Great site..

[undergroundpanther]

Nonconforming and conformity must live together in such a way that allows expression and growth from self created foundations and to higher levels of conscious thinking...



"Tolerance used to mean that people of strong convictions would willingly bear the burden of putting up peacefully with people they regarded as plainly in error. Now it means that people of weak convictions facilely agree that others are also right, and anyway the truth of things doesn't make much difference as long as everyone is "nice." I don't know if "judgementaphobic" is a is a word, but it ought to be. This republic crawls with judgmentalphobes. Where conscience used to raise an eyebrow at our slips and falls, sunny non-judgmentalism winks and slaps us on the back.

In the absence of judgment, however, freedom cannot thrive. If nothing matters, freedom is pointless. If one choice is as good as another, choice is merely preference. A glandular reflex would do as well. Without standards, no one is free but only a slave of impulses coming from who knows where."

That said, I turn to the happier side of the picture. Both liberals and conservatives also have their virtues. The virtue of liberalism is tolerance (in the valid, former sense of the word just indicated), and the virtue of conservatism (when likewise well handled) is the energy it can infuse into life through the feeling of certainty that the universe is on one's side.

This feeling can get drunkards out of ditches. One of the most arresting sentences I have come across in the recent years brought with it a special moment in time - it drew me up short and cause me to put down the journal for several minutes to stop and think. The sentence read, "Liberals: do not recognize the spiritual wholeness that can come from the sense of certainty." Embedded in that single sentence may be the primary reason the mainline liberal churches are losing ground to conservative churches. .




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