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Sixties Theology

By June Griffin

No movement is without its theology. Oh, they might not call it that... the Greeks may refer to it as a philosophy, yet doctrines and teachings emanate from theology, root word, theo - God.

Evolution has its theology, that is "Change" is its god. Whatever change is good for the body politic. Psychology has its theology - its goddess is Psyche - and this soul's theology is to save the soul by studying how to blame somebody else. Humanism's theology is in reality the old Deism, which states that while there might be a god who is whatever Man wishes him to be, yet this god is far away and has nothing to do with what goes on earth.

Since many of the disciples of Darwin, Freud and Marx taught in the universities of the Sixties, they faced a dilemma of how to remake Bible-based American students into

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agents of change. Karl Marx himself intimated that he would borrow from Christianity to render his philosophy palatable. But then the media's mockery at the McCarthy era eclipsed the guilt of such identified members of the Communist Party as Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Vivian Leigh and 97 other Hollywood Reds. Exoneration by glamour works, once one is endowed with the Power of the Air of Confidence.

Primary doctrine of the Sixties Theology is a half-truth from the Scriptures (what Christian would not be convinced by the words of Jesus?): "Judge not that you be not judged." The hammering of this expression was codified by a cute, black comedian who parroted: "Here Comes the Judge," mocking old-line judiciary and authorities. This doctrine permeated every avenue of authority, from Parents to Police Officers, who were stunned at the dress and perversions of liberty which were mirror images of the debaucheries of the French Revolution.

The effect of this theology was that Authority was reduced to begging for a chance to 'share' what one holds. "Sharing" has no base in truth, but is in reality the voicing of an opinion, a theological democracy where there are no absolutes.

Aren't you glad that the Declaration of Independence wasn't a collection of "shared opinions"???
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