{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

Holden,
There are two main political parties, Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado and Partido Liberal Radical Auténtico. They have far right Christian members. They support family values at least verbally. There is a Christian Democrat Party and Patria Querida (Dear Fatherland) whose members are linked to the Catholic hierarchy but they do not have much influence here. Next month is the general election, so the show must go on.

The President of the Republic, Horacio Cartes, is also a Catholic Christian and wealthy tobacco businessman and former president of a soccer club. And last but not least Monsignor Fernando Lugo became president in 2008 until he was removed from power by a coup d´ etat in 2012. Some important politicians belong to evangelical churches. All of these so called Christian would happily testify against Jesus if the Nazarene came back.

This reminds me that last year one of the bishops attacked the Masons for supposedly worshipping the devil. There was a Masonic summit of the region here.

Let me thank you about your explanation about materialism. You write: "Of course nowadays it is assumed that ideas are ‘what the brain does’, and that the brain is a material substance, but I don’t accept that."

I understand this clearly.  I remember reading an article about a German, Oscar Kiss Maerth, who said that intelligence can be eaten. Man came into being through cannibalism. 


Stay safe, ride carefully and avoid the snake-cobras.