Statists' religion is secular humanism. Even secular humanists initially called their belief system a religion, but then denied it so that they could have it exclusively promoted throughout the public school system. Leftism really is a religion. We have known that for a long time. Rodney Stark simply adds more insight into why this is true. Statism/Leftism promises a utopian "heaven on earth" and that is the bigger cause that gives Leftists meaning in life.
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04/03/2018 4:30:46 PM PDT by
DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA
EVIL would be a good start.
2 posted on
04/03/2018 4:31:42 PM PDT by
tomkat
To: DeweyCA
THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST
3 posted on
04/03/2018 4:32:26 PM PDT by
Jim W N
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04/03/2018 4:32:31 PM PDT by
SpaceBar
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- "Sedition"
- "Treason"
- "Divisive"
5 posted on
04/03/2018 4:32:43 PM PDT by
wtd
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6 posted on
04/03/2018 4:32:59 PM PDT by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: DeweyCA
7 posted on
04/03/2018 4:33:23 PM PDT by
rfp1234
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To: DeweyCA
A secular religion is a nontheistic communal belief system. It includes political religions. Among systems that have been characterized as secular religions are capitalism, communism, fascism, nationalism, Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, and the Cult of Reason that developed after the French Revolution. -- Wikipedia
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04/03/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by
x
To: DeweyCA
It is a religion. It’s laws they want to implement are its doctrines and the taxes they want to take are the offerings from the people to support the priesthood, the bureaucrats.
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04/03/2018 4:36:19 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: DeweyCA
You meen besides stupib! Gee, let me think, ;;;
12 posted on
04/03/2018 4:36:25 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: DeweyCA
Very close 2. I am going for EVILisms.
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04/03/2018 4:36:42 PM PDT by
Revolutionary
("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: DeweyCA
SJW = Marxism Lite
The SJWs are too dense to really learn the bogus ideology of Marxism (dialectical materialism), so it’s been stripped down to pure emotional tantrums. (Racist! Fascist! White Privilege!)
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04/03/2018 4:37:49 PM PDT by
Hugin
(Conservatism without nalism is a fraud.)
To: DeweyCA
I like to call Marxism and its social justice twin the “Control Left”. Ctrl-Left seems like a nice pairing with the “Alt-Right” that the media likes to pretend is a political force.
15 posted on
04/03/2018 4:39:50 PM PDT by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: DeweyCA
What Should We Call Secular Ideologies like Marxism and Social Justice?
The Established Church.
To: DeweyCA
What Should We Call Secular Ideologies like Marxism and Social Justice? Interesting...paganism is the first thing to come to mind.
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04/03/2018 4:46:46 PM PDT by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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04/03/2018 4:53:13 PM PDT by
yarddog
To: DeweyCA
All humans are born with a space for the absolute. When the self is mapped into the absolute, destruction follows for the self. When it is a societal norm, destruction follows for the society.
The name for it could be 'intellectualism', but it's ultimately arrogance -- sometimes born of an omission which is ignorance or being misled, or pride and arrogance.
Either way it is no different from the act of walking off the roof of a skyscraper. Your reasons for doing it won't change your fate. It's an error, unless you want to die.
This secular humanism, or intellectualism, is an error, unless you want to suffer, and then die suffering. There need be no moral or ethical injection into the debate.
The Tao was there before you were born. You don't need to be a Taoist to understand the wisdom in accepting that fact. Humans are the children, not the father, in any casting of the hierarchy of things either in the universe or in religion.
When the child of things thinks it is the father of things, the things will eat the child.
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04/03/2018 5:03:42 PM PDT by
tinyowl
(A is A)
To: DeweyCA
Statism/Leftism promises a utopian “heaven on earth” and that is the bigger cause that gives Leftists meaning in life.
Only if they live in a vacuum. History has shown us how those “utopias” really work. Liberals are blind AND stupid, if they really believe that hogwash. I suspect that the politicians who advocate such systems, are planning on being at the top of the heap, since they know full well that that system is just as segregated into classes, as any other.
To: DeweyCA
It doesn't make any difference what you call it. Any time a society has rejected God, from the French Revolution to the present day, the result has eventually been carnage.
Western Europe is dying today after 70 years of enforced atheism. No society that has rejected God has ever survived more than 100 years. The first thing people in Eastern Europe did when communism fell was to turn to God. It looks like Europe will find religion again soon. The problem is, the religion will be Islam.
To: DeweyCA
Collectivism ... even the sheeple can understand what it means ... and compare it to individualism ...
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04/03/2018 5:21:58 PM PDT by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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What should we call secular ideologies like Marxism and Social Justice?"Suicide cults.
28 posted on
04/03/2018 5:35:33 PM PDT by
Pajamajan
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