tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post5981941032009997942..comments2023-11-03T07:07:55.456-05:00Comments on CoPhilosophy: Week three comment 3 June 26, 2017Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-37590664395550851992017-07-03T19:52:39.962-05:002017-07-03T19:52:39.962-05:00Hi Don, I'm finally getting back to your quest...Hi Don, I'm finally getting back to your question:<br />Tranny of the majority:<br />The following is spoken of within the boundaries of government: Tranny can come for despots and dictators such as Vald III, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, or some better known despots such as Stalin or Pol Pot of Cambodia. We are familiar with this kind of tranny. These men ruled not as the majority, but as the minority. Tranny of the majority, I believe, comes from majority rule, such as in a true democracy where each person has a vote and whatever the majority wants, they get. Neither Mill nor our Founding Fathers wanted a democracy because they knew the end result would be tranny of the minority. Many times what the majority wants will be at the expense of the minority. <br />Fortunately for us, we have neither a dictatorship nor a democracy, but a representative republic where neither one individual nor the majority can rule. When things go wrong, and they will, they require correction. That correction would never take place in a dictatorship or a democracy. <br />Do you agree Don, or do you have a different opinion?<br />George Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443432806021134096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-3365211464719692532017-06-27T22:09:23.221-05:002017-06-27T22:09:23.221-05:00If Dylann Roof’s only criteria for victim selectio...If Dylann Roof’s only criteria for victim selection was that they be African American, he could have found any number of places where African Americans congregate. I submit that his criteria was just as much Christian as it was African American. In addition, none of the Christians that were singled out for murdered at the Umpqua Community College were African American. <br />The media, as well as opinion programs and comedians, do what they do in order to affect social and cultural thinking and change. They do and say incendiary things for the express purpose of influencing their audience and what they say is not said in a vacuum. To say it has no effect on society or culture or on those who are already bordering on lunacy, would be in direct opposition to their obvious intent. <br />What evidence is there that the two are connected? <br />I am simply employing current journalistic standards when I connect media’s relentless and persistent Christian bashing to Christian murder. By today’s standards, evidence is not a prerequisite for accusations. How much evidence did the NY Times have when they accused Sarah Palin of influencing Lee Loughner in the Gabby Gifford shooting? After that shooting and after Sarah Palin was accused of causing it, Maryland Democrat congressman, Steny Hoyer said, “Far too many broadcasts now and so many outlets have the intent of inciting people to opposition, to anger, to thinking the other side is less than moral. I think that is a context in which somebody who is mentally unbalanced can somehow feel justified in taking this kind of action. I think we need to all take cognizance of that and be aware that what we say can, in fact, have consequences.” <br />I agree with Hoyer…we all need to be aware that media has the power and the platform to influence millions of people; what they say has consequences and sometimes those consequences are dire, especially when someone like James Hodgkinson hears it. <br />George Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443432806021134096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-7088781270955415532017-06-27T10:22:06.444-05:002017-06-27T10:22:06.444-05:00He was targeting African-American Christians. What...He was targeting African-American Christians. What evidence is there that he was motivated by media hostile to Christianity in general?<br /><br />Mill, btw, endorses a secular worldview and rejects any notion that a religious worldview is prerequisite to virtue. His target is hypocrisy of whatever stripe.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-30083686418076370402017-06-27T05:49:13.991-05:002017-06-27T05:49:13.991-05:00You asked: "How does the "tyranny of the...You asked: "How does the "tyranny of the majority" play into this thought process?" I'll reply tonight. I will be on the road all day today with no Internet for my computer and I hate doing this on my phone.George Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443432806021134096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-6309534801770257162017-06-26T22:49:12.873-05:002017-06-26T22:49:12.873-05:00Nice post..!Thank you for posting this blog.
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How does the "tyranny of the majority&q...Don,<br /><br />How does the "tyranny of the majority" play into this thought process?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07943082944062234473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-72042992308182633632017-06-26T21:13:58.614-05:002017-06-26T21:13:58.614-05:00Hi Don,
As always, I enjoy your posts.
I believe i...Hi Don,<br />As always, I enjoy your posts.<br />I believe it was J Vernon McGee that said Christians are not perfect, but they are forgiven. Becoming Christ-like is an ongoing, day-by-day process of sanctification. Some are better at it than other just as some Christians stay on the milk of the word too long before moving to the meat of it, both in knowledge and practical application. Mill’s estimate of 999 out of a 1000 Christians do not act out what they believe was just that…an estimate; it was not a scientific study. On the other hand, the Barna Group that does research on Christians and churches concluded that only 9% of those who claim to be Christian actually have a Biblical world view, which means that 91% have a secular world view. That is not a whole lot off from Mill’s estimate. <br />When it comes to societal hostility toward specific groups, it is obvious to me that bashing Christians has been in vogue for at least 25 years. Morning TV shows, late night comedians, and the media in general, all denigrate Christianity on a regular basis. All of this bashing finally manifested itself in Christian murder. In June of 2015, Dylann Roof entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina and murdered nine of my brothers and sisters in Christ while they were having a Bible study. He did not enter a mosque and kill Muslims. He did not enter a synagogue and murder Jews. He entered a church and murdered Christians. Again in 2015, at Umpqua Community College in Weston, Oregon a gunman singled out Christians for murder during a shooting rampage. He asked them if they were Christians and the ones that said yes, he shot in the head. He did not single out Muslims or Jews to be murdered; he systematically selected Christians. Christians are being systematically cleansed via mass murder from the Middle East. So, even though many Christians are not being Christ-like to their fullest potential, many are doing so to the point of death.<br />Mill said, “Orthodox Christians who are tempted to think [as I sometimes am] that those who stoned to death the first martyrs must have been worse men than they themselves, ought to remember that one of those persecutors was Saint Paul.” (On Liberty, p. 27)<br />George Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443432806021134096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2619743764213415433.post-10582584976958193432017-06-26T18:49:53.486-05:002017-06-26T18:49:53.486-05:00Mill would, and pragmatists too. "Learn by do...Mill would, and pragmatists too. "Learn by doing." Talk is cheap. But every sect has its dead dogmas, and not just every religious sect. There's an orthodoxy among some disbelievers too. Mill here is appealing to everyone, to act from conviction and volition, not mere rote conformist habit. James (& Dewey et al) heard him.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115141650963300011noreply@blogger.com