In his work of critical importance entitled "Man Against Mass Society," the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel writes, "..the fanatic never sees himself as a fanatic; it is only the non-fanatic who can recognize him as a fanatic; so that when this judgment, or this accusation, is made, the fanatic can always say that he is misunderstood and slandered...Fanaticism is essentially opinion pushed to paroxysm; with everything that the notion of opinion may imply of blinded ignorance as to its own nature....whatever ends the fanatic is aiming at or thinks he is aiming at, even if he wishes to gather men together, he can only in fact separate them; but as his own interests cannot lie in effecting this separation, he is led, as we have seen, to wish to wipe his opponents out.
And when he is thinking of these opponents, he takes care to form the most degrading images of them possible - they are 'lubricious vipers' or 'hyenas and jackals with typewriters' - and the ones that reduce them to most grossly material terms. In fact, he no longer thinks of these opponents except as material obstacles to be overturned or smashed down. Having abandoned the behaviour of a thinking being, he has lost even the feeblest notion of what a thinking being, outside himself, could be. It is understandable therefore that he should make every effort to deny in advance the rights and qualifications of those whom he wishes to eliminate; and that he should regard all means to this end as fair. We are back here again at the techniques of degradation." (Man Against Mass Society, pp. 135-136).
If pro-life activists were to barge into an abortion clinic shouting, "We're here, we're pro-life, get used to it," they would be promptly arrested and the secular news media would brand them as "religious fanatics" and "anti-abortion zealots." But when radicalized homosexual activists engage in such fanaticism, the same media remain largely (if not totally) silent.
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The hypocrisy of the secular media is sickening. Because they want to advance the homosexual agenda, they conveniently overlook stories such as this one. Even law enforcement stood by passively without taking any action. This is because Christianity isn't welcome by the liberals who are entrenched in positions of power. But homosexuality and lesbianism are.
Bravo Paul....Mr. John Hosty uses such techniques as he villifies both Christians and Christian opposition to homosexuality. Since he cannot advance an intelligent argument to support his views, he relies on manipulation and the "techniques of degradation."
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