[Noumenon]

Thanks - I can't emphasize that particular aspect of the Left enough. Underneath all of the bromides and the blather lies a fundamentally inhuman and evil view of Man and his place in nature. It is worldview that is both godless and sick, sick with the desire for the power to remold Man in its image.

Historian Paul Johnson, in Modern Times laid it out pretty well:

Of the trio of great German imaginative scholars who offer explanations of human behavior in the nineteenth century, and whose corpus of thought the post-1918 world inherited, only two so far have been mentioned. Marx described a world in which the central dynamic was economic interest. To Freud, the principal thrust was sexual. Both assumed that religion, the old impulse that moved men and masses, was a fantasy and always had been. Friedrich Nietzsche, the third of the trio, was also an atheist. But he saw God not as an invention, but as a casualty, and His demise as in some important sense an historical event which would have dramatic consequences. He wrote in 1886: "The greatest event in in recent times - that 'God is Dead,' that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows upon Europe." Among the advanced races, the decline and ultimately the collapse of the religious impulse would leave a huge vacuum. The history of modern times is in great part the history how that vacuum came to be filled. Nietzsche rightly perceived that the most likely candidate would be what he called the 'Will to Power,' which offered a far more comprehensive and in the end more plausible explanation of human behavior than Marx or Freud. In place of religious belief, there would be secular ideology. Those who had once filled the ranks of the totalitarian clergy would become totalitarian politicians. And above all the Will to Power would produce a new kind of messiah, uninhibited by any religious sanctions whatsoever, and with an unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind."

And the new messiah today is...

[Tax-chick]

Yes, it is very important. People often seem to be fooled, even smart people. They think leftists really care about “equality.” No, they don’t. They care about the power to give life and especially to take life. That’s all.

[Jeff Head]

"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, as many evangelicals do. But in a pluralistic democracy, we have no choice. Politics depends on our ability to persuade each other of common aims based on a common reality. It involves the compromise, the art of what’s possible. At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It’s the art of the impossible." - Barack Hussein Obama

Exactly the slant and leaning you are talking about my friend...and Hussein is its most recent incarnation.

[Tax-chick]

Given the left's record from France in 1789 to Nepal in 2008, it's pretty obvious that their default solution for political disagreements is murder.

10 posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:04:39 PM by wideawake