tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13643646.post4576996013280228742..comments2023-05-19T03:36:11.201-05:00Comments on Freedom Log: Freedom and IndividualismOne of Freedomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479227411431959461noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13643646.post-31778505080385450682009-03-11T21:33:00.000-05:002009-03-11T21:33:00.000-05:00Definitely it is strongest in the systems that wer...Definitely it is strongest in the systems that were created to protect the freedom to practice religion - yet in essence shut down the very freedoms meant to protect. As Taylor puts it - renders the conversations inarticulate. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment.One of Freedomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479227411431959461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13643646.post-69314211842306880192009-03-11T20:00:00.000-05:002009-03-11T20:00:00.000-05:00The anti-"culture" of hyper-individualism has its ...The anti-"culture" of hyper-individualism has its roots in the European Renaissance and the rise of the "culture" of scientism and its "religious" twin, individualistic Protestantism---both of which share the same reductionist presumptions about what we are as human beings and our relation to the World Process and Reality altogether.<BR/><BR/>Prior to the Renaissance the culture of Europe was focused on the contemplation of The Divine, or more accurately the culturally proscribed images and ideas of The Divine.<BR/><BR/>After the Renaissance the idea of The Divine was put aside and human beings and their latent possibilities became the entire focus of European culture.<BR/><BR/>Inevitably it did not take very long before the even the still existing half-baked ideas of The Divine were put aside altogether.<BR/><BR/>The godless anti-"culture" of modernism was thus born and completely solidified enabling Nietzsche to make his famous "god is dead" declaration.<BR/><BR/>He was completely correct. <BR/><BR/>The Divine Radiance and the possibility of an authentic Divine Life were completely banished from the European cultural land/mind/heart scape.<BR/><BR/>And where is this individualistic anti-"culture" most strong?<BR/><BR/>In Protestant/Puritan America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com