America-on the Spiraling Downward Path, Part 5

Romans 1 teaches the downward spiral: it goes from revelation to rejection to rationalization. They tell themselves they’re wise when the truth is they are fools. But the fourth cause of God’s wrath is the worst. Revelation rejected, darkness rationalized and the fourth is religion... ...Verse 23, “They exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.” How ridiculous.Religion...men create their own gods to accommodate their own useless ideas. You might think that religion is man at his highest, but religion is man at his lowest. False religion is man at the bottom. It’s man who has gone away from the truth of God and the further he goes, the more he descends into satanic false religion. ... This is the final straw. As verse 25 indicates, they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and they worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever, amen. They kept worshiping, they developed the religion but they worshiped something of their own creation, or a creation of God, an animal, a fish, a star, a constellation, or an idol rather than the Creator. Verse 28 says it again, “They did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer.” It doesn’t mean they’re not religious, the whole world is religion, fanatically religious. You see, man does not ascend from the muck of paganism and ignorance up to the truth of God. That’s not how it works. ...Dr. John MacArthur, Jr.

Man is not evolving up, he is not ascending to God. He is descending. He falls from the truth of God into the slime of religion, false religion, satanic counterfeit. Religion is not man at his best, religion is man at his worst. It is not man finding God, it is man finding Satan and being content with him. The ultimate insanity is to reject God and create a non-God that doesn’t exist and worship that. How insane is that? A false God, a false Jesus, and you do that and call yourself wise and erudite and you pontificate about your religion and you have all kinds of complexities in your satanic system, all kinds of people going around with titles and robes and authority and influence and power. The idols come in all kinds of forms, from primitive statues of the lowest cultures to the more elevated gods of self and sex and mother nature, from the Roman eagle to the spotted owl, to the golden bulls of Egypt to the dolphin gods of environmentalists, from the worship of a stick to the worship of the earth, from Aborigines to environmentalists, from pantheistic worship of the world to eco-feminism, from eco-feminism to Islam and every other religion. I’m not surprised that terrorism is associated with religion, it’s man at his lowest. Is it any wonder that as a society we are struggling with our ethics? Is it any wonder we are struggling with our morals? We’ve rejected God. He gave us revelation, we rejected it. We rationalize it and call ourselves an elite educated advanced culture and we invent religion as if it’s an indicator of how high we have ascended when the fact of the matter is we’re going down at warp speed. We have abandoned God and God has returned the favor. ...Dr. John MacArthur

Liberals clinically mad, concludes top psychiatrist Eminent doctor makes case leftist ideology is a mental disorder Posted: November 12, 20086:33 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder. "Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy." For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do." Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by: creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization; satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy; rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government. "The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."
...such psycho babble is interesting to the conservative mind...but we have another non-psycho name for it: SIN.

Radicals have hijacked America's education system. Somehow out of the industrial confusion following the Civil War, (maybe well meaning) powerful men and dreamers became certain what kind of social order America needed. This realization didn't arise as a product of public debate (democratic), but as distillation of private discussion. Their ideas contradicted the original American charter but that did not disturb them. They had a stupendous goal in mind, the rationalization of everything. The end of unpredictable history and its transformation into something orderly. Their world view was radically different than ours. ...The first goal, to be reached in stages, was an orderly, scientifically managed society, one in which the best people would make the decisions, unhampered by democratic tradition. After that, human breeding, the evolutionary destiny of the species, would be in reach. Universal institutionalized formal forced schooling was the prescription....Evolutionary theory,...without the Creator, provided the philosophical underpinning for this atheistic world view. German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, created the “scientific” basis not only for denying God but for transforming society and the “public” school system. The planners were clever, using “public” for their “national” school system. There is a subtle, soul-killing power of forced government schooling without God, the devastating effect on each child's not-so-hidden genius of sitting at a desk in a classroom all day for one's entire youth. The bottom line, says John Taylor Gatto, is “spiritually contented people are dangerous for a variety of reasons. They don't make reliable servants because they won't jump at every command. They test what is requested against a code of (biblical) moral principle. Those who are spiritually secure can't easily be driven to sacrifice family relations.”