Until we understand the powerful psychological tool the Left uses to cripple conservatives, we can’t avoid it or reverse it. This strong emotion is NOT what most think. Once you understand the difference between shame and guilt, it sets you free.
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11 replies on “The Left’s Most Powerful Tool: How They Cripple Conservatives with this Strong Emotion”
Let me get this straight. Are you really comparing Catholic’s teaching on the Eucharist to the liberal left’s view on transgenderism?
The shoe doesn’t fit. First of all, Catholics don’t require anyone to accept this view unless they call themselves Catholic, and even then the Catechesis of many is so lacking that they don’t know or realise that this is the view.
Secondly. I find it rather odd that a Christian would ridicule us on what is seen and observable, to talk about SCIENCE.. yet hold themselves to the view that Jesus rose from the dead. Because I can tell you with certainly that it is easier to believe that God created the earth in 6 days, that the entire earth was flooded, that a sea and the river both divided and gave way to DRY ground, than it is to believe that a 2000 year old man was three days dead rose from the dead and is still alive somewhere.
What’s more. If you believe in Christ, you must believe he is who he said he was, being the only begotten son of God. Therefore making him also of the same substance as God, yet being fully man and God. So, how can what is infinite and eternal become finite and perishable, subject to death?
Surely if you can believe the last, you can believe he can turn a small piece of our labor into his eternal self. And if none of these help me make my case, what will become of your own faith? It is only a matter of time until you turn even your own salvation into a metaphor.
the fine man will NEVER tell a real man what to do!! He would call the people with guns and let other people do his dirty work. Trans are homosexuals that are afraid to commit.
I would feel shame for America had America initiated the institution of slavery, but continuing a practice commonly accepted in the era carries no shame. The opposite is true. America was at the front of the fight to irradicate slavery, which has happened in western civilizations. Perhaps, some day, it will be irradicated in other societies.
The same holds true with Nazism. We make too few references between the national socialist movement of Nazi Germany, and fascist Italy, with the progressive movement of eugenics. This, too, lies at the feet of modern western progressives and continues to dwell in the house of Democrats as the pro-choice movement. There is no denying the epitome of eugenics was profoundly white supremist Margaret Sanger. She is still not disavowed by modern Progressive leftists. The right puts forth too little effort to remind the masses of this bastardized relationship and teach of the final phase of progressive eugenics – the Nazi death camps.
As far as guilt is concerned, attempt not to apply burden upon something of which I am not guilty.
Love the Norm McDonald reference – “The worst thing is not the hypocrisy, it’s the rape…” In my view, the worst thing is not the hypocrisy, it’s the lawlessness. By that I mean, the departure from the God-established laws of nature and moral absolutes.
This may be just a matter of semantics, but guilt isn’t a feeling or emotion, it’s a legal position. If I’m driving 66 miles an hour in a 65 MPH zone, I’m guilty of violating the law whether I feel bad about it or not. The awareness of guilt brings the emotion of remorse (shame) if our consciences haven’t been hardened. My Arabic ancestors were almost certainly involved in the slave trade, but the shame for that belongs to them, because they were guilty. Like Bill, I won’t accept shame for what they did, because I stand vehemently opposed to their actions. What the modern-day moral and civil lawbreakers are doing is projecting the shame that they deserve onto those who are not guilty – whether the issue is slavery, transgenderism, social justice, racism, or anything else that violates the laws of nature and of nature’s God.
The Royal Navy between 1810 and 1857 waged war on slavery. The vast majority of those sailors were white. Between 1861-65 500,000 died in a Civil War fought to abolish slavery and most of the dead were white as well.
Twice in my country’s history we have sent the services to wars in Europe to free people half a world away. In France and Belgium there are places where the soil is stained with more Australian Blood than any other.
I spent 27 Years in the RAN to carry on that legacy.
Hence I feel no shame or guilt but I have spent time studying history.
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I think you might mean shame vs embarrassment. Shame comes from knowingly doing a bad thing (shoplifting), but embarrassment simply casts you in a bad light through no fault of your own (you slip on a banana peel). In addition shame is often not realized until you are caught.
Peace without virtue will destroy our resources and humanity
I wrote about how Leftists are incapable of feeling guilt six years ago. Steve was even kind enough to link me at Instapundit & got me an extra 10,000 hits:
https://www.floppingaces.net/2016/02/03/the-left-has-two-huge-advantages-and-i-have-no-idea-how-we-overcome-them-part-2-of-5/
Bookmarked your site Bro, will check it out.
Not the direction I was expecting. Interesting take.