Category: “isms”

Note: if you see any errors, philosophical or otherwise, let me know…

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Think nothing of nihil-ism
Deny it’s right to be
Material-ism? Big mistake
At stake is what’s unseen

Combat consumer-ism
Or you it shall consume
Through “ad absurdum”, you’d reduce
Reduction-ism’s gloom

Relativ-ism wrecks
The quest for what is true
It breeds all rancid rac-ism
Brews narciss-ism too

Rational-ism? Absurd
Or Fide-ism? Boring
Each one, a poor one-wing-ed bird
T’ward truth and love unsoaring

Modern-ism muddles
A cocktail of false notions
Hedon-ism ends in puddles
Of sad or mad emotions

There’s femin-ism pure
And femin-ism crude
All truthward “isms” will endure
Yet laughed at, or eschewed

Capital-ism unmoored
By morals, festers greed
All systems which ignore the poor
Will civic peace impede

A marx-ism turned fasc-ism
Will smash religious strivings
Yet end up as “religion” brash
That dashes hopes of thriving

Aryan-ism errs
Supremac-ism cowers
All antisemit-ism bears
A reputation dour

Great Britain underwent
Debate on church and state
Over antidisestablishment-
-arian-ism’s fate

A “secular human-ism”
Must stand on sinking sand
The values that it values here
Are from a heav’nly land

God’s Son, Who from the sod
Took flesh to rescue earth
Sad “isms” He will heal, at last
When members of His Body dare to see…

And care to feel…

Their neighbor’s worth

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*Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave (Philippians 2)