Astrology is one of those. The danger is in the spiritual realm, which is why The Bible warns about not having anything to do with it. In addition, it takes one’s focus off of reality, IMHO.

Liberals believe in Socialism and Communism, so it fits the pattern that they would believe in astrology.

attributed to Umberto Eco, it’s G.K. Chesterton’s quote:

“When men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”

Like astrology, Scientology, gubmint healthcare, The Won, spending your way out of debt, penumbras, emanations, anthropogenic global warming…actually, the list is almost endless…

If these wacky libs are so enamored with this “New Age” stuff, why did they get so ‘wee-weed’ up when Nancy Reagan consulted astrologer Joan Quigley?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967410,00.html

Cheers, Frank

Completely vague statements without details on how wonderful your future will be? Sweet promises that everyone knows that can’t possibly occur under given circumstances? Incredibly general (and false) statements to sway the greatest possible number of audiences?

I don’t know about you, but astrology is a very accurate description of Obama’s politics if you ask me.

That’s when the the first salvos of the war began. When you start to move into philosophy, you’re a part of that war.

I expect ’10 and to an even greater extent, ’12, to be a national referendum on liars and the lying politicians who support them.

Whole swaths of people who distrusted evangelicalism and/or Christianity in a politician will now take a second look at people who wear their morality and uprightness on their sleeves. I’m talking about people who have a track record of doing the right thing, not blabbermouths who play one on tv.

Great post, Moe. The secular socialists/Marxists in power now have relied on us not listening to our better angels. But we still have them and they are doing much more than whispering these days.

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In a western enlightenment based culture, astrology might seem strange…but tell that to my friends form India. Most of them base who they marry, what job they do and a number of other important life decisions on whether the stars align or not.

I am not saying I put any credibility in it myself, but for them it is a cultural thing, and given their divorce rates, they might be on to something…..

made the tabloids (back in the day) for supposedly consulting with astrologers. I think the old double standard goes for this too.

I wouldn’t expect them to distinguish the differences between astronomy and astrology.

It doesn’t get any better than this.

I wrote an article about the movie and the points Stein and the producers were making. The obvious danger in allowing bad science to trump all other thoughts or principles is highlighted by Stein linking Darwin to Eugenics to Hitler. The point made was that once you deny the existence of a higher power YOU become the highest power. Along with that comes all the failings of man; greed, madness, hunger for power and control.

I highly recommend watching it for no other reason than to listen to the arguments of the other side- mostly atheists. Some of their comments as to the origin of life are almost comical and would be so if they weren’t the driving force behind the corrupted science our children are being taught.

Here is the post-

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/12/14/ben-stein-strikes-a-cord-and-shows-us-climategate-isnt-the-only-science-corrupted-the-expelled-movie/

We we are seeing, in my opinion, is the communist/state first belief system exposing itself through the desire to eliminate “God” from the conscience of all mankind. As one of the scientist openly said in the movie.

Scary stuff and supported by most of the democrats.

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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

Why be surprised at the contradictions that liberals represent? It has been said that liberalism is a disease after all.

However, having about half of you Americans believing in ghosts is a little troubling.

However, having about half of you Americans believing in ghosts is a little troubling.

is why they believe. It’s also how people get suckered into thinking communism is a good idea, marx was right-on and so forth… They are the sort whom Barnum loved to see pay for the joy of seeing the egress…

“For the record, I don’t actually care if somebody believes in stuff like astrology. But fair’s fair, and if we’re going to have to listen to liberal elites sneering about creationists, said elites can take the time to explain why they don’t sneer at astrology devotees”

Well, “Millionaires don’t hire Astrologers, Billionaires do.” J.P. Morgan.

And, according to Business Week (quoted in Henry Weingarten’s “Investing by the Stars,” 1996 copyright), “This is the dawning of the Age of Financial Astrology. At a time when the market has rarely seemed more unfathomable, astrology is gaining popularity as a forecasting tool.”

And, astrology is “a time-honored if little-acknowledged Wall Street tradition. … Morgan kept an astrologer on staff, and scores of today’s analysts, brokers, and traders quietly rely on planetary data to help guide their investment decisions…” (Weingarten relied on astrology to accurately predict the 1990 Tokyo Stock Market Crash and the start of the Persian Gulf War).

You are correct that belief in astrology and New Age BS is an embarrassment to people on the left (like me). But it is important to understand why people like me worry more about the Creationists than the New Agers (although I ridicule both).

Creationists are on a campaign to undermine science education. We don’t find New Agers trying to present the “theory” behind homeopathy in chemistry classes, nor do we find them trying to present astrology along side astronomy in science classes. Yet we do find Creationists routinely doing exactly that.

I’m sure that readers here will be able to dig up some examples where New Agers have tried to impose their nonsense in schools (indeed, I encountered an example of something similar recently that had me fuming), but New Agers don’t come close to scale or the near success of the Creationist’s efforts.

produce embarassment, worry, ridicule and fuming. I can’t recall references to the research.

Oh, and if you wouldn’t mind, an additional note about whether those terms can possibly bear more than a subjective reference to phenomena occuring only within your own brain?

What freedom loving American cares what a person believes? Have faith? Don’t have faith. Have a deity, don’t have a deity.

Believe whatever you want to believe, but government stays out of it.

No funding anything of a “belief” system with pluralistic tax dollars. Let free market principles create opportunities for communities to donate and extend charity.

Stop funding all this science stuff. Government out of it, causes too much corruption. If something is worth pursuing, then Americans paying less taxes being redistributed to things they don’t want to participate in, will create the opportunity for science to make other discoveries.

Jerry Lewis and his gang have been raising millions for decades, irrespective of government, doing just fine in their personal endeavors.

If Republicans uphold free market principles, then it has to be about all such things not just the things they want to feel “entitled” to or want favor for.

We supply a military to protect the entire nation and all Americans, we get that.

Let Americans put their money where their interests lay not in what the government “thinks” their interests lay.

However, everyone wants their personal agenda favored so they rationalize, justify and excuse all the reasons why their particular cause “deserves”.

Either you’re about freedom or you’re not. You can’t be a little bit pregnant.