Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Historical Delusions of Religion, Franklin Graham and The Intellectual-Liberalism of Morality

It is easy to ignore self-serving assertions by a preacher, considering the historical delusions of religion.  But in American Politics, religion specifically the idealistic distortions and distractions practiced by Christianity presents an interesting nexus of the Human Condition.

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and heir to the Graham Evangelical Enterprise of preaching the New Testament declared with the typical flourish and zeal of Intellectual-Liberalism.  That the nation lost it's moral rudder in the 1960's.  Intimating that the various expressions of political activity and speech during the 1960's was an immoral period in the nations history.

What I find curiously pathetic about Franklin Graham's declaration and it's exercise in Intellectual-Liberalism is:  If the struggles of the 1960's show that the nation lost it's moral rudder.  What then do we say about the fact that the nation had a relative morality to begin with.  The nation, the United States of America was founded and built on the Intellectual-Liberalism of relative morality.  The nation was founded and built on the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement and genocide of Black people (Africans) the exploitation of Chinese workers the terrorism and oppression of Southern Jim Crow laws and the Intellectual-Liberalism of Thomas Jefferson philosophizing on Mans liberty at the expense of his practices as a slave owner.  So what moral rudder lost is Franklin Graham in true delusional fashion raving about?

By Apropos

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