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Saturday, December 03, 2005

The Rational Irrational Dialectic Part 3

Did you ever notice how people tend to have strict rules about how you are to treat them (rationalism/ dogamtic), but how they are nonchalant about how they treat others (irrational/ no rules). C.S Lewis picked up on this in one of his books (off the cuff I can't remember if it was "Mere Christianity" or "God in the Dock"). Even the most liberal antinomian can be very dogmatic about his liberal antinomianism.

The cat is out of the bag - this postmodern deconstuctionist rhetoric is nothing more than steroids for furthuring an autonomous universe. Pop culture anarchy on the one hand, and political statism on the other; yet both have their own rational/irrational dialectic at work within them as well.

It may not not have always been called "postmodern deconstructionism", but many have noted how similar are the ways that civilizations tend to decompose (see Herbert Schlossberg's, "Idols for Destruction", among others for a good Christian view of history.)

"But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up refuse and mud. 'There is no peace,' says my God, 'for the wicked.'"

Isaiah 57: 20-21

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