The Left's Deceptive Loathing Of Judgment

Toogood Reports ^ | June 25, 2002 | Patrick Mallon

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We all make a hundred value judgments a day about who we will consort with (and why), what neighborhoods we'll enter, and what influences we want our children exposed to. However, the left cannot confess to the concept of judgment (even though they too judge). Leftist beneficiaries, and the number one money source of Democratic campaign coffers, are trial lawyers and judges who have twisted the legislature and courts into an anti-common sense money tree, but that's for another column.

The point here is that no matter the spin, the left's dirge of being "non-judgmental" is precisely the reason for their incapacity to influence increasing numbers of people. So instead they attempt to influence by intimidation and thought control. In fact, their morbid anxiety with the concept of judgment places them in the absurd position of attempting to discredit all exercises of judgment, especially those containing any hint of Judeo-Christian influence.

What is judgment? It is the action of forming an authoritative opinion. That means that an ultimate authority, God for those who believe in God, and a secular judge in the law courts for those who do not, renders a decision based on facts and moral responsibility. The left wants control. What better way to justify increasing amounts of control than to remove God as the self-policing agent in our lives, to be supplanted by a morally relative secular last word.

When Clinton sullied the White House, his sexual activities were "his own business." Yet today Linda Ellerbee and Rosie O'Donnell want their sexual preferences to be everyone's business, even little kids who watch Nickelodeon. The left can't get enough of attacking the 1-2% of homosexual Catholic priests for sexual misconduct, while at the same time excoriating the Boy Scouts for denying the demands of homosexual troop leaders to be out in the woods with young boys. Only the left can judge anyone else, and with the constraints of religious-based morality held properly in check by a complicit mainstream media, problem solved right? Not quite.

For every action these is an equal and opposite reaction. The result of moral relativism is a paralyzing national crisis of duty. This stalemate indeed affects our confidence and we are paying dearly for it in lost faith, trust and national wealth, both spiritual and financial.

The authoritarian nature of much of scripture, backed by judgment, and enforced by the conscience, functions to restrain evil. As well, the law establishes an authoritative value system upon which all else is built. That value system is addressed through one of two covenants, law or grace.

The left, seemingly more devoted to their agenda, reacted predictably when President Bush referred to the 9/11 murderers as "evil-doers. He called it the way he saw it, perhaps not even thinking twice that anyone could react to 3,000 dead Americans any other way.

Bush and the conservative right saw this outrage as immoral conduct that brought calamity, suffering and death with complete indifference to the value of human life. The left heaped scorn on Bush's moral judgment as offensive to many. It is to this extent that the left is able to rationalize constitutional legal protections to rats like "American Taliban" Lindh, a twisted punk out of Marin County, who was interviewed by CIA agent Johnny Mike Spann just before Spann was murdered.

If one lives under a sense of moral compulsion, they are also working at cross-purposes with true change. God changes hearts, not simply hands. In the work of redemption there is no compulsion. No external force is employed. Under the influence of the Spirit of God, man is left free to choose whom he will serve. The left has decided to serve the devil as a moral equivalent to God.

What the left cannot grant admittance to is the philosophy that when the soul surrenders to God, this is the highest sense of freedom. The expulsion of sin is the act of the soul itself. God changes the heart as well. This empowers the will to choose right over wrong. When we permit our communion with God to be broken, our defense is taken from us. Not all the good intentions in the world will enable one to withstand evil. This is why talking to the left is like talking to a tree.

The nation is in one of its deepest moral crises ever. Polls show trust in institutions slipping as a result of Enron, church abuse scandals, and FBI mistakes. It's called a confidence crisis. But the problem is far deeper.

"The fundamental strength of our democracy is based on trust," said Leon Panetta, a former top member of Congress and chief of staff in the Clinton White House, in an interview. "If we can't trust some of the basic institutions in our country, the underpinnings of civilization begin to erode." Mr. Panetta may feel smugly indulgent in that quote today, but when these words would have meant something, he was condescending, arrogant and silent.

Compromise, finding a middle ground, and offering concessions fails today because the left has nothing to offer. When the right advances sensible approaches as expressed on talk radio, conservative publications, and the Internet, they are foiled by a president and an administration unwilling to accept the risk (and the arrows) to do the right thing. Checkmate! And we are all hurting very deeply for it.

Americans are inherently fair-minded, searching for reasons in public debate. Power-grasping totalitarians on the left recognize this, and are always prepared to supply some plausible response that their moral relativism is based on tolerance and inclusion of the beliefs of many cultures, even those that want to murder us.

Atonement is an act of redemption, a genuine attempt to admit wrongdoing and seek forgiveness. Making amends for wrong acts after the fact wouldn't be necessary if the moral duty to arrest its occurrence in the first place carried any weight. It is this fundamental truth that has sent this country reeling into a clash with its own culture.

Whether it has the courage to admit the intoxication with immorality and seek recovery is another question entirely. We are still "One Nation Under God," a place where the truth means something, no matter how desperately hard the left tries to judge otherwise.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

The Left are the most judgemental people of all. They spew judgement venom at anyone who disagrees with their philosophy. They simply won't judge behavours that destroy society. I guess because that's the same behavour as their own! Talk about screwed up!!!

[FreeTally]

The authoritarian nature of much of scripture, backed by judgment, and enforced by the conscience, functions to restrain evil. As well, the law establishes an authoritative value system upon which all else is built. That value system is addressed through one of two covenants, law or grace.

It would have been nice if the author would have mentioned that, according to the Bible, we are under the covenant of grace since Christ's death, and such "authoritarian" laws from the "old covenant" are not appropriate or instructed by God.

[David]

One of the many things that is wrong with the court-justice system in America is that the overwhelming majority, perhaps 85%, of the judges are liberals, formerly liberal trial lawyers most of whom could not make a living practicing law, who became judges.

The defect in the system is that they don't want to make decisions that resolve disputes. You can walk into courtroom after courtroom across America and see this syndrome at work.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So...elect judges ?

[First_Salute]

Bump.