Postmodernism challenges ‘truth,’ can complicate religous beliefs

Judging by the arrogance and grandiloquent language, the anonymous person is most likely Caleb though. He has a tendency to blame the professors at K-State because they have not educated the students to think like he does. Which is a good thing, because his beliefs do not agree with reality and reflect his privileged upbringing. He has never seen the people who have their livelihoods and their lands destroyed and who have to suffer through pollution on a daily basis. So therefore he says that there is no reason to worry about our pollution. It has not negatively affected him much, so according to his selfish ideology, he does not care.

Al Gore does not embody "the greens" as you like to call them. Scientists are skeptical. We see through your ridiculous points and would prefer that our daily habits and resource consumption are not negatively affecting future generations. But they are unfortunately. Caleb, go to Africa and tell them how Ayn Rand's philosophy will save them all. Tell them to be as selfish as you, and all of their problems will be solved. Then you may see how your philosophy only makes sense to the privileged. Or you may arrogantly assume you are always right even as the evidence builds up against you. The latter seems more likely for you though.

Pay particular attention to the section titled: "The Intellectual Roots of the Third Reich." "But German culture which became dominant in the nineteenth century and which coincided with the rise of Prussian Germany, continuing from Bismarck through Hitler, rest primarily on Fichte and Hegel, to begin with, and then Treitschke, Neitzsche, Richard Wagner,and a host of lesser lights....They succeeded in establishing a spiritual break with the West; the breach had not been healed to this day." "On 'Fichte's death in 1814, he was succeeded by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel at the University of Berlin. This is the subtle mind and penetrating mind whose dialectics inspried Marx and Lenin and thus contributed to the founding of Communism and whose ringing glorification of the State as supreme in human life paved the way for the Second and Third Reichs of Bismarck and Hitler.?

Shirer gives Kant a pass and he is wrong on that point. However, the above quote isn't even controversial.

Billy, reason and reality say that Algore is a fraud. Deal. With. It. Also, you treat science as a religion. Science is a rational methodology. In science being skeptical used to be a good thing, until the Green Cult tried to take it over.

To illustrate the results of their nihilistic ideas, I pose a question to the "post-modernists": what is the truth status of the gas-chambers and crematorium at Auschwitz? Ideas have consequences. Too bad KSU professors don't teach the evil results of their tired sophistry. Believing that "there is no such thing as absolute truth; two people could define truth in totally conflicting ways, but both could still be correct" would be difficult while you and your family are in a cattle car on the way to the "non-absolute" gas-chambers.

"In brilliantly reasoned prose, Peikoff argues that the deepest roots of German Nazism lie not in existential crises, but in ideas - not in Germany's military defeat in World War I or the economic disasters of the Weimar Republic that followed, but in the philosophy that dominated pre-Nazi Germany. Although it was mediated by crises, Peikoff demonstrates that German Nazism was the inevitable climax of a centuries-long philosophic development, preaching three fundamental ideas: the worship of unreason, the demand for self-sacrifice and the elevation of society or the state above the individual."

"These ideas," Peikoff says, "are the essence of Nazism and they are exactly what our leading universities are now spreading throughout this country. This is the basic cause of all the other parallels."