The document discusses three "masters of suspicion" - Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche - whose philosophies influenced modern thinking and led to immense human suffering. Nietzsche's emphasis on the "will to power" influenced Hitler and WWII, resulting in 70 million deaths. Marx's views that religion was "opium of the people" and economic factors determined consciousness led to communist revolutions and mass famines causing tens of millions of deaths. While the political ideologies of Marx and Nietzsche have declined, Freud's system emphasizing suspicion of religion and human nature remains influential today. The discussion will continue next week on further analyzing Freud's impact.
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Rather than considering homosexuality, bisexuality, and gender diversity merely as emotional, gender, and sexual differences along a broad spectrum of human potential, some sectors of the medical, psychological, political, and religious communities force pathologizing language onto people with same-sex and both-sex attractions, and those who cross traditional constructions of gender identities and expression. This presentation investigates the history of the "medicalization" of LGBT people from without, and the struggles to reclaim the liberty of self-defining themselves from within.
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Throughout history, many dominant groups have depicted or represented minoritized groups in a variety of negative ways in order to maintain control or mastery. The representation of targeted groups is expressed through myths and stereotypes in proverbs, social commentary, literature, jokes, epithets, pictorial depictions, and other cultural forms. This presentation makes the clear and stunning connections between historical representations of Jewish people and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* (LGBT) people.
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Rather than considering homosexuality, bisexuality, and gender diversity merely as emotional, gender, and sexual differences along a broad spectrum of human potential, some sectors of the medical, psychological, political, and religious communities force pathologizing language onto people with same-sex and both-sex attractions, and those who cross traditional constructions of gender identities and expression. This presentation investigates the history of the "medicalization" of LGBT people from without, and the struggles to reclaim the liberty of self-defining themselves from within.
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Dr. John Oakes taught a class titled Christianity in a Postmodern World at the 2013 ICEC at San Diego State University. He proposes a rational Christian response to both the good and the bad which comes with postmodern thinking. The class covers the history of modernism and why it was replaced by postmodernism, as well as a brief bio of the major influences in the movement as well as suggesting both the strengths and weaknesses of the postmodern mood.
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Introduction to Philosopher Viktor Emil Frankl
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The rise of a civilization depends on the progress of science and technology, without which there would be no civilization.
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
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Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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3. We have seen some of the most beautiful
theology and amazing science when it comes to
the “one flesh” union of man and woman.
How do we reconcile it with our opening story
about the traders?
4. A Vision Spanning Heaven and Earth
“Pope Leo XIII was attending Mass [when]
suddenly we saw him raise his head and stare
at something above the celebrant‟s head. He
was staring motionlessly, without batting an eye.
His expression was one of horror and awe; the
color and look on his face changing rapidly …
Leo XIII truly saw in a vision demonic spirits who
were congregating on the Eternal City (Rome).”
Father Gabriele Amorth
An Exorcist Tells his Story
5. The Trial of Job
“The Lord said to Satan, „Have you considered my
servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a
blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns
away from evil.‟ Then Satan answered the Lord, „Does
Job fear God for naught? Hast thou not put a hedge
about him and his house and all that he has, on every
side … But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that
he has, and he will curse thee to they face‟ … The
Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in your power; only
spare his life.‟”
Job 1:8-2:6
6. The Pathway of Job
• The Beauty of Job: “There is none like him on the
earth” (Job 1:8).
• The Descent of Job: “Job said, „Let the day perish
wherein I was born” (Job 3:3).
• The Illumination of Job: “Then Job answered the
Lord: „I know that thou canst do all things, and that
no purpose of thine can be thwarted … Therefore I
have uttered what I did not understand, things too
wonderful for me, which I did not know … but now
my eye sees thee” (Job 42:1-5).
• The Restoration of Job: “The Lord restored the
fortunes of Job … and the Lord gave Job twice as
much as he had before” (Job 42:10).
7. Job’s Descent into Self
• The Loss of Fortune: “The Chaldeans … made a
raid upon the camels and took them” (Job 1:17).
• The Loss of Family: “Your sons and daughters
were eating and drinking wine … and they are
dead” (Job 1:18-19).
• The Loss of Health: “Satan … afflicted job with
loathsome sores form the sole of his foot to the
crown of his head” (Job 2:7).
• The Loss of Friends: “Then Zophar answered
[Job] … „Know then that God exacts of you less
than your guilt deserves‟” (Job 11:1-6).
• The Misunderstanding of Wife: “Then his wife
said to him … „Curse God and die‟” (Job 2:9).
8. An Attack upon the Family
• “[Satan] because of the many gifts of
God, which He gave to the man, became
jealous and looked on him with envy” (St.
Irenaeus of Lyons).
• “The family is placed at the heart of the
great struggle between good and evil,
between life and death, between love
and all that is opposed to love” (Pope
John Paul II, Letter to Families, #23).
Source: “On the Apostolic Preaching,” St. Irenaeus of
Lyons, trans. Behr, J., St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997, p.
49.
9. TheOutcomeofConceptions
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United
States.
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10. The thought of Pope John Paul II will help us to
enter into this mysterious attack upon modern
man.
11. Masters of Suspicion
“Ricoeur has called Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche
„masters of suspicion‟, having in mind the whole
system each one represents, and perhaps above all
the hidden basis and the orientation of each in
understanding and interpreting the humanum itself …
the thinkers mentioned above, who have exercised
and still exercise a great influence on the way of
thinking and evaluating people of our time, seem in
substance also to judge and accuse the human heart.”
Pope John Paul II
October 29, 1980
12. Masters of Suspicion & Ideologies of Evil
Sexual Revolution
“Culture of Death”
Still with us.
Father of the West
World War II
70 Million Deaths
Ended 1945
Tie to Adolf Hitler
Cold War
Massive Famines
Ended in 1990
Father of Communism
Sigmund Freud
Master
of Suspicion
13. Fredrick Nietzsche
• Born in 1844 in Rocken, Germany to a Lutheran
pastor and his wife.
• Studies philology at Bonn and Leipzig.
• Appointed chair of classical philology at Basle
University at age 24.
• During 1870, he worked as an ambulance orderly
in the Franco-Prussian war.
• Health quickly deteriorates.
• Goes insane in 1889.
• Dies in 1900.
Source: “The Portable Nietzsche,” Translated by
Kaufmann, W., Penguin Books, 1954-1982.
14. Fredrick Nietzsche
• “I raise against the Christian church the most
terrible of all accusations that any accuser ever
uttered … I call Christianity the one great curse …
I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.”
• “God is dead … we have killed him.”
• “Man is something that shall be overcome … All
beings so far have created something beyond
themselves … You have made your way from
worm to man, and much in you is still worm …
Behold, I teach you the overman.”
Source: “The Portable Nietzsche,” Translated by Kaufmann,
W., Penguin Books, 1954-1982, p. 655, p. 95, p. 124.
15. The Seduction of Power
• “I felt for the first time that the strongest and
highest Will to Life does not find expression in a
miserable struggle for existence, but in a Will to
War, a Will to Power, a Will to Overpower.”
• “I say: what is falling, we should still push … I am
a prelude of better players, O my brothers! Follow
my precedent. And he whom you cannot teach to
fly, teach to fall faster.”
• “I know my fate. One day there will be associated
with my name the recollection of something
frightful – of a crisis like no other before on earth
… there will be wars such as there have never yet
been on earth.”
Source: Forster-Nietzsche, “The Young Nietzsche,”
translated by Ludovici, A., London, 1912, p. 235.
“The Portable Nietzsche,” Translated by Kaufmann, W.,
Penguin Books, 1954-1982, p. 321.
Nietzsche, F., “Ecce Homo,” Translated by Hollingdale, R.,
Penguin Classics, 2004,pp. 96-97.
16. Adolf Hitler: “Life unworthy of Life”
• April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945
• “The gravest and most ruthless decisions will have
to be made … the demand that defective people
be prevented from propagating equally defective
offspring is a demand of the clearest reason”
(Hitler, Mein Kampf).
• Forced sterilizations/euthanasia beginning 1934.
• “As I was strolling through the Inner City, I
suddenly encountered an apparition in a black
caftan and black hair locks. „Is this a Jew?‟ was
my first thought … but the longer I stared at this
foreign face … the more my first question
assumed a new form: „Is this a German?‟”
• Deportation of the Jews beginning in 1942.
• Approximately 70 million total deaths in WWII.
Source: Hitler, A., “Mein Kampf,” Translated by
Manheim, R., Houghton Mifflin Company,
1927-1971, p. 255, 56.
18. The philosophy of Fredrick Nietzsche led to war
on an unprecedented scale. The philosophy of
Karl Marx led to famine.
19. Karl Marx
• Born in 1818 to Jewish parents in Trier,
Germany.
• Baptized in the Evangelical Church in 1824;
Confirmed in 1834.
• Attends Universities of Bonn and Berlin.
Receives a PhD in 1841.
• Meets Friedrich Engels in 1844.
• 1848: Communist Manifesto
• 1867: Das Kapital.
• Dies on March 14, 1883.Source: “The Portable Karl Marx,” Edited by
Kamenka, E., Penguin Books, 1983.
20. Karl Marx
• “Religion, indeed, is the self-consciousness and
the self-esteem of the man who has not yet found
himself … [It] is the sigh of the oppressed
creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the
soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the
people. The abolition of religion as the illusory
happiness of the people is the demand for their
real happiness.”
• “Atheism is a negation of God and seeks to
assert by this negation the existence of man.”
• “Then I will wander godlike and victorious through
the world and giving my words an active force, I
will feel equal to the Creator.”
Source: “Contribution to the Critiaque of Hegel’s
Philosophy of Right,” in “The Portable Karl Marx,”
Edited by Kamenka, E., Penguin Books, 1983, p. 115.
“Third Manuscript: Private Property and Communism,”
in “Classics in Political Philosophy,” edited by Porter, J.,
Pearson, 2009.
McLellan, “Karl Marx: His Life and Thought,” Harper
Colophon, 1973, p. 22).
21. Karl Marx
• “Individuals are dealt with only in so far as they
are personifications of economic categories,
embodiments of particular class-relations and
class-interests.”
• “The method of production in material life
determines the general character of the social,
political, and spiritual processes of life … It is
not the consciousness of men that determines
their being, but on the contrary, their social
being determines their consciousness.”
Source: “Das Kapital,” in “The Portable Karl Marx,” Edited by Kamenka, E.,
Penguin Books, 1983, p. 435.
“The German Ideology,” quoted in “Darwin, Marx, Wagner – Critique of a
Heritage,” Barzum, J., The University of Chicago Press, 1941-1981, p. 133.
22. The Fate of Workers: Thorns and Thistles
• 1917: Communist Revolution followed by Civil
War ( 9 million deaths).
• 1917: “Peace, land, bread” – Vladimir Lenin.
• 1917-1924: Reign of Vladimir Lenin.
• 1921: 1 to 3 million die in Russian Famine.
• 1924-1953: Reign of Josef Stalin.
• 1932-1934: 5 to 10 million die in Russian
Famine.
• 1949: Establishment of communist China.
• 1958-1961: 20-30 million die in Chinese
Famine.Source: Arnold, D., “Famine – Social Crisis and
Historical Change,” Basil Blackwell, 1991, p. 20.
23. DeathbyFamine(Millions)
Source: Arnold, D., “Famine – Social Crisis and Historical Change,”
Basil Blackwell, 1991, p. 20.
Carroll, W., “The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution,”
Christendom Press, 1995, p. 695.
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• Economic failure – particularly the
inability to produce sufficient food –
was a common reality during
Communism.
• More people died of famine during the
20th Century than other time in history.
• During the 1970‟s in Russia, food
production increased 1% per year, one
half of all farms operated at a loss,
one-fifth to one-third of crops rotted in
ground for lack adequate storage, and
food imports increased 1000%.
2
10
25
45
24. The first two “masters of suspicion” led to political
ideologies that have come and gone. The third
remains with us. It is the system in which we live.
We will take a look at it next week.
25. Next Week
To Shrink the Human Heart
Small Group Discussion
Starter Questions
1. How can you view larger societal events from a
spiritual perspective?
2. In what ways can you avoid – or help someone
else avoid – falling into the abyss of self?
Editor's Notes
#1: Architects of the Culture of Death, p. 41.#2: p. 321#3: God’s of Atheism,p. 69.
Architects of the Culture of Death, p. 122Architects of the Culture of Death, p. 121.