What are some of the assumptions and presuppositions of liberals?
Assumptions and presuppositions of liberals
Followers of liberalism often claim that they have no presuppositions and assumptions. It is possible that some liberals may believe this statement to be true. I personally don't believe that the liberal elite are that naive. It is much more likely that they find this "No presuppositions" claim to be a useful argument to deceive the ignorant. The reality is that liberals are confident and unquestioning of their belief in their presuppositions. They trust so completely in their vision that they can't understand how anyone would not make the same assumptions as those that they personally revere. In that light, it seemed that it would be a good exercise to list some of the unproven and unprovable assumptions and presuppositions with which liberals have become identified:
- Materialism: The unprovable presupposition that no God, no spirits, no heaven, no hell, no life after death, no angels exist.
- Naturalism: The unprovable presupposition that nothing happens because of God, or because of any spiritual cause.
- Uniformitarianism: The unprovable presupposition that there was no creation and there was no flood.
- Post-Modernism: The unprovable presupposition that there is no truth; no lie, no fact, no fiction, but only winners and losers.
- Chaos theory: The unprovable presupposition that there is no order, that everything is random, that observation and science mean nothing.
- Rationalism: The unprovable presupposition that the human mind can manufacture knowledge without the benefit of observation or revelation. This is the idea that rationalized speculation (making it up) is a source of knowledge and understanding. Of course, liberals firmly believe that their own creative stories are valid and yours are not.
Those are the main presuppositions but here are some more:
- The myth that all things are relative. The myth each person must find his or her own "truth," as if there were many truths rather than one truth. The myth that there are no absolutes. The myth that everything is "both/and" and that nothing is "either/or."
- The myth that it’s OK to reconstruct (lie about) history. The myth that it’s OK to reconstruct (lie about) the U.S. Constitution. Reconstructionism (regardless or the type) is a presupposition that is a synonym for lying.
- The myth that we all descended from fish. The myth that energy designed and created itself. The myth that living cells designed and created themselves. The myth of spontaneous life. The myth that hydrogen turns into people over time. The myth that there must be a mysterious law of nature, which can be not observed anywhere; a mysterious law that somehow works just the opposite of the Second Law of Thermodynamics creating evolution.
- The myth that enlightenment is exclusive to public schools.
- The myth that God is not active in our lives.
- The myth that there are many paths to God.
- The myth of inherent human goodness.
- The myth that God is not in control of every circumstance.
- The myth that we need not obey God.
- The myth that the Bible is not the Word of God.
- The myth that the Bible has errors in it.
- The myth that God no longer works in miraculous ways.
- The myth that human mind can interpret the Bible using reason (rationalized speculation).
- The myth that God does not give revelation through His Word, the Bible.
- The myth that if you do more good than evil, that will get you into heaven.
- The myth that there is no hell.
- The myth that socialism is compassionate.
- The myth that a living child is not a person because he or she has not yet been born.
- The myth that it’s OK to kill the old, the sick, or the disabled.
- The myth that it’s OK to commit fornication or to have lewd thoughts.
- The myth that you can help the poor by punishing the rich.
- The myth that you can help employees by punishing the employers.
- The myth that high taxes don’t hurt the economy.
- The myth that the government should spend billions on social programs, which have proven to be failures.
- The myth that the separation of Church and State means that the State must teach and be guided by the Secular/Religious Humanist religion.
- The myth that the judicial branch of the U.S. Federal Government should be the most powerful even though not elected.
Author/Compiler: Bob Stenson (unless otherwise noted)
Last updated: 2008-10-18 08:35:14
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