human" are quite synonymous, all endings being beginnings. The "Second Coming" is when the people stop talking about Christ and start thinking like him, incorporating enlightenment values into political philosophy where they belong.
Derivation of the Values of Science, Democracy and nascent Christianity
• Deism - The Dialectic Synthesis of Theism and Atheism
The Science of Religion - the Religion of our Fathers
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