Shownotes Transcript
Progressivism has embraced moral and ethical absurdities as somehow 'true,’ even 'Post-birth' abortion is now seriously being put forward as just law in a number of states. Few people understand the genesis of this widespread thinking, where it came from, or just how deeply engrained and pervasive it actually is.
Because the abortion issue and all of the ‘right to life' debate emanates from the 'battle of ideas,' Brian examines the actual roots of 'progressivism' and the deadly serious, yet oddly infectious ideas of German philosopher Fredreich Hegel.
In his own words, Peter Singer, the modern progenitor of the idea of 'post-birth abortion,' explains WHY modern culture is so susceptible to progressivism and 'progressive- Hegelian' thought. Singer admits it is not scientific, though it pretends to be a 'scientific' examination of history and the history that is to come. Both he and secular philosopher, Brian Magee underscore that progressivism is, at its heart, a religion. Brian Johnston explains that many of our contemporaries, even those who may sit in pews in your church, self-described 'Christians,' in practice have been caught in their minds by the pseudoscience-religious appeal of progressive thinking. They have replaced Christian principles of 'self-evident truths' revealed in nature by the God of nature (Rms 1:20) with the emotionally attractive feelings of Hegelian conjecture.
Most importantly, Americans and Westerners (as this is an idea designed to undermine all of Western culture) need to understand it is PRECISELY Hegelian philosophy that spawned National Socialism (Nazism) and International Socialism (Marxism). Hegel is clear that the government, (der stadt) must be used to 'bring others' to its collective will, even if it may be against their will. The 'conflict,’ the struggle, the dialectic, 'der Kampf' entails forcing the revolution on those who 'just don't get it ... yet.'
You are in the battle of ideas. You must be prepared. The battle is on you now.