Conservatism And Liberalism

Alan: The above meme is so true, it is astonishing we are not continually conscious of the fact.

Note well:

In contemporary American politics, the truly dangerous idiots are "all" conservative... armed to the teeth, and itching for a fight.

How The Values Of "Strict Father" -- Or "Indulgent Parent" -- Control Our Political Views
(Short Form)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-values-of-strict-father-or.html

"Strict Father" And "Nurturant Parent": The Two World Views That Determine Our Political Values
(Long Form)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/strict-father-and-nurturant-parent-two.html

"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-truth-of.html

The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their own eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

Psychological Projection

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/projection-psychology.html

Psychological Shadow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)

The Evangelical Persecution Complex

(Projection's Finest Hour)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-evangelical-persecution-complex.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, although they are prone to believe all manner of Trumpeted nonsense, none of them are tempted to believe in their own spiritual peril. 

The Pharisees Are Always With Us.

Here's What They "Look Like" Today

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-pharisees-are-always-with-us-heres.html

Except for "the loaves and the fishes..." but then it was never the intention of "Christian" "conservatives" to live like Jesus, just to use his words like bricks to crack the skull of anyone who does'nt understand the political advantage of Pharisaism.

Jesus Rages Against The Hypocrisy Of Religious Leaders: "Woe To You Religious Leaders!"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-fingers-hypocrisy-of-religious.html

There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating.    

Denis de Rougemont

Liberals understand Merton's enjoinder much better than conservatives.

Conservatives spend a disproportionate amount of time and energy looking for reasons not to love the unworthy.

A conservative's giddiness climaxes when s/he finds biblical reason to condemn (and preferably damn) "the worthless."

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"My Gripe With Christianity"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-christianity.html

The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-christian-doctrine-of-damnation-and.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html

Why Don't Christians Loathe This Guy Just For Trashing Every American Standard?
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/why-dont-christians-loathe-this-guy.html