“The nice thing about the left finding religion…”

You’re projecting here, I think. The left hasn’t “found religion,” not at all. Religion, especially Christianity, is anathema to socialists and liberals in its essentials.

Religion, and not in the sense that Ann Coulter used it in her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, is, ultimately, the belief in a higher power. If one does believe in a higher power, that certain concepts logically follow.

One of those concepts is the belief in “absolutism.” Christians and Jews, especially, believe in an ultimate expression of absolutism, The Ten Commandments. Other religions have other precepts, but I’ll focus on these because they are part of our common heritage. BTW, both Christianity and Judaism have other tenets of creed, but both society and law have embraced the Ten Commandment’s tenets as the fundamental precept for our laws.

And this is the problem for liberals and socialists.

They categorically reject absolutism. They embrace, instead, moral relativism. In short, the “if it feels good, do it” mantra of the 60’s.

It is no accident that soon after Gramsci’s Notes were translated into English, that the left embraced “separation of religion,” because it accomplished two objectives: Begin the isolation of religion in society with the end goal of removing religion from participation in the public square, and to begin to gain mastery of the educational system by removing a major obstacle to their agenda — school prayer.

Their logic behind all this goes something like this: If absolutes are allowed to be taught (i.e., “Thou shalt not kill,” or “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” etc.), as an embodiment behind the formal use of school prayer, then their goal of reshaping society into one that accepts communism cannot be accomplished. Instead of absolute prohibitions (”absolute good or evil”) which is deeply embodied in The Ten Commandments, the left needed to change the dialog into viewing human behavior in terms of “relative good or evil.” In other words, “good” and “evil” are situational.

If “good” and “evil” are relative and situational, then the left can justify all its behavior in terms of being for the “greater good,” including everything from confiscatory taxation, gun control, and to even Pol Pot’s genocide. Why? Because natural and Constitutional RIGHTS are also situational, even the right to life.

And now you know why the left embraces the concept that the Constitution is a “living document.” And also why the left embraces abortion and euthanasia.

But back to the left finding religion.

They haven’t. They CAN’T. Because they cannot accept absolutism in their philosophy. And if they can’t accept absolute precepts, then what good is belief in a higher being (or God) who mandated these precepts? Logically, if one doesn’t have to obey the laws of a “Supreme Being”, as things are relative or situational, then THERE IS NO SUPREME BEING to mandate anything. If there is not a supreme being, there is nothing to be religious about.

Therefore, the “religious left” as they call themselves are running a scam. At best, it’s hypocrisy. At worst, it’s deliberate fraud on their part. They may call themselves Christians or Jews, or whatever, but they embrace not the Word of God, but the moral relativism of man.

And therefore, they do NOT embrace religion, but cynically use it to advance their agenda.

georgej on October 14, 2007 at 5:15 PM