tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4430515888515442673..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: By their fruits shall ye know themBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-1303270544795710562012-09-10T21:24:16.752+01:002012-09-10T21:24:16.752+01:00Interesting post. But what if one considers the fr...Interesting post. But what if one considers the fruits of false churches to be increasing indifference to or rejection of Christianity? From this perspective, the fruits of Mormonism are not good.Bruce B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-20206074969131697082012-09-10T14:52:35.951+01:002012-09-10T14:52:35.951+01:00@MC - thanks.
I regard Mormons as a litmus test f...@MC - thanks.<br /><br />I regard Mormons as a litmus test for the seriousness of mainstream Christians. Obviously I don't expect people to defer to the explicit theory of Mormonism insofar as it contradicts (rather than - as usually - merely serving as a simple, clear and concrete 'plain man's exemplification of) mainstream Christian theology.<br /><br />But if people allow this to justify an anti-Mormon stance, then they have lost-it.<br /><br />I believe that mainstream Christians ought to be pro-Mormon; explicitly but not uncritically so. <br /><br />*<br /><br />@Tschafer - that's an excellent, and very convincing, argument which I hadn't previously considered. <br /><br />Stalin was here displaying a typical behaviour of the servants of evil - e.g. as portrayed by Tolkien in Sauron and Saruman.<br /><br />It is a measure of the wickedness of the Western intellectual elites that they were blind to this - since evil does not come much more blatant than in the form of Stalin.<br /><br />If you fail to see the evil of Soviet Communism, then you must surely be a deeply corrupted soul - and yet of course that was precisely the state of the Western Left, and continues to be so. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-91826228219923246532012-09-10T14:41:12.891+01:002012-09-10T14:41:12.891+01:00Your point about Evil being impatient is proved by...Your point about Evil being impatient is proved by the behavior of the USSR after WWII. In both the U.S. and Britain after the war, there was tremendous naievite about the nature of the USSR, as well as a huge store of goodwill left over from the wartime partnership against the Axis. Had the Soviets chosen to fly "under the radar" so to speak, and continue the pretense of partnership, Communism might have become unstoppable before the West awoke (and this is exactly the course of action that some Communists like Beria advocated). But no - it was as if Stalin couldn't wait to cast his evil into the face of the West, purging Eastern Europe, casting millions more into the GuLag, invading Korea, creating his own nuclear weapons, blockading Berlin. It's almost as if even the pretense of being good had become unbearable for Stalin, the mask had to come off, he had to quit (as they say today) "living a lie". <br /><br />For this we can be profoundly greatful...Tschafernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59740116690915332382012-09-10T14:16:53.445+01:002012-09-10T14:16:53.445+01:00I'm really surprised at the lack of comments t...I'm really surprised at the lack of comments to this post.<br /><br />I agree with everything you have written here. But I figured at least someone would stand up and defend atheism, at least.<br /><br />Every time I read about "strange beliefs" of Mormonism, I think to myself "ah, but they are good people, and their kids grow up to be happy, and they actually HAVE kids". And the Mormons I have known personally have been good people, kind, honest, and living clean lives.<br /><br />And if we look at the fruits of liberal culture -- housing projects, lek mating, no-fault divorce and the like, we see catastrophe piled on catastrophe again.<br /><br />Great observations.Matthew C.noreply@blogger.com