” I’m not bitter. I’m just right. :)”
That tells me all I need to know. Millions of Muzzie’s think the same thing! And they think they are also “following His instructions.” This is why I quit going to church. Everyone there were just like you. They “knew” that they were “right,” and by extension the billions of people who were not members were “wrong.” Which, I guess is O.K., but it didn’t end there. They spent a lot of time in their meetings speaking out against all the “other” religions.
LOL! I kind of thought you’d take it like that. My lib in-laws up in the Chicago area are exactly the same. I tease them too. It’s sooo easy. But it’s sad, really.
Sad because they, like you, are cultural Marxists. How so? Think what Marxism is. It is saying there are no meaningful differences between people, so all outcomes should be the same. No difference between man and woman (hence abortion, feminism, women in combat, gay marriage, etc), no difference between industrious and lazy (hence unlimited unemployment benefits for the lazy and unlimited taxation for the hard working), and no meaningful difference between any two systems of belief (hence multiculturalism, globalism, and the moral equivalency of all religions).
That last point is where I seem to be meeting you. But if I may, I’d like to show you a contradiction in your own reasoning. Game? Try this: You say it’s wrong for me to believe I am right. Now follow this closely:
A. If I’m actually right (even if accidentally so - I’m not that smart after all), is it wrong for me to believe something that is true? Would you like it better if I believed something that was false? How could one carry on a rational mental life if one had to always say “I think I am right, so I must be wrong.” That is a recipe for a mental breakdown of the first order.
B. If I am actually wrong, then for you to know I am wrong, you must know what is right, right? And if you are sure you are right about me being wrong, aren’t you wrong to feel so right? Just like me? Shall I now equate you to a Muzzie, because you think you are right? Aren’t you being a bit dictatorial in being so sure I am wrong?
Well, I’d love to hear your response to this puzzle. Honestly, it really is tangled, and I never have solved it. The best I know to do is to keep it simple and honest. Being a conservative, I must believe there is such a thing as true and false, and that truth can be discovered, in science, economics, religion, everything.
I further believe that libs and Muzzies are truth-challenged, and that it can be objectively demonstrated they are living off a pack of lies. If I did not believe this, I too would be a cultural Marxist, ever learning, but never able to arrive at the truth, because that would be making myself better than someone else, and that is the greatest sin in Marxism, the belief in individualism and exceptionalism, the belief in transcendent, universal truth. Such a belief tears at the very fabric of the almighty Collective. And where better to begin at stomping it out than religion.
But that’s just simple-minded me. I eagerly await to hear how you have solved the problem. Your move ...
Peace,
SR