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To: rktman
What I am going to say here is going to be misunderstood and probably going to be used against me, but I'm going to say it anyway.

Liberals are blind to the evil of jihad because, like "satanists," liberals subscribe to the chrstian worldview--and then root of the other side. Their antichrstianity is a very specific kind; it is not the antichrstianity of someone who disagrees with chrstian theology. It is the antichrstianity of one who only knows chrstianity as "religion" and then chooses to reject it; ie, the antichrstianity of a rebellious chrstian. The whole world becomes chrstianity vs. everything else, and just as they can only see religion in chrstianity, they can see only secularism in other religions. In their mind everyone from Siberian shamans to radical imams to Australian aborigines to shouting Black Pentecostal preachers to Hispanic Catholic peasants to Chasidic rebbes all blend together as one big undifferentiated mass that is the "victim of religion" (ie, chrstianity). All those shamans/preachers/rebbes/peasants are merely waiting for the nineteenth century European materialist philosopher to come and save them like a damsel in distress from the big bad "theocrat" (again, chrstianity). No matter how supernaturalistic, mystical, reactionary, irrational, or cruel, these other religions aren't identified as "religions" at all. They're "victims of religion" awaiting redemption by the secularist messiah in the form of the philosophy of Voltaire.

These antichrstian liberals still cannot accept that these other religions are truly religions. To the liberal mind, chrstianity is the only "religion" in existence and the only potential danger of "theocracy." Anything that weakens "the only religion"--even the empowering of radical fundamentalists of other cultures--is seen as striking a blow for secularism and against "theocracy." Yes, this is insane, but liberals are insane. After all, they are the people who in one breath declare life and the universe meaningless and in the next call for totalitarian mobilization to fight all sorts of "evils" (which can't exist in a meaningless world).

Let's take a look at the similarities in the attitude of chrstians and liberals to Jews just as an example of the above-described phenomenon. Neither sincere believing chrstians nor antichrstian liberals really appreciate Judaism for itself. To chrstians Judaism is a primitive "pre-incarnation" stage in the development of chrstianity that somehow got frozen in amber and is valued only for its role in the origins of chrstianity and for no other reason. To liberals Judaism isn't a religion but an ethnic minority whose existence and persecution by chrstianity illustrates the evils of "theocracy," the "goodness" of secularism, and the necessity of rejecting the idea of any objective truth in religion (since belief in objective religious truth causes people to kill one another--unlike the Khmer Rouge, I suppose). The Jews exist only to hit chrstianity over the head and to push the "separation of church and state." Like the sincere chrstian, the liberal can't wrap his head around the idea that Judaism might actually be exclusively true. Outside of being a persecuted religious minority, Judaism simply has no existence for him. Even Jewish worship and the totalitarian Theocratic discipline of Torah and mitzvot to the liberal has meaning only insofar as it challenges the objective truth claims of chrstianity (and therefore, so thinks the liberal, the very idea of objective religious truth). Like the philo-Semitic chrstian, the liberal declares his devotion to the Jews and Judaism, but like the chrstian he doesn't really accept the actual Jewish religion--only his personal interpretation of its significance in light of his own beliefs.

Chrstians of course like to point to this single-minded hostility by The Forces of Evil to "prove" that chrstianity is indeed the "one true religion." But that is no different from Catholics pointing to "satanism" (which is a sort of Catholicism-in-reverse) as proof of the truth of Catholicism. Just as "satanism" is to Catholicism, liberalism is actually merely "the other side" of chrstianity . . . its dark shadow or evil mirror reflection, if you will. Anyone sincerely opposed to all morality would oppose the moral codes of all religions. Those who oppose the moralism of chrstianity alone are blinkered mental juvenile delinquents rebelling against mommy and daddy.

Storm's coming. Gotta go!

34 posted on 08/08/2014 10:53:30 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Just curious-——why don’t you capitalize “Christian”?

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36 posted on 08/08/2014 11:02:45 AM PDT by Mears (thanks !)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

bttt


43 posted on 08/08/2014 11:23:39 AM PDT by The Californian (The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition. Bob Jones, Sr.)
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