“Marxism scores over traditional religion for a certain kind of person because in Judaeo-Christian thinking you are supposed to examine your own conscience and feel bad about yourself; Marxism allows you to place all the blame onto other people and feel proudly self-righteous and anti-bourgeois when you do so. ‘Mea culpa’ becomes ‘tua culpa’. ”
(Quoted from Cinderella Bloggerfeller, post of November 4, 2002)
Stanley Kurtz has a particularly persuasive treatment of Leftism as a religion in National Review….
pointing out that “liberalism” also gives a feeling of mission, of belonging and of being on the side of the angels in a struggle with “demonic” conservatives.
He also shows how it offers relaxing simplifications of the real complexities of life in the way that a religion does.
Excerpt:
“Liberalism now functions for substantial numbers of its adherents as a religion: an encompassing worldview that answers the big questions about life, lends significance to our daily exertions, and provides a rationale for meaningful collective action…. Conservative opponents of affirmative action or slave reparations simply have to be imagined as monsters. Otherwise the religious flavor of the multiculturalist enterprise falls flat, and the war of good against evil is converted into difficult balancing of competing political principles and goods in which no one is a saint or a devil.”
Not all that surprising, their hero Uncle Joe Stalin didn’t like Christianity either. He did like the other side of the supernatural, as does the Stalinist Times:
“Liberalism now functions for substantial numbers of its adherents as a religion”
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The distinction that Liberalism makes, as crazy as it might sound, are the leftists own version of Good and Evil.
Van Jones was telling the truth when he said his was a “moral system”. He has every intention of labeling the people that stand before him as Good or Evil. Those deemed as ‘Good’ are considered allies. Those deemed ‘Evil’ are to be destroyed “by any means necessary”. If they already know who the bad people are, incriminating evidence is manufactured after the supposed crime. Evidence is planted wherever it needs to be put. Data is falsified…… Alibis are coordinated….
The rules be damned! This is a lynch-mob mentality.
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*Note – The bad people are chosen by their general impression that they convey, and not necessarily by anything they did wrong. Being disliked by the left IS a crime.
A rumor is evidence enough to condemn the Bourgeoisie…….the secular Infidels who blaspheme against the collective.
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Let us have a look at one of the two political religions that have been in power on German soil and attempted to bring salvation by the state: National Socialism and communism.
It is impossible to count how many billion times the Germans said ‘Heil Hitler’ during the Third Reich. To greet with ‘Heil Hitler’ was a strict law, and people were put into concentration camps because they refused to use this greeting. But only a few non-Germans realise that ‘Heil’ is the German word for ‘salvation’, which is extensively used in the German Bible translations. ‘Salvation Hitler’ or ‘Salvation through Hitler’ was the daily message that every German, including nearly all the Christians, preached to his neighbour daily. Although some tried to explain ‘Heil Hitler’ as wishing salvation for Hitler,1 the official meaning was clear: Hitler is the salvation for Germany and for the world.
“Georgians -who still venerate him – do not believe he was an unbeliever.”
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They just love him.
From Wikipedia, “Georgian Orthodox Church”:
“Following the overthrow of the Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917, Georgia’s bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church on March 25, 1917. These changes were not accepted by the Russian Orthodox Church or by the invading Soviets in 1921, who subjected the Georgian Orthodox Church to intense harassment. Hundreds of churches were closed by the government and hundreds of monks were killed during Joseph Stalin’s purges. The independence of the Georgian Orthodox Church was finally recognised by the Russian Orthodox Church on October 31, 1943, but it was still subjected to constant pressure and attrition in the post-war anti-religious campaigns of the Soviet authorities.”
“After Georgia gained independence in 1991, crowds tore down statues of Stalin and Lenin across the country, but hundreds of people gathered in Gori and refused to let the statue there be touched.
Recently, the fate of the statue has been a subject of debate in Georgia, with supporters of the pro-Western “Rose Revolution” that brought President Mikheil Saakashvili to power in 2004 arguing for its removal. Georgia’s Culture Minister Nika Rurua defended the authorities’ action on Friday, saying “I believe Stalin was a political criminal, who led the Russian Bolshevik army into Georgia in 1921, which eventually carried out Georgia’s occupation. Stalin was a man who created hideous autonomies based on ethnic division, which to this day continue to create great problems for Georgia’s freedom, democracy and consolidation. Stalin was a man who simply destroyed the best parts of Georgia.”
The left is willing to make deal with any interest group that supports the idea of a centralized moral authority; fascist dictators, Islamists, totalitarian communists…….all to eliminate any perception that people can control their own actions.
The state wants to outlaw everything that it considers ‘Evil’ (those things that cost more than they produce). This should really tick-off the ‘Legalize Marijuana’ crowd. And once government does a study and realizes that homosexuality contributes nothing to ‘the collective’, but drains the limited resources of our National Health Care system, the new Liberal sodomy laws will begin to appear.
It was progressives who originally banned alcohol consumption, and started our long war on drugs. It was they who started the idea of moral laws.
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God threatens to send you to hell, but liberals actually want to put you in prison for sinning.
And BTW, in the absence of personal responsibility, government becomes responsible for the evil acts that occur. Crime is no longer a personal weakness. Crime is redefined as a failure of government regulations.
Government, the new moral authority, is responsible for everything that goes wrong in society.
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18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Just as the love of money is the root of all evil, the love of religion is equally evil and utterly devisive. God’s love cannot co-exist in the heart with evil. Seek God, not religion. Obama sucks, fore!
“Marxism scores over traditional religion for a certain kind of person because in Judaeo-Christian thinking you are supposed to examine your own conscience and feel bad about yourself; Marxism allows you to place all the blame onto other people and feel proudly self-righteous and anti-bourgeois when you do so. ‘Mea culpa’ becomes ‘tua culpa’. ”
(Quoted from Cinderella Bloggerfeller, post of November 4, 2002)
Instead of the fairness doctrine. We need to have a fact doctrine.
The Liberal Media would not be able to survive in a world like that.
Stanley Kurtz has a particularly persuasive treatment of Leftism as a religion in National Review….
pointing out that “liberalism” also gives a feeling of mission, of belonging and of being on the side of the angels in a struggle with “demonic” conservatives.
He also shows how it offers relaxing simplifications of the real complexities of life in the way that a religion does.
Excerpt:
“Liberalism now functions for substantial numbers of its adherents as a religion: an encompassing worldview that answers the big questions about life, lends significance to our daily exertions, and provides a rationale for meaningful collective action…. Conservative opponents of affirmative action or slave reparations simply have to be imagined as monsters. Otherwise the religious flavor of the multiculturalist enterprise falls flat, and the war of good against evil is converted into difficult balancing of competing political principles and goods in which no one is a saint or a devil.”
Not all that surprising, their hero Uncle Joe Stalin didn’t like Christianity either. He did like the other side of the supernatural, as does the Stalinist Times:
Stalin and the Occult:
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/06/28/stalin-was-he-involved-with-the-occult/
“Liberalism now functions for substantial numbers of its adherents as a religion”
————-
The distinction that Liberalism makes, as crazy as it might sound, are the leftists own version of Good and Evil.
Van Jones was telling the truth when he said his was a “moral system”. He has every intention of labeling the people that stand before him as Good or Evil. Those deemed as ‘Good’ are considered allies. Those deemed ‘Evil’ are to be destroyed “by any means necessary”. If they already know who the bad people are, incriminating evidence is manufactured after the supposed crime. Evidence is planted wherever it needs to be put. Data is falsified…… Alibis are coordinated….
The rules be damned! This is a lynch-mob mentality.
-
*Note – The bad people are chosen by their general impression that they convey, and not necessarily by anything they did wrong. Being disliked by the left IS a crime.
A rumor is evidence enough to condemn the Bourgeoisie…….the secular Infidels who blaspheme against the collective.
.
That Pinch Sulzberger really fucked up the NY TImes hasn’t he?
Perhaps Sulzberger was a former alter boy.
The NYT are bigots- just ordinary generic bigots.
Larry –
Stalin entered a seminary. If he grew to hate christianity he had very real experiences to base that on.
Georgians -who still venerate him – do not believe he was an unbeliever. More likely he was underwhelmed
BTW I once went to a soccer match betwen Abkhazia & Gori ( Stalin’s home town ).
Adolf was also a catholic.
reality: “Adolf was also a catholic.”
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National Socialism as Religion
http://www.contra-mundum.org/schirrmacher/NS_Religion.pdf
by Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher
Chalcedon Report 1992
Let us have a look at one of the two political religions that have been in power on German soil and attempted to bring salvation by the state: National Socialism and communism.
It is impossible to count how many billion times the Germans said ‘Heil Hitler’ during the Third Reich. To greet with ‘Heil Hitler’ was a strict law, and people were put into concentration camps because they refused to use this greeting. But only a few non-Germans realise that ‘Heil’ is the German word for ‘salvation’, which is extensively used in the German Bible translations. ‘Salvation Hitler’ or ‘Salvation through Hitler’ was the daily message that every German, including nearly all the Christians, preached to his neighbour daily. Although some tried to explain ‘Heil Hitler’ as wishing salvation for Hitler,1 the official meaning was clear: Hitler is the salvation for Germany and for the world.
(continued)
“Our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.”
- Barack Obama
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“Our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.”
- Adolf Hitler
Uh, Duh!!
They’re forgiven, but they are still idiots.
“Georgians -who still venerate him – do not believe he was an unbeliever.”
________
They just love him.
From Wikipedia, “Georgian Orthodox Church”:
“Following the overthrow of the Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917, Georgia’s bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church on March 25, 1917. These changes were not accepted by the Russian Orthodox Church or by the invading Soviets in 1921, who subjected the Georgian Orthodox Church to intense harassment. Hundreds of churches were closed by the government and hundreds of monks were killed during Joseph Stalin’s purges. The independence of the Georgian Orthodox Church was finally recognised by the Russian Orthodox Church on October 31, 1943, but it was still subjected to constant pressure and attrition in the post-war anti-religious campaigns of the Soviet authorities.”
Stalin statue taken down in his Georgian hometown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10412097
25 June 2010
“After Georgia gained independence in 1991, crowds tore down statues of Stalin and Lenin across the country, but hundreds of people gathered in Gori and refused to let the statue there be touched.
Recently, the fate of the statue has been a subject of debate in Georgia, with supporters of the pro-Western “Rose Revolution” that brought President Mikheil Saakashvili to power in 2004 arguing for its removal. Georgia’s Culture Minister Nika Rurua defended the authorities’ action on Friday, saying “I believe Stalin was a political criminal, who led the Russian Bolshevik army into Georgia in 1921, which eventually carried out Georgia’s occupation. Stalin was a man who created hideous autonomies based on ethnic division, which to this day continue to create great problems for Georgia’s freedom, democracy and consolidation. Stalin was a man who simply destroyed the best parts of Georgia.”
The left is willing to make deal with any interest group that supports the idea of a centralized moral authority; fascist dictators, Islamists, totalitarian communists…….all to eliminate any perception that people can control their own actions.
The state wants to outlaw everything that it considers ‘Evil’ (those things that cost more than they produce). This should really tick-off the ‘Legalize Marijuana’ crowd. And once government does a study and realizes that homosexuality contributes nothing to ‘the collective’, but drains the limited resources of our National Health Care system, the new Liberal sodomy laws will begin to appear.
It was progressives who originally banned alcohol consumption, and started our long war on drugs. It was they who started the idea of moral laws.
.
God threatens to send you to hell, but liberals actually want to put you in prison for sinning.
And BTW, in the absence of personal responsibility, government becomes responsible for the evil acts that occur. Crime is no longer a personal weakness. Crime is redefined as a failure of government regulations.
Government, the new moral authority, is responsible for everything that goes wrong in society.
.
@gastorgrab.
The left has made deals with satan himself, there is no level that they will not stoop.
Romans 1:18-32
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This is what we are dealing with today.
Wouldnt you like to see the NEW YORK SLIMES go bankrupt close its doors then we can raize the building and buld a nice church in its place
Just as the love of money is the root of all evil, the love of religion is equally evil and utterly devisive. God’s love cannot co-exist in the heart with evil. Seek God, not religion. Obama sucks, fore!