Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

In a message dated 2/18/2005 10:57:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, "jack syme" <drsyme@cablespeed.com> writes:

>If I am mistaken about the prevailing paradigm in the sciences, then I would concede the point.  Not that whether I concede or not matters, lol, I dont mean that!
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>My impression is that the leading paradigm in both sciences and the arts, is anti-Christian specifically, and the reason for that is not YEC.

>Apparently you and many others think I am wrong, I hope that is the case.

As a Catholic, I am tangential to what appears to be an internecine squabble over YEC and ID that is currently going on here, but I think you are certainly right. There was a deliberate move away from traditional forms in the '60s in the social sciences. Don't take it from me, here's a quote:
In The Divided Academy, published in 1975, two distinguished political scientists presented a detailed profile of the political orientation of faculty members of American colleges and universities. In a chapter on the social sciences, they cited Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding:

“During the 1960s… social scientists gained quite extraordinary access to power, which they employed for intellectually partisan objectives, ‘to promote social change in directions they deem[ed] necessary and desirable.’ Moynihan [sees] the social scientist as suffering from a kind of split personality, on the one hand as a scholar genuinely committed to an objective pursuit of truth, but at the same time as ‘a passionate partisan of social justice and social change to bring it about.’ The dominant ideological posture among social scientists is liberal left, a kind of upper middle class leftism which involves strong sympathy for the disadvantaged – ‘social scientists love poor people’ – but a total lack of appreciation for the needs and interests of the people in the middle, of values like stability and order. In particular, they would appear to have little sympathy with the desire for order, and anxiety about change, that are commonly enough encountered !
among working class and lower middle class persons… The presumption of superior empathy with the problems of the outcast is surely a characteristic, and a failing, of this liberal mindset (Moynihan, 1969, pp.178-179).’”

Liberal left is in opposition to traditional forms, especially religious, regardless of whether they are life sustaining for practitioners or not.

rich faussette
Received on Sat Feb 19 09:05:36 2005