Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy and Christianity

Dutch Uncle said:
What posts of his make you think so?

As it is, I see this and a few other threads as intellectual exercises. There's no right or wrong. There's the facts of history, such as the Tocqueville quotes, and there's the considered opinions of those discussing it on this thread. Obviously lesser minds and trolls are free to visit here too.

What is your opinion on the conversation? Anything other than trolling Cypress?
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The intent of these threads should be crystal clear, as you just articulated.

Naturally, the weak minded, the intellectually deficient, the lower life forms only see an opportunity to troll, insult, and contribute some monosyllabic grunts.
 
BidenPresident said:
Why?
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Because it's an inefficient monopoly and will bend you over the first chance it gets. Perhaps you should read more from writers of that enlightened era. Start with The Constitution, and ask yourself why the Founders created a central government with such limited power. Then graduate to The Federalist Papers for most of the answers. All of that is on the interwebs, totally free.
 
Jim Eagle said:
Because it's an inefficient monopoly and will bend you over the first chance it gets. Perhaps you should read more from writers of that enlightened era. Start with The Constitution, and ask yourself why the Founders created a central government with such limited power. Then graduate to The Federalist Papers for most of the answers. All of that is on the interwebs, totally free.
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Studied all that in college years ago. What about it?
 
In contrast, the religious idea that the highest good, the highest object of faith, is not itself fragile and not itself dependent on our practical activity – that idea is what I want us to let go of. I want to show that the best insights and practices in religious traditions are implicitly secular, and can enable us to recognize that the highest good is this life that we share.

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/interview-hagglund
 
To ground Marx’s argument, one has to overcome the religious idea that we dream of something beyond this life because it is inherently unsatisfying to lead a finite life. On the religious conception, regardless of how satisfying and emancipated our shared life becomes, we’re always going to long for something beyond this world, for eternal rest, whether the emptiness and stillness of nirvana or the harmony of heaven.

So one thing I’m trying to show is that those visions of an eternal life cannot actually fulfill what we desire and what we’re committed to in leading our lives.

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/interview-hagglund
 
Cypress said:
The intent of these threads should be crystal clear, as you just articulated.

Naturally, the weak minded, the intellectually deficient, the lower life forms only see an opportunity to troll, insult, and contribute some monosyllabic grunts.
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The knuckle dragging poo-flingers? Agreed.

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BidenPresident said:
You said we should not trust our government. You failed to give a reason.
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Oh really?

Jim Eagle said:
Because it's an inefficient monopoly and will bend you over the first chance it gets. Perhaps you should read more from writers of that enlightened era. Start with The Constitution, and ask yourself why the Founders created a central government with such limited power. Then graduate to The Federalist Papers for most of the answers. All of that is on the interwebs, totally free.
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