The Dictatorship Of Relativism.

[Khandro]

How are we to get out of this morass?

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/the-dictatorship-of-relativism-has-arrived?mc_cid=81eb3fa5d8&mc_eid=cb96807d92

[andy-hughes]

Ignore it - like I did as soon as I saw the image of the pope.

[naomi24]

Excellent article, Khandro, much of which is, I believe, accurate. Is there not though a case for saying that all Christians should be accepting of others - and isn’t organised religion in itself a form of dictatorship?

[ladybirder]

Yep agree with what he says.

[Khandro]

It chimes with the fact that Christmas appears to have been cancelled & this is nothing to do with covid, if you click on the Google logo which is festooned with Christmas decorations it says 'December holidays'.

This I believe underlines the double standard of what has been called "asymmetrical multiculturalism" in which minorities are encouraged to celebrate their cultural inheritance while the indigenous/host/ white communities are instructed to celebrate DIVERSITY & eschew their own traditions, reaching a point now where you can't hold nativity plays for children anymore or harvest festivals, you can't fly the flag of St George or even speak about such things without being called a racist.

[Atheist]

Khandro; can you explain what you mean by 'morass'? I mean explain to a simpleton like me. If you can't explain in your own words, then I'll be a bit less likely to give credit to anything you post.

[Chinajan]

Can't have nativity plays or hold harvest festivals? Do stop your nonsense.

On the bright side, we got to 14th December this year before someone trotted out those canards.

[ToraToraTora]

E=mc² ?

[Chinajan]

*without being called racist, should have added to previous post.

Like I said, nonsense.

[Atheist]

Khandro; you seem to be playing the victim card. Shame on you.

[Theland]

I don't often agree with Papal statements, but this one I agree with 100%.
Your own word, '' morass,'' is entirely appropriate, as the socio/political landscape is sticky, like a quagmire, which cannot be avoided, and leaves the unwary covered in the sticky, hard to remove or cover the identifiers that label them in the minds of the Wokeists, the enemy.
It is a dichotomy, either or, and not middle ground, no invitation to consider, but only a raucous welcome as one our mob, or a definitive shunning as one of the enemy.
Sadly, I see the demise of our Judeo Christian values being replaced as Womeism in all its forms, is sucked into the resulting vacuum.

[Theland]

Knandro is not playing the victim card, he is simply reporting the truth.

[woofgang]

"reaching a point now where you can't hold nativity plays for children anymore or harvest festivals, you can't fly the flag of St George or even speak about such things without being called a racist."

what a load of toot

[Theland]

Woolf, the load of toot has many supporters, sadly.

[douglas9401]

Always more relatives about the place dictatin' at Christmas.

[Theland]

So it should be left to individual schools and not part of the curriculum?

[Togo]

In my lifetime, we have descended from a society that could combine in collective humility and quiet reflection, into a hedonistic, self righteous hive busy building a dictatorship of dispassionate doctrine that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires. Accusation, projection, and deliberately misleading assumption has replaced acceptance, responsibility, and open mindedness. To cement it into our fragile consciousness most of the misleading manta is now become law.

[Atheist]

Togo; "In my lifetime, we have descended from a society that could combine in collective humility and quiet reflection....."
I think you have false memory syndrome.

[Togo]

I, of course, do not speak for everybody's experience of the past, or their personal family or social influences.

[Atheist]

Togo, where did you copy and paste your answer from?

[Theland]

Atheist - No, Togo is right. I can't remember a time when so many people were so vocal against so few over so little.