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Google Celebrates Their Religion
American Catholic ^ | March 31, 2013 | Donald R. McClarey

Posted on 03/31/2013 1:56:16 PM PDT by NYer

Ed Driscol notes that Google has a predictable manner of observing Easter. Ironic, since whatever else you could say about Cesar Chavez he was a devout Catholic:

“While two billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday on this 31st day of March, Google is using its famous ‘Doodle’ search logo art to mark the birth of left-wing labor leader,” Twitchy.com notes, adding that “Google’s Easter insult sparks Twitter backlash, mockery,” as well it should.

 

The timing of latest in-your-face politically correct homepage is oddly appropriate. As Dennis Prager has written, “You cannot understand the Left if you do not understand that leftism is a religion,” and one with its own sources of mythology. Back in 2006 at Tech Central Station, Lee Harris described French Marxist Georges Sorel (1847-1922), and the concept of the Sorelian Myth:

Sorel, for whom religion was important, drew a comparison between the Christian and the socialist revolutionary. The Christian’s life is transformed because he accepts the myth that Christ will one day return and usher in the end of time; the revolutionary socialist’s life is transformed because he accepts the myth that one day socialism will triumph, and justice for all will prevail. What mattered for Sorel, in both cases, is not the scientific truth or falsity of the myth believed in, but what believing in the myth does to the lives of those who have accepted it, and who refuse to be daunted by the repeated failure of their apocalyptic expectations. How many times have Christians in the last two thousand years been convinced that the Second Coming was at hand, only to be bitterly disappointed — yet none of these disappointments was ever enough to keep them from holding on to their great myth. So, too, Sorel argued, the myth of socialism will continue to have power, despite the various failures of socialist experiments, so long as there are revolutionaries who are unwilling to relinquish their great myth. That is why he rejected scientific socialism — if it was merely science, it lacked the power of a religion to change individual’s lives. Thus for Sorel there was “an…analogy between religion and the revolutionary Socialism which aims at the apprenticeship, preparation, and even the reconstruction of the individual — a gigantic task.”

Go here to read the rest. Leftism truly is a religion, a very sad and pathetic one.



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KEYWORDS: chavez; communism; easter; google; socialism
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To: informavoracious

Well use Bing or Dogpile.


21 posted on 03/31/2013 2:52:39 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: NYer

22 posted on 03/31/2013 2:54:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: NYer

Catholic maybe, Christian not!


23 posted on 03/31/2013 3:32:39 PM PDT by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: JoeProBono

Shouldn’t there be some horns in front of the bunny ears?


24 posted on 03/31/2013 4:22:47 PM PDT by NYer (Beware the man of a single book - St. Thomas Aquinas)
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To: NYer

Not on Easter sunday;-{)


25 posted on 03/31/2013 5:26:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: NoLibZone

I’m not pimping for Google, but Microsoft is just as guilty.
Ballmer and Gates were big contributors to the Wash St. gay marriage iniative.

And Gates is just as bit a statist / crony capitalist as Brin, Page, and Schmidt.


26 posted on 03/31/2013 5:31:04 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

In a number of places Google is seen as a front for information gathering government ops. So is FB.

Dont let them in your computer. I use startpage and I clean my cache everytime I get near FB and Google. Before and after.


27 posted on 03/31/2013 5:38:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Chickensoup

Just the fact that I’m on FR is a 99.97% indicator that I’m on every Eric (with)Holder list of subversives.


28 posted on 03/31/2013 5:42:14 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: NYer

Leftism IS a religion. It is also known as SATANISM.


29 posted on 03/31/2013 7:33:09 PM PDT by Waywardson (I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
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To: for-q-clinton
Share this on facebook.

That facebook image is incorrect. Google does not honor Muslim holidays (or Jewish or Christian or Buddhist or . . . ones). As a general rule, other than (I believe) Christmas, Google does not do "doodles" for any religious holidays, regardless of which religion.

30 posted on 03/31/2013 9:13:18 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Actually they did have an islam one they pulled on Veterans day.

Also they did do an easter one in 2000.


31 posted on 03/31/2013 9:38:12 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: nascarnation

In case you didn’t know Gates no longer runs Microsoft.


32 posted on 03/31/2013 9:39:36 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton
Actually they did have an islam one they pulled on Veterans day.

Nonsense. This is the logo you're talking about:

This is Google's normal logo:

Clearly, the "islamic crescent" that some people thought they saw in the Veterans day "doodle" was nothing more than the bottom of the letter "e" in "Google," peeking out from under the flag.

33 posted on 04/01/2013 3:43:49 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: for-q-clinton

Gates is the non-executive Chairman
It’s not like he’s “uninvolved”

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/bod.aspx


34 posted on 04/01/2013 6:45:20 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: NYer

http://www.duckduckgo.com


35 posted on 04/01/2013 7:10:10 AM PDT by GregB (Where are the Benghazi survivors?)
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To: GregB
It's time for the lefties to experience some pain. Turn off Google for their insult.
36 posted on 04/01/2013 9:17:34 AM PDT by old white guy
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To: Vaquero

I fully expect Bing stock to go up


37 posted on 04/01/2013 10:49:17 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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