Posted on 12/17/2011 5:45:03 AM PST by Kaslin
p.s. Liberalism is indeed a religion and worships the creature and the creation but denies the Creator God and therefore is in condemnation for their hatred of truth. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by Him.
And that is the dirty little secret. They can not "prove" their postion that God does not exist no more than I, as a Christian, can "prove" that he does. Thus, both positions share one thing: it takes a leap of faith to get there.
[Generations of leftists could overlook 100 million dead catalogued in the Black Book of Communism]
Truth indeed. Yet they always mock Christianity about the evil times of godless murders of innocent Christians by the church of godlessness, but communism is ammoral and the murdered peoples are multitudes more than the victims of evil religious murderers in priests garbs of old. Communism, of which socialism is the child of, has murdered more people than any religion on the earth ever has.
Religion’s role in society is replaced by liberalism; charity, morality, sexuality, and basic concepts of freedom, property, liberty and ‘rights’ are all re-defined.
Maybe this is the lefts form of the American Holocaust. Like Stalin’s Gulag’s or Mao’s starvation of dissenters. America’s left has found a way to “off” millions of its “non-desirables” by denying them medical treatment, a PC way of mass murder.
IMHO...Religion requires faith, without which many of the precepts that form the foundation of belief can not be proved. Without the faith, one might question things that the faithful might not be able to answer convincingly. Faith in God isn't debunk-able as, say AGW is. Atheists can not prove (to anyone but themselves) God does not exist, and believers can't prove to them He does. Stalemate. Faith bridges the gap, a bridge usually built by some life changing event.
Liberalism is religion the way Greek Mythology was religion. Logic and common sense can pretty much destroy it, but liberals are emotionally invested such that logic and common sense do not penetrate. Their emotion epitomize the term blind faith. In leftism, unquestioning faith is required or it falls apart. And liberals, within their means, are every bit as nasty to the unfaithful as are Muslim jihadists. The more excellent the counter argument, the more bile generated in the ranks of the faithful towards the bearer of truth, which is why liberal atheists are so nasty in their aims and disposition towards Christians. Liberalism is an ungrounded religion, which is why liberals are so angry and unhappy.
Liberalism: Symbolism over substance.
This in fact is the most obvious objection to Obamacare. One that I am shocked that is not made more often.
Personally, I think that a certain amount of decorum is in order regardless of the setting. Consider the lies that BO told during his SOTU. It was generally recognized that, despite lying his face off, it was the inappropriate time for someone to stand up and call him out. Not that BO shouldn't have been chastised for shamelessly using the SOTU to propogate lies, but just that there is a time & place - whether in congress or in the church.
Personnally, when I have heard a pastor telling lies from the pulpit, I have called him on it, in no uncertain terms - just not in the middle of his homily.
Still, a very good summary to save & keep for the sanctimonious folk who "believe" in ObamaCare.
...as well as Communism, Socialism, Political Correctness, Green Politics, and all other “Progressive Politics”...
The American left has openly been engaging in mass murder for decades. And the justifications for it are just as arbitrary as those that Stalin or Hitler used: people who have no utility to society can legally be killed as long as they are dependent on others for survival. Although the initial victims were the very young, reaching a certain age no longer confers legal protection.
They don't need any justifications at all. The ban on DDT alone has killed over 100 million people.
Most leftists need to be in a rubber room, put in the stockades, mocked, caned and driven out of the country, tried for treason and hung.
You know, I think this is true.
After decades of socialist indoctrination by the schools, and the assault on reason, reality, and objectivity by modern intellectuals, libtards are no longer able to think, or refuse to think, and all they can depend on for guidance is their emotions.They become emotionalists, and their emotions becomes their reality.
It is like a watered down version of fascism or communism where it substitutes the worship of the State and/or “Dear Leader” for God.
Yes it is, with articles of faith that can’t be questioned.
You can find whole families out there who've been emotionally living off their ideological commitments for generations.
Politics, ideology, being on the left, say, is the most important thing for them.
But to say that a set of views that you disagree with is always and everywhere in itself a religion is going too far.
Rev Denis Fahey nailed it, calling liberalism “unconscious collective messianism”.
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