The Freedom To Succeed

Trump, Racism and Some Fallacies of his Opponents  I came across a Facebook post by a history professor at the University of Utah shared on a page. Some thoughts crossed my mind as I read it. I am happy to hear where I might be wrong. My observations are in blue. His essay/commentary is an interweaving of historical events that attempt to set a false premise that Trump is a racist.   It is a combination of fallacies, speculation, and conjecture.  While history is replete with much to learn. Applying its lessons with a bias towards an opinion does not make the argument valid. There is no evidence of history in this opinion that will repeat itself.  He is trying to fab ric evidence that does not exist. For the most part, his essay is crafted as an ad-hominem attack of Trump. "Racism 101 for those who pretend that President Trump is not spewing racism from the White House: Recall that race as nationality was used in the 19th century to discriminate ag...

Contrasting Philosophies The secular side of our society with the scientific method seeks to demonstrate that mankind ascended from some kind of slime or cell and therefore that amorality is a perfectly acceptable philosophy for worldly culture.  The philosophy of scientism, the idea that what science turns up is the sum of what there is doesn’t necessarily come from scientists, however.  It comes from amoral activists seeking to promote their philosophies. What we get from science is the vastness of what we don’t know and these activists don’t care to acknowledge that their lack of knowledge might have some effect on the ideals it takes to have a cohesive and peaceful society. They basically promote the ideology that there is no God unless science can prove it and that will never happen because they ignore the evidence. The theistic side believes that we descended from God. The first seeks through its philosophy to eliminate the godly perspective and power even though s...