Posted on 12/16/2014 4:20:24 AM PST by Kaslin
H.L. Mencken once wrote a story analyzing a criminal event, which illustrates the difference between someone with fanatical outlook, and someone with a reasonable outlook.
The subject was a real event. A (reverend) minister in the Midwest had the belief that he had to be a sinless paragon of virtue. And he was very intolerant of sinners, believing them irrevocably condemned to Hell. Unfortunately, he strayed with his female choir leader.
The two, thus convinced that they had fallen from grace and were on the highway to Hell, decided to go hog wild with their sinning. So went on a multi-state violent crime spree, before either being arrested or shot by the police, I don’t remember which.
Mencken compared them with a common man who was a Shriner. While away at a Shriner’s convention, he would drink too much, then fall into the arms of a prostitute. But returning home, while he would have some residual guilt, he would nonetheless return to church on Sunday, and resume his life as a good husband and father.
Mencken then compared the two, and the relative harm they caused society and their families, and found the fanatic wanting, of course.
In any event, I use this story as prelude to what the Democrats have become.
Having denied God three times at their national convention, they have semi-endorsed atheism. But that is not enough for their satisfaction. They do not just want to despise God, but go to lengths to abhor Him and all he represents, in their quest to imagine themselves as “like unto God.”
So, to make a long story short, the Democrat party platform is now The Seven Deadly Sins, plus violating any other heavenly rule that they can imagine. Any and every part of religious obedience they do not just reject, but want to violate.
Unfortunately, just doing so themselves is not enough for them. They want to compel everyone else to abhor God as well. This is why atheists are split between those who just don’t believe, but otherwise hold a “live and let live” attitude; and those atheists who are vehemently anti-religious, and want to deny faith and religion to others.
Truly, a bunch of miserable people. Unable to pursue happiness themselves, they seek to deny others the pursuit of happiness. This seems to be what happens when you abhor faith in something better than yourself, and embrace the license of evil, hate, vanity and suffering.
Truly their motto was best expressed by Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost:
“Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”
BUMP
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