House of Eratosthenes

Political views and religious belief are indeed two very different things, and many liberals have even criticized the pseudo-religious trends in their movement and party. Nevertheless, some recent events should make us wonder just how religious liberal orthodoxy has become…Perhaps liberalism is more like a religion than we thought.
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“When a group confuses politics with moral doctrine, it may have trouble comprehending how a decent human could disagree with its positions,” [David] Harsanyi explained. This, he suspected, “is probably why so many liberals can bore into the deepest nooks of my soul to ferret out all those motivations but can’t waste any time arguing about the issue itself.”

The accusations are endless. If you don’t believe in liberal positions about climate change, the minimum wage or social justice programs, you must have been bought off — there simply is no other possible explanation. How could you hate the poor so much? How could you doubt established facts? How could you hate yourself?

“Don’t like big government? You’re a nihilist,” Harsanyi adds. Supporters of traditional marriage and sexuality are “transphobic, homophobic.” Pro-life advocates “may claim that you want to save unborn girls from the scalpels of Planned Parenthood, but your real goal is to control women — even if you’re Carly Fiorina.”

This move to silence the debate does not end with Twitter. Last month, 20 climate scientists petitioned President Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) — a law intended to fight organized crime — against people who “denied” climate change.
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Any mature Christian who has struggled with his or her faith has likely encountered the idea of theodicy, answering the question “if there is a good God, why is there evil in the world?” Christian history is rich with this perennial struggle — to explain God’s goodness to a world where injustice prevails.

Recently, liberal pundits seem to have taken up the cause of explaining why bad things happen to good people: we don’t have a large enough federal government. In May, an Amtrak train derailed, making national news. Who better to blame than congressional Republicans, who capped federal funding for Amtrak (a private for-profit corporation) at a measly $1 billion? Even as preliminary reports suggested the driver was to blame, liberals argued that a lack of “infrastructure spending” was the real culprit…congressional Republicans are to blame, because they were unwilling to dedicate more taxpayer dollars to the nebulous, job-creating savior “infrastructure.”

This thinking is so off-base it also proves an insult to religion, but sometimes liberal ideas can only be explained by comparison to faith.

Whether self-styled progressives question your ideas by calling you psychotic, demands that you “check your privilege” or blames all our woes on the insufficiency of big government, please understand that they are merely acting on the basis of firm convictions. We must not stoop to their level by questioning their motives or mental health. Only acknowledge that their faith can be as bigoted and entirely wrong as the most benighted religion.

Been trying this argument for years, after reading Coulter’s “Godless.”

Not a single liberal accepts the truth of it, no matter how much pure logic and how many devastating examples you use. In their mind, religion only involves a deity. Invoke one of the many deities they worship, and religion only involves blind faith. Provide example after example of liberal blind-faith, and the argument soon devolves to “religion is only something found on the right.” (Much like the endings of any discussions of ‘Were the Nazi’s Right Wingers’ or ‘Fascism can be found in both parties.’ This is something they literally cannot wrap their heads around, and they will immediately move to shut down the discussion with some of the most asinine arguments you’ve ever heard from a human mouth.)

Of course, if you want to reach that last point quickly, simply bring up “separation of church and state” at the same time as arguing liberalism is a religion. That causes the liberal crazy to hit the fan immediately.
- P_Ang | 11/04/2015 @ 13:54

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