Faith in God is the Only Rational Choice

Every single day of our lives we exercise faith, without generally be aware of its all-encompassing presence. That is, we live by faith. Everything we do, from eating, driving a vehicle, raising a family is faith-based.

So the question is not fundamentally about faith versus non-faith, it is about where our faith is placed. As a society today, we place our faith in abstract human notions of economy, democracy, equality. Many place faith in their television, that it will soothe their boredom and emptiness. Many place their faith in material consumer comforts, such as that a new car will provide happiness.

An intelligent adult, and hopefully any adult, should quickly become aware that faith in these things does not provide. That is, it is empty. There may be temporary alleviations of states of boredom and unhappiness, but it will always be replaced by more desires, or require greater doses. That is what modern society is and provides us with: junk food. It may look appealing, and it is rather good at tricking kids, but it ends up leaving us slightly ill and nauseated feeling, and a lifetime of it is guaranteed to end in cancer.

Recognizing that we have no choice but to have faith, we can either remain in a foolish adolescent and ignorate state, hoping that the poison will somehow satisfy us, or we can give up and purposely drown our consciousness in always larger sensations, or we can make the rational and adult choice and place our faith in something higher. That is, something transcendent of worldly illusions.

The great religions have all touched on this subject in one way or another. Jesus told us to not "store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal." Objectively, the Egyptian Pyramids were among the greatest material achievements of mankind, and yet there too we see the forces of time and lesser man permitting and promoting decay. Not that the Pyramids primary goals were material, they were not, but the point stands.

So raise your sight and faith to higher realities. Do not allow yourself to be like the savage men, nor the lustful men, but become a transcendent man.

Temptation

Moderns wrongly equate temptation with individual choice. That is, what tempts us, and our ability to obtain and fulfill the temptation, is free choice.

Yet, as the previous post emphasized, we must go a step further and realize that all temptations and desires have been reduced to a lowest-common-denominator, the great equality so that all individuals may be tempted and "freely" chose the same thing.

So what is this greatest of idiotic ironies? Moderns claim the ultimate celebration of our unique individuality is to subsume all that makes us unique and to simply desire the same things that are common to all animal forms of life do: sex, food, comfort.

What then makes humans special? Only that we get more of those things than the other animals. What base foolishness.

Everday Free Choice

Moderns purport to have a greater degree of free choice than ever before historically. Yet we witness the exercise of this choice merely as an attempt to pursue temptation. The hunger is only limited by units of credit the individual has obtained. This sort of choice is celebrated immensely.

Here is a common example of modern free choice: "Once I win the lottery, do I buy a mansion or a yacht? Or maybe even a sports car!"

The economy and materialism are so dominant that all "choice" is merely a matter of express how one intends to worship these idols.

This is where we may see the embrace of a Nietzsche-like Nihilism as beneficial, to smash down the illusions hold modern man with a empty subset within his thought prison. Once freed, he may open himself to real possibilities in life, and perhaps embrace the real meaning and focus of life that ancient traditions made it their priority to tranasmit.

Individualism

…This freedom is the freedom of the cancer to do its own thing, kill the host, and then kill itself.

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-reality-of-group-selection-and-not.html

Summary

The left is characterized by lies, fear and hatred. Out of fear, they deceitfully portray conservatives as hateful.

Desensitized

Illusions on the glowing screen display the constructed world of a fraudulent society. To alleviate the boredom and frustration of stress, acting, and repetition that highlights a modern existence. The constant striving, and never relief from, a hunger for joy. Moments slip by as the scenery rolls by, life slips by.

The life of illusions and distractions leaves a dull ache in the soul. An endless dissatisfaction. The entertainment acts similar to alcohol, dulling the intellect and most sensitive nature of man, helping him to dismiss his fallen state.

The distractions lose interest over time though. To maintain the attraction they need to forever be louder, brighter, more exciting, more violent. Man becomes more brutish, losing the touch of his higher nature. Man becomes both stupider and desensitized for it.

His heart no longer finds joy in what once was proof of transcendent truths of good and beauty. His heart can't find joy, for it has become hardened. The subtle truth no longer evokes images of greatness and mystery - of endless cosmos.

The loss of sensitivity no longer allows for real sadness or tragedy either. Everything must be feelingness and anesthetized. Dull comfort - man will not feel true joy or torturous pain.

What is the net result of this loss? Evil.

Man no longer sensitive no longer realizes goodness and badness for what it is, he can no longer feel so easily the apparent and real difference. The hypocrisy and deceit of society slowly creeps in, inverting truths, and man so dull never the wiser. This is where man has been lead. Anesthized and stupid, he has  walked right into hell.

Is all Earthly Warfare Really Spiritual Warfare?

"The fruits have been catastophically declining birth rates in Catholic countries and a spiritual vacuum now being filled, in Europe, by Muslim immigrants."

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/008516.html

Peter O. invokes a very interesting image. The decline in Europe correlates directly to their lack of and abandonment of the traditional faith. Was this faith the pillar on which a people and civilization rest? Perhaps the earthly manifestations are direct manifestations of the spiritual warfare.

Where the West has lost its faith, they are being quickly replaced by people who maintaing and live their faith.

The West's path of leftism, its spiritual suicide, is manifesting itself as a literal physical suicide.