Logos

EDITORIALFrom this sort of reflection, false reports have it, an "agnostic" quences associated with such prac- "_the Christian elevated in con- or"atheist.") tice in society.science speaks of "light," "love" The issue between the actual The pseudo-Christian, for exand"joy" in connection with the founders of our republic and the ample, will vote for Jimmy Carterstate of personal being associated corrupt Thomas Jefferson is lo- because Jimmy Carter is self-cerwithsuch settings, cated in Jefferson's attachment to tiffed to be a "born-again Chris-By his or her works, one the evil world outlook associated tian," despite the evil which Car- •knows the Christian, as one, in with Francis Bacon, Thomas ter represents in practice. To thelike manner knows the Jew who Hobbes, John Locke, David pseudo-Christian cultists, theirrasharesthe heritage of Philo's Ju- Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas tional, spiritual realm has no effi- 'daism, or the true Islam compre- Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, and cient, cause-and-effect connectionhended by ibn Sina. John Stuart Mill. These latter, evil with the way in.which the worldThat addresses our attention, influences defined man as intrinsi- is ordered. To the cultist pseud 9-by emphasis, to the matter of cally a, variously, immoral or sire- Christian, like the lunatic cultist,Faith, and the test of truth of Faith ply amoral individualist beast. The Muslim Brotherhood followers ofin works• There is also the matter degraded British philosophical Ayatollah Khomeini, whatever iof the "ministry." Different asso- viewpoint was rightly denounced happens in the world is "God'sciations, among Christians for ex- by Immanuel Kant (in the Preface Will," the capricious will of an !ample, may choose to share among to the first edition of his Critique irrational, heathen sort of anthrothemselvesa specific discipline, of Pure Reason as "moral indif- pomorphic deity. The pseudo-The Catholic accepts St. Paul's ferentism." The British "empiri- Christian does not take responsiinjunction:"A little wine for you cists" deny any existing higher bility for being God's instrumentstomach's sake"--which happens morality, and degrade ethics to in the world.to he, we are expertly informed, such pragmatic conveniences as Our nation's forefathers, unsoundmedical advice. The Bap-' Hobbes's proposal for totalitarian- like those heathen cultists in_st, for example, rejects St. Paul's ism and Locke's related doctrine "Christian" disguise, defined theadvice on this point. The Baptist is of "social contract." This is also necessary ordering of society to benot, therefore, not a Christian. the standpoint of the Kennedy that of republics dedicated to fos-The Baptist has chosen a distinct Center for Bio-Ethics, the stand- tering the development and reali-"ministry," a distinct form of point governing the practice of zation of the creative powers ofshared discipline, designed to the "liberation theologists" of the individual, all to the purposeserve the Baptist in the realization Georgetown and Cuernavaca and of increasing man's dominion overof Faith. A Baptist who shares the pagan cultists of the diocese of the earth and in it, the duty toexcellent Rheingau wine with me Puebla. There is an historical con- learn from the continuing processat my table is a poor Baptist, but nection between British-style of creation and to make oneselfnot to be designated therefore as a "empiricism" and rabid, evil cul- and one's nation an efficient in-"bad Christian." It is poor busi- tisms of the Isis-gnostic varieties, strument for furthering the connessif a Baptist accuses a Catholic This "empiricist" outlook tinuing advancement of that proofnot being a Christian because spills over into cultist pseudo- cess of creation.the Catholic enjoys the dinner Christianity in those forms, in- The evil Jimmy Carter, likewine at my table, cluding "fundamentalism," in the evil Reverend Thomas Malwhichit is denied that man is thus before him, is a professedThe United states Under intrinsically capable of good. In "Malthusian," dedicated to ale-"Natural Law" Christianity, wickedness is located stroying that process of scientificWith the exception of such hea- in the child's failure to be trans- and technological progress whichthens as Thomas Jefferson, the formed qualitatively above the in- characterized the greatness of ourprincipal founding fathers of the fantile individual "me . . . mine," nation before his time. JimmyUnited States accepted the Chris- the failure to recognize the exist- Carter walks in the way of thetian faith, and the Neoplatonic ence of lawful ordering of cause- cults of the Ptolemaic Isis-wor-• _,, 1_1 9, •norton ot natural law consistent and-effect in the universe, the fail- shippers, in the way of thatwith Apostolic Christianity. In a ure to govern one's acts and acts "Whore of Babylon" from whose'certain sense, this includes Thomas of omission according to knowl- influence Jesus Christ saved _Paine, a professed "Deist" (not, as edge of the qualities of conse- humanity.84 August 1980 / CAMPAIGNER