#benjamin wiker

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

As others have noted, [Betty] Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] was aimed at a revolution of a very small, elite group of upper-middle class, intellectually inclined women who could be doctors, lawyers, writers, artists, physicists, architects, or actresses - the sort of people she lived with in Rockland County. She seemed unconcerned, in her own life and in the Mystique’s “New Life Plan for Women,” with the emancipation of the woman who cleaned the houses of the revolutionaries or took care of their children.

Benjamin Wiker, PhD., 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (2008)

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

In the heady eighteenth century, before atheism got its chance at the historical helm, it was possible to blame Christianity for every evil the Christian West had ever known. But after the twentieth century, when much of the world lay convulsed and broken upon the rock-hard certainties of so many secular political utopian schemes, atheism no longer has the luxury of speculating upon how grand the future will be once we’ve rid the world of priests and kings and brought heaven to earth. The old “myths” now seem to have a curious ring of truth. The safest place to put heaven, as some wise deity most have realized, is not on earth. As for our beginnings, we have found that if we create ourselves in the image of the savage, we end up with previously unimagined savagery.

Benjamin Wiker, PhD., 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (2008)

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

The desire that something be true, rather than the desire for truth itself, may well be the root of all evil. It is certainly the origin of all ideology, and ideology was the source of much of the evil in the past century.   What is ideology? We live in such an ideological age that it’s hard for us to distinguish good thinking from bad. The crucial distinction is that ideology is not philosophy. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, the love of what is real, whether we happen to like it or not. It is the desire for truth, and the continual humility to remold our desires to fit reality. Ideology comes at truth from the opposite direction, molding truth to what we happen to desire. Because it has no compunction about refashioning truth to fit our desires, it has no hesitation...in refashioning reality according to our cravings. Pseudo-science is thus the handmaid to ideology. Politics is its hammer.

Benjamin Wiker, PhD., 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (2008)

[martyschoenleber]

Four New Books on My Night Stand

Four new books I’m putting on the top of my nightstand. Loving each one. Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology or Ideology? Reflections of a Bultmannian turned Evangelical, by Dr. Eta Linemann. Dr. Linemann was a German scholar who was a personal student of Rudolph Bultmann. She taught for almost two decades in the German University system until two things happened. One, she started to…

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[jornalgrandeabc]

Dez Livros que Estragaram o Mundo - E continuam estragando

Dez Livros que Estragaram o Mundo – E continuam estragando

Esta resenha “Dez Livros que Estragaram o Mundo…” é de autoria de Fito A análise de Benjamin Wiker conseguiu mostrar, de uma só vez, quinze obras que trouxeram um mal ao ocidente, infelizmente, por causa da grande quantidade de leitores que consumiram a perfidez escrita nas páginas. Começando por Maquiavel, já começa “detonando” sua obra, que alimentou diversos psicopatas que comandaram o mundo…

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[wepicy]

Discovery Quote By Benjamin Wiker “Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth” Benjamin Wiker, - The Mystery Of The Periodic Table

[jwbarker]

Faith and reason. Pray, think: Some recent posts on religion on soundingsjohnbarker

Some recent posts on religion on soundingsjohnbarker

Some recent posts on religion on soundingsjohnbarker. Most have a decidedly Catholic flavour, but definitely not all, as my writing on religion can be as eclectic and wide-ranging into other areas of the Christian realm as my writing on non-religious topics can be. So, if you’re a Catholic, buckle in for some discussion of eschatology in the form of Bible prophecy, premillennial…

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[writingcalmsthemind]

THIS FUCKING BOOK "Imagine a farmer wandering around lost in his own thoughts, vexed by the question of whether we can really know what a cow is. He is too immersed in reality to question it. The cow needs to be milked and there's no time for udder confusion."