The Triumph of Tradition: How the Resurgence of Religion is Reawakening a Conservative World - Steve Turley Audiobook

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  caesar963
  November 18th, 2018
  

  

  These things are cyclical. The file size indicates a non-book.

  The Triumph of Tradition: How the Resurgence of Religion is Reawakening a Conservative World - Steve Turley
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  Flyinby
  November 18th, 2018
  

  

  Or “How religious hypocrisy keeps rearing its ugly head to assure a tribal mentality and a world that will never be at peace.”

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  caesar963
  November 18th, 2018
  

  

  Are religious people the only hypocrites? Is tribe not truly based on addled notions of race? Are wars not just ethnic, tribal, territorial and political conflicts, with greed and lust for power as their true primary, motivating factors (read Machiavelli)?
  The two largest wars in history were just such.
  Sometimes religion is used as a false flag. It is arrogated and co-opted by an opportunistic political elite. It’s useful to know who formulated the concept of the Just War.

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  B0wtiesAreC00l
  November 19th, 2018
  

  The world is becoming more atheist. Get used to it

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  Flyinby
  November 19th, 2018
  

  

  It’s not religion per se, that’s at fault…nothing wrong with believing in a higher intelligence. It’s the rampant abuse of religion by hypocrites to justify their own hates, goals and prejudices that’s so disgusting. Witness the “religious” in the US claiming the current political climate was put there by “god’s will”, while the actual politicians violate daily every core value they claim to abide by. The terrorists who manipulate the meaning of their books to justify their murders, while making themselves feel superior because they are “helping god”. That’s only two of the most blatant examples of a worldwide abuse of human limitations and desires to understand what we’re not capable of understanding.
  The problem lies in the ones who claim they DO understand, when they don’t, so they’re already violating the truthfulness that most “religions” claim to teach.

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  caesar963
  November 19th, 2018
  

  

  @B0wties - Well, not really. Apparently, positive atheists and agnostics worldwide make up 7% of the world’s population, with most residing in Asia (China) understandably enough.
  Formal observance has fallen away here in Europe, but, demographically, theists tend to have more children (the optimism factor).
  As people age and become more contemplative, they return to faith, for the most part. Bow tie usage also increases.
  Ultimately, this is of fundamental importance on an individual, personal level.

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  caesar963
  November 19th, 2018
  

  

  @Flyinby - I agree with you on hypocrisy (it actually violates the Fourth Commandment!).
  The terrorists want to murder people and will use any “justification” - religious or secular. The overwhelming majority of the mass murders committed during the 20th Century were for secular purposes. One or other of “isms” which are now “wasms” - but you’ve identified the core problem. Certainty, whether political or religious, creates fanaticism. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s that toxic certainty. The same certainty that creates death camps.

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  SimonShaw
  November 20th, 2018
  

  https://politicalaudio.org/audio-books/god-is-not-great-how-religion-poisons-everything-christopher-hitchens-4/

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  caesar963
  November 20th, 2018
  

  Hitchens has cruelly been referred to as the “hero of the zeroes.”

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  wishfire22
  November 21st, 2018
  

  

  Resurgence? Religion is suffering historic decline. Churches are closing in the US much faster than they are being erected, and the party of theocracy was just dealt a vicious political blow in the form of the biggest Congressional swing in decades.

  Oh, and your Orange God’s approval rating is in the toilet, and we’re just getting started. Liberals historically vote even *more* decisively in presidential elections, so prepare for the wave to become a tsunami. :)

  Owned, you indoctrinated, fallacious thugs.

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  caesar963
  November 21st, 2018
  

  

  Join us when the shuttle lands.

  You should really read that stuff back to yourself before you post it! Not everyone on the planet is American, you know. There are even other continents.

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  Edwardj1880
  November 29th, 2018
  

  

  The 2 greatest murders in human history, Stalin and Hitler, were both men raised in faith,but who ultimately rejected it,and then persecuted ALL religions. I am an agnostic,I’m not sold on the existence of a “God”,but neither am I foolish enough to say with certainty that there can not be one. Science is an amazing thing, and has brought light to so many questions that needed answering, and continues to do so, but at the same time, there are just too many things science, no matter how hard it tries to, cant explain, cant.

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  BlueSun03
  December 6th, 2018
  

  

  First of all, edwardj1880, Hitler never rejected his Catholicism. He did reject those Catholic leaders who he believed threatened his leadership, but never his faith. He proclaimed it until he died, insisting his spiritual Catholic beliefs underpinned everything he did.

  The most frightening thing I can imagine is a resurgence of religion (especially, being of Jewish heritage, the Christian religion that has been tormenting, torturing, & murdering my people for 2,000 years). If there IS a resurgence of religion (I see just the opposite in the Western World, including the US), all it would mean is a return to the Dark Ages & the imposition of 2,000 year old sexual taboos on the rest of us.

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  caesar963
  December 9th, 2018
  

  

  @Blue - I abhor anti-Semitism, always have - all right-thinking people do, in my veiw. But, remember, it did pre-exist Christianity and it persists among non-believers (as it always has).

  When Christianity was suppressed by the Soviets, the new, “enlightened” regime continued the pogroms. Stalin was planning to send all doctors of Jewish heritage to the gulags immediately prior to his death. As an atheist regime, devoid of moral values, it’s freedom to commit wholesale slaughter was absolute, as Dostoevsky foresaw.

  Hitler detested Christianity, because he saw it as the “residue of Jewish poison” and its compassion, love and forgiveness weakened his “race.” But he deceitfully played a tactical game, outwardly professing a faith. One which Catholic voters and the clergy/hierarchy/Papacy saw through. In spite of widespread Brownshirt repression and intimidation, as they “obvserved” the election, Catholics voted against the Nazis. If you review the 1933 electoral details and map, you will see the relevant concentrations. The Nazis received their support from Lutheran areas. It should be noted here that the incredibly courageous Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was involved in the plot to kill Hitler, and died in a death camp for his part in the conspiracy.

  We should also look at what Hitler actually did, in order to discern his true motivation. He closed all Catholic schools and murdered over 900 Catholic priests and many nuns in the death camps.
  These were hardly the actions of a devout and truly believing Roman Catholic.

  People use and abuse religion, but they murder and torture primarily because they want to do so. Any cloak will be employed for this nefarious purpose.
  My Catholic faith enhances my pro-Semitism, just as it increases by concern for all people. Shalom.

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  caesar963
  December 10th, 2018
  

  

  In my “view” - and “my” concern; sorry, I need new spectacles.

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  Edwardj1880
  February 23rd, 2019
  

  BlueSwan, Hitler absolutely did reject religion. He viewed it usefulness as far as it helped push through his own wants and needs. He persecuted the church, in fact, the Vatican caught a lot of heat for not denouncing him. He didnt come right out and say so because he didnt want to appear anti-christian in the public eye of America. Prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor Hitler held out the hope that America would not directly enter the war and he didnt want to do anything to overtly to change the Americans view that it was a “European war”. True, the longer the war went on, the less and less likely that seemed, but then again he was ordering his generals to place entire divisions on soldiers that no longer existed into defensive positions to repel the Soviet advance towards Berlin, so it’s no surprise he believed America wouldnt eventually enter the war, even when almost all of his generals and admirals told him they basically already were involved

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  Edwardj1880
  February 23rd, 2019
  

  In fact, he called Jesus’s life a failure, https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler this is a more accurate view of how he came to view Christianity as to “meek” and how it could not exist alongside with National Socialism. He said what he had to to get the churches support while he rose to power, as he did with almost every other group, and then, once in power, you can see how his “views” changed, drastically

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  Askatazun
  February 16th, 2020
  

  

  Turley is right. If you don’t see the shift back to tradition happening, you are simply naive. Any animal can be atheist! We ARE returning to more base instincts because of atheism. It is only human to believe in more than oneself, that is how civilisation was built.

  @blueSun We’ve already had atheistic decades at the decline of nearly every great empire, from Greece to Rome. Atheism can only exist in sheltered, degenerate and declining societies.

  Most Jewish persecution happens in Islam, but you name Christianity?

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  Askatazun
  February 16th, 2020
  

  

  @wishfire You do realize that according to Pew Research, Right wing people expose themselves to sources outside of their own worldview far more often than left wing people? If you want an era that resembles our own, look at Rome and Greece declining: atheistic and rotten! But you know what happened after?

  @flyinby Religion is energy, directed towards good or bad ends. Without that energy, society as a whole declines, this happened time and time again. There’s a reason why Christian societies made modern civilisation.

  The Triumph of Tradition: How the Resurgence of Religion is Reawakening a Conservative World - Steve Turley

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