{"id":43908,"date":"2013-04-29T00:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=43908"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:45:33","slug":"a-few-days-ago-i-said-the-big-winner-of-the-gay-marriage-debate-will-be-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/04\/a-few-days-ago-i-said-the-big-winner-of-the-gay-marriage-debate-will-be-caesar.html","title":{"rendered":"A few days ago I said the big winner of the gay &#8220;marriage&#8221; debate will be Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patheos.com%2Fblogs%2Fmarkshea%2F2013%2F04%2Fthe-big-winner-of-the-gay-marriage-struggle.html&amp;ei=WfRwUZGLCsjxiQKL6IDACw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwDjOZAUdwN7MTFFApFyj61nOCqQ&amp;sig2=xdACIAjoMHdv0Aq5t9gPKA&amp;bvm=bv.45373924,d.cGE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">You can read about that here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tofspot.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/notes-from-untergang.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Now comes Michael Flynn <\/a>to link to some of the plans Caesar (in union with Mammon) has for breeding Lower Orders once an atomized society has lost the capacity to resist due to the destruction of the family.\u00a0 Here, for instance, is a quote from one of the Huxleyan gods, looking forward to a whole breeding stock he can\u2026 do things to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The buzzword among cognoscenti is \u201cpost-person,\u201d defined in a much-cited 2009<em> Philosophy and Public Affairs<\/em> paper by tenured Duke professor Allen Buchanan, as those \u201cwho would have a <em>higher<\/em> moral status than that possessed by normal human beings\u201d (emphasis original). Buchanan admits crafting chromosomal \u00fcbermenschen \u201cmight be profoundly troubling from the perspective of the unenhanced (the mere persons) who would no longer enjoy the highest moral status, as they did when there were only persons and nonpersons (\u2018lower animals\u2019).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDivide and conquer\u201d is the current strategy of hell, posing as \u201cfreedom from archaic morality\u201d but boiling down to the dissolution of all social bonds in the acid bath of relativism.\u00a0 Once that is finished, then the state and the corporation move in to do\u2026 whatever the hell they want.\u00a0 You got a problem with that?\u00a0 Well, pal, in the post-Christian pagan world, the\u00a0strong\u00a0do as they like and the weak suffer what they must.  Your fetish about \u201cpersonal freedom\u201d and \u201cconsent\u201d was cute back in the Teens when people went on about the sort of thing. But our civilization has moved past all that sentimental crap about freedom and dignity.  Now you do as you are told and like it.  And pretty soon, our genetic engineering programs will make sure that your kind is incapable of questioning or disliking it.<\/p>\n<p>O brave new world, that has such people in\u2019t!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about that here. 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