Comments for The Left is Killing Religion at http://www.faithandreason.com.au , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.faithandreason.com.au Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:33:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-77 I appreciate you for giving such a useful blog. this website was not only knowledgeable but also very artistic too. There are only few professionals who can think to write not so easy stuff that creatively. I look for articles about this topic.I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good. See [url=http://www.online-casino-gaming.org]casino online[/url] - casino online Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:42:25 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-74 Commercialism and large corporations with their behaviours change culture and encourage irreligiosity, just as does the socialist Left. There is however distributism and the socialisation objective of Labor Parties worldwide which could operate better if this generation wasn't so absorbed in itself despite its pleas on WYD to be standing up for Faith. A lack of reading of social hisory and an inability in youth today to go along to their local political branch meetings ( yes I include Labor politics here)is actually what is killing religion. - Michael Webb Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:37:18 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-49 A united United States of America and Israel and all the Jewish and Gentiles. - Gina Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:01:20 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-48 Ich Bin Ein Berliner! - Gina Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:58:49 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-40 I think she is wrong it is more the right killing relgion. Just look at how George W Bush and sarah palin have brought shame on penticostalism. Also look at how Obama and rudd are promoting a religous values based approach to goverance. MAybe what she meant was that the open and democratic ideas of the left are killing her religion which she believes is the only true relgion like any fundamentalist whether they be Catholic, prtoestant or Muslim. - Justin Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:02:43 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-37 A very perceptive piece by Mr. Auty, a name, I must confess I hadn't come across before. He outlines well the current and looming landscape of conflict between the faith and liberalism. Aggressive liberalism in the UK has one overriding objective. That is, to use militant Islam as a weapon turned against what remains of Christianity in these Islands. This agenda also seeks to enforce New World Order interests in the Middle East , by oppressing Arab nations, while simultaneously promoting the multi-faith and multi-culture in Europe. The basic premis of post-modernism, is that man is , or can become God. They declare war on the Christian faith, and the revelation that God became man. If man is becoming God in the post modern world, then he doesn't need any other authority to tell him what to do, because by definition and through his own efforts he is becoming one of the immortal ones. That is the code , I would suggest, that is embedded in all the talk about man evolving, 'and the new way'. The new liberalism is totalitarianism, because it brooks no opposition . I have no doubt, that the pressure will be on in the UK again and quite soon to have crucifixes removed from Catholic schools. Oddly enough, this will also prove the lie to the diversity point, because Catholics will be precisely the people who wont be allowed to exhibit diversity. These people are very , very cunning however, in the way they play their cards, because they do it , usually with continual reference to things taken out of context in the bible , like tolerance, respect for others , justice , etc. We saw this with Obama and abortion, when he tried to appear as a friend of pro-live, presumably for votes, by saying how horrible abortion is and how it should be reduced, and simultaneously supporting finding for abortion, funding itself, of course taken in part from the tens of millions of faithful Catholics in the US. So, in the UK, there will be a great appeal to not causing offence,. promoting love of neighbour, whilst at the same time, ruthlessly enforcing the post-modern agenda. The scale of the war that we are in, and I agree it is a war for hearts and minds, as Mr. Auty says, and not open warfare, as yet at least in the streets. It takes its cue from a failed form of Marxism and the people promoting it consider themselves the children of the revolution. The people in the UK , who are now High Court Judges, politicians, heads of industries. We must never forget that we are in a cultural and spiritual war, because that is the last thing these people want to see it called, as they want us to willingly to submit to this new liberal tyranny. ~Julian UK.~ - Julian Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:58:34 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-34 My dear fellow I did my research. I have more than a passing acquaintance with yoga and the ideas that underpin it. Adi Da has the appearance of a Westerner discovering the East and then carrying on from there, like a great many since the West's contact withe the 'Mystic East'. I cannot offer any logical refutation to 'mystical' system. I have more wit than those scientific types that think they can. But then I can offer no logical refutation of the delusions of a paranoid schizophrenic. And of course the monism, sorry nondualism, that is espoused provides a perfect defence for all manner of behaviour - I notice Adi Da has been accused of a number of criminal offences of a serious nature. I think it would interest you to research the mystics of the West, such as John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart, and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and the Orthodox East - in particular the Hesychasts and Imiaslavie (although these last were ultimately declared heretics and wiped out). I doubt any of this will make much impact. I've found your posts on other sites and know that it is foolish to hope that a person of strong beliefs will seriously consider points of view opposed to their own. See, this time I didn't refer to Adi Da as a deluded braindead moron, conman, sexual deviant and as crass and ordinary as any other cultist. I didn't.:) - Pietro Aretino Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:08:29 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-32 Apparently this blog is supposed to be attached to an institution which supposedly promotes deep scholarship--or at least pretends to do so. Arieto. Perhaps if you really did your homework like a true liberal-arts scholar would you will find that Adidam has nothing whatsoever to do with Orientalism. Adi Da was an American born Westerner who grew up as a Westerner and lived and taught entirely within a Western circumstance. Meanwhile the rest of your post tells us much about YOU and your ignorant pre-JUDGEMENT. The essays etc that I pointed you are part of the most sophisticated Spiritual, philosophical, and cultural communication ever given on this planet. And their is nothing at all "trashy" about them. Which make Auty's speech look and sound like kinder-garden stuff. - John Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:52:34 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-31 While bearing in mind that the above is only an article adapted from a speech, isn't applying the term 'postmodernism' to Marxist-influenced social engineering in a liberal democracy just a little bit misleading? Marxism is only the most sucessful of the liberal-derived ideologies, to which I thought cynical postmodernism is opposed. But then again, isn't 'postmodernism' only modernism on steroids, taking it's principles to their logical conclusion? - Duncan Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:22:16 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-25 I like dada. It's cheerfully absurdist. I don't like adidam - even if its justification sounds remarkably similar. Adidam is kooky easternish artsy trash that gives mysticism a bad name. Like many such sects it was hit with various accusations of financial, sexual and emotional abuse. Of course that's an ad hominem attack, but my dear John, you've no other substance. The Orientalism you propogate has been rubbished since such orientalism turned up. Darling, don't insult nihilism by going about nothing. - Pietro Aretino Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:54:23 +0100 http://www.faithandreason.com.au/index.php/all-articles/132-mr-giles-auty#comment-24 This address by Auty is little more than a collection of one-dimensional cardboard cliches. Would any of the professors or lecturers at Campion give it anything other that an F triple minus grading if it was submitted as course work? The sort of thing one would find in a narrow minded fundamentalist Bible college in the USA, and not in an institution that promotes itself as a place where deeply considered discriminative intelligence is valued and cultivated. That having being said, and because Auty was an art critic, and also a practicing artist please check out these these related references on Sacred Art and its relation to Western culture altogether. http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html http://www.adidabiennale.org/curation/index.htm http://global.adidam.org/books/transcendental-realism.html http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/transcending_the_camera/index.html Plus a reference on the politics and culture that inevitably flows from the perspective communicated via the above Sacred Art http://global.adidam.org/books/not-two-6.html Plus a selection of essays titled The Truth About Religion (God, science, and Reality altogether) http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-religion.aspx Plus a completely different reference which features a unique perspective on the relation between Western art of the past 100 years or so and Western culture altogether. http://artandphysics.com - John Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:38:00 +0100