Below-copied by ap submitted at comments, https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_h...omment-3744754
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Barrett: go and ck ur high-school text-books, sucker–European civilization began w. Greeks, even prior to 500 B.C., including especially the Homeric epics, Illiad and Oddysey. Christianity is itself largely a Greek inspiration, the earliest works preserved being written in Greek language. Christians then arose definitively under the Romans and sought to preserve that Greek foundation, Christ (= truth; Gosp. JOHN 14:6) affirming implicitly the OBJECTIVE (Aristotelian) reality as necessary foundation to such truth ideal, aimed explicitly against the Pharisaic subjectivism, “midrash” (interpretation), and “Oral Law Tradition” (see Gosp. JOHN 8:44).
The "racial" impetus and orientation is the very purpose of philosophy, ethics, and all civilization, including especially the Biblic 4th (in some records, the 5th) commandment, "honor thy parentage (race)." And honor for the race also implies the determinist principle of absolute cause-effect, no perfectly "free" human will. Reality, including then one's personality, is determined by ancestors and all and any precedents and circumstances.
A "vibrant, powerful civilization" is ONLY possible by means of deterministic, hence racially-oriented ethics, philosophy, and culture, as history demonstrates beginning w. Greeks, then Romans, then the Germanic race which Germanic upheld Christian objectivity, reason (Holy Spirit), and determinism. "Love of self" is necessary virtue of PRUDENCE which the Greeks always recognized, and self-interest is simply the basic human condition, humans understood as creatures of will, hence self-interest, hence "sinners," when that intrinsic self-interest isn't tempered by reason (and Holy Spirit).
Thus as Christianity is worship of TRUTH (= Christ) above all, science, reason, and biology are simply aspects of the Holy Spirit, the means by which such truth is apprehended and appreciated, and whatever "purpose" there may be is mere means to happiness and whatever end is chosen--which might be anything. "Self-sacrifice" is what suckers and weaklings do in service to some clever military leader, like the original Muhammud, who inveigled the Arabs to obey his orders when he went about to ambushing the latest caravans making their way in the desert.
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123.Kevin Barrett says:
March 1, 2020 at 3:03 am GMT • 200 Words
@KenH
European civilization rose when it was Christian, and has been declining since its elites abandoned Christianity. What makes you think a “raceless and universalist creed” cannot survive, thrive, or even dominate in a hostile world, since that is precisely what Western Christian civilization (and Islamic civilization, Confucian civilization, etc.) have done? Even pagan civilizations are based on sacrifice to the gods. What historical examples show that narcissistic racial navel-gazing builds a vibrant, powerful civilization?
Spengler among others saw that the force that raises and sustains civilizations is a spiritual vision or Platonic ideal that gives men an Other worth living and dying for. Mere love of (racial) self will never do that. It is a dead end.
If your answer is that you worship the science of biology, and/or your own biological heritage, you are making a category mistake. Science only reveals what is, not what should be. It offers a description of life, not a purpose.
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Barrett Compares Christian Truth Ideal With Mere
Islamic Imperium
(Apollonian, 1 Mar 20)
(Apollonian, 1 Mar 20)
Barrett: go and ck ur high-school text-books, sucker–European civilization began w. Greeks, even prior to 500 B.C., including especially the Homeric epics, Illiad and Oddysey. Christianity is itself largely a Greek inspiration, the earliest works preserved being written in Greek language. Christians then arose definitively under the Romans and sought to preserve that Greek foundation, Christ (= truth; Gosp. JOHN 14:6) affirming implicitly the OBJECTIVE (Aristotelian) reality as necessary foundation to such truth ideal, aimed explicitly against the Pharisaic subjectivism, “midrash” (interpretation), and “Oral Law Tradition” (see Gosp. JOHN 8:44).
The "racial" impetus and orientation is the very purpose of philosophy, ethics, and all civilization, including especially the Biblic 4th (in some records, the 5th) commandment, "honor thy parentage (race)." And honor for the race also implies the determinist principle of absolute cause-effect, no perfectly "free" human will. Reality, including then one's personality, is determined by ancestors and all and any precedents and circumstances.
A "vibrant, powerful civilization" is ONLY possible by means of deterministic, hence racially-oriented ethics, philosophy, and culture, as history demonstrates beginning w. Greeks, then Romans, then the Germanic race which Germanic upheld Christian objectivity, reason (Holy Spirit), and determinism. "Love of self" is necessary virtue of PRUDENCE which the Greeks always recognized, and self-interest is simply the basic human condition, humans understood as creatures of will, hence self-interest, hence "sinners," when that intrinsic self-interest isn't tempered by reason (and Holy Spirit).
Thus as Christianity is worship of TRUTH (= Christ) above all, science, reason, and biology are simply aspects of the Holy Spirit, the means by which such truth is apprehended and appreciated, and whatever "purpose" there may be is mere means to happiness and whatever end is chosen--which might be anything. "Self-sacrifice" is what suckers and weaklings do in service to some clever military leader, like the original Muhammud, who inveigled the Arabs to obey his orders when he went about to ambushing the latest caravans making their way in the desert.
-----------------------above by ap in response to below-copied-------------------
123.Kevin Barrett says:
March 1, 2020 at 3:03 am GMT • 200 Words
@KenH
European civilization rose when it was Christian, and has been declining since its elites abandoned Christianity. What makes you think a “raceless and universalist creed” cannot survive, thrive, or even dominate in a hostile world, since that is precisely what Western Christian civilization (and Islamic civilization, Confucian civilization, etc.) have done? Even pagan civilizations are based on sacrifice to the gods. What historical examples show that narcissistic racial navel-gazing builds a vibrant, powerful civilization?
Spengler among others saw that the force that raises and sustains civilizations is a spiritual vision or Platonic ideal that gives men an Other worth living and dying for. Mere love of (racial) self will never do that. It is a dead end.
If your answer is that you worship the science of biology, and/or your own biological heritage, you are making a category mistake. Science only reveals what is, not what should be. It offers a description of life, not a purpose.
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