Category: Religion

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Political philosophy Religion

I think that

any historical or empirical review of Socialism/Communism comes to the same place: It just don’t work. And I have to admit that it is really quite surprising to me that people are still fooled by this (See: NYC).

By every empirical measure, the socialist hypothesis has been falsified. And yet, socialism is catching fresh wind in its sails – not in Moscow, Havana, or Hanoi, but in New York City, capitalism’s capital.

… The incoming mayor’s policies have been tried and tested many times, and robust evidence shows they don’t work, putting their continued advance in the same category as flat Earth theory, Moon-landing denial, and chemtrail conspiracies.

Yes, the comparison to flat-earthers is apt, but there is also a “tang” of religiosity, a “culty” undercurrent in the far Left. And it works to prevent ANY debate or discussion with “the unwashed” unbelievers.

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Religion

I think it’s

absolutely true. There an argument that Leftism is merely a religion masquerading as a political movement. I mean, it’s pretty dang clear. There are dogmas that may not be questioned, heretics, ex-communication, sins, indulgences, many semi-autonomous congregations in various places, and an overarching clergy that directs the whole thing.

Yeah, it’s an old-school religion! A secular one, sure, but a religion nonetheless.

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Lefty Political Philosophy Religion

Now that we have

seen and experienced how good for the country a competent more conservative President is, why would anyone vote Democrat ever again? Why on earth would you go back?

Yet some do, and it is rather incomprehensible in all but a few ways:

  1. The person who is intra-psychically bound to the Democrats. Often this is rooted in family dynamics along with a pervasive “smarter than your average bear” defensive character process.
  2. A “religious conversion” that inducts them to the Lefty cult. And those who are attracted to that adhere to the cult’s ideas with religious intensity.
  3. A pollyanna-ish, wide-eyed gullibility.
  4. Frank sociopathy.

And most often it is some sort of combination of those factors. But the FACT remains that people go there. And they go back, over and over and over.

The dog returns to its vomit;
The sow returns to her mire;
And the burnt fool’s bandaged finger
Goes wobbling back to the fire.

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Religion

See, a faith that

only serves the trendy pablum of the day is not long for this world. I mean, is the anything more bland and milquetoast-y than Episcopalianism?

I suggest to you that there is not. And when a person or an organization starts endorsing everything, you know they actually believe nothing. And that is not exactly a clear clarion call to action and change.

I mean, if I can go hear the same things from attending my book club, why expend all that effort to go to church? The local pub may have the exact same “social support,” and great beer on tap, too!

Let’s just say that a lame and trendy religion makes a HUGE mistake. They have tried to make Christianity non-demanding and thus more appealing to people. But in doing so they have stripped their religion of any relevance or meaning or vitality.

The intention, of course, is to morph the church from the Body of Christ into an engine for social change. Everyone should feel welcome at church, but the societal engineering aspect is the reason for so many rainbow decorations, abortion literature, and the other trappings of Leftism. It is also why, on any given Sunday, you could drop a couple of crates of superballs from the ceiling and probably not hit anyone.  Once a church stops being about Jesus and the Word and becomes just another institution for combating “isms” and “phobias,” then it is no different from any of the other like-minded organizations out there. And then it becomes irrelevant. Which may have been the plan all along. 

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Cult of Leftism Religion

Yep, that is

exactly correct:

And at a more fundamental level, since leftism was (to invoke Tolkien again) created in mockery of Christianity, as the Orcs were created in mockery of the Elves, there’s a fundamental hatred there that can’t be tamped down for long.

And as I have repeatedly said, it is quite obvious that Leftism is a pale, secular imitation of Christianity. It has a clergy (well-paid in this case), orthodoxy, heresy and heretics, a form of radical asceticism, absolution for “sin” (indulgences), and conversion.

It is a cult, a malignant imitation of Christianity. It is indeed as the Orcs are to the Elves…

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Culture Religion

There is a lot

of action coming from a theistic front these days. And while it could be described as a sort of apologetics it is not the old, discredited apologetics of the early believers (as far back as the first century and continuing for 2,00 years)

No, this is a science- and statistics-based argument. One that shows that it is unreasonable to think that everything is merely a happy (but random) event. Not to get too “in the weeds” here, but the weak anthropomorphic principle is simply not holding much water these days. The “New atheists” have been pretty much discredited.

Twenty years after the new atheism coursed triumphantly across the West, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar is upon us. No less than Deity-denier Richard Dawkins marked the transmutation last year, via a viral video in which he called himself a hymn-and-small-c-church-loving “cultural Christian.” 

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Religion

Well, it’s pretty

interesting. It seems like the tide is turning back. The “tin gods” have utterly failed.

And it’s not some generic, namby-pamby New Age milquetoast Episcopalianism that is getting traction. No, it’s a religion that actually demands something of you. Indeed, a casual religion only provokes casual adherence…

“While some traditional denominations continue to face challenges, we’ve seen significant, broad-based growth among most expressions of Church – particularly in Roman Catholicism and Pentecostalism,” she said. “There are now over 2 million more people attending church than there were six years ago.”

… It’s no wonder Gen Z is looking for an anchor. Secularism, consumerism and hedonism haven’t provided answers, so the young are looking at the older ways. And now, an awakening similar to those in France and England has arrived on the American side of the pond.

And especially young men.

Folks, take heart; The kids are going to be OK…

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Religion

It’s Easter, so

it seems rather fitting to have a post on Jesus. And the HUGE question we should ALL face is this: What happened to the body?

We know from many sources that Jesus actually existed. And we know historically that he was executed by the Romans. And we have good evidence of an empty tomb after the execution.

And that empty tomb is a HUGE logical fly in the ointment for critics’ arguments! Because if the tomb was empty, atheists need to have a decent (non-religious) explanation as to why. But there simply is not one.

In addition, there are non-Christian ancient sources, such as Pliny the younger, Suetonius, Josephus, and Tacitus who made reference to Jesus. It wasn’t just a Christian crowd who reported what had happened. So yes, he existed.

And there is not a single explanation that doesn’t involve resurrection that makes a lick of sense. Even as an unbeliever one must confront the facts as we know them. And the empty tomb has religious, historical and logical relevance.

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Captain Obvious Religion

It’s not really

much of a surprise, now is it? Democrats go all wonky and irrational about Federal waste and abuse being exposed, so it’s certainly not a shocker to find that Democrat-run states are also HUGE grifters and liars!

After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits.

Gee, whoda thunk? Oh yeah, any sentient being…

I think that logically there are only three possibilities, here:

  1. Run-of-the-mill Democrats are innocently ignorant of the facts
  2. They are maliciously dishonest about the facts
  3. They are studiously and deliberately ignorant of the facts

I think that pretty much exhausts the logical possibilities, here. And there is some significant overlap between 1 and 3, and none of these are mutually-exclusive concepts. But given that the people are horribly wrong, it logically must be at least one of those three options. It could logically be all three.

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Culture Religion

So for the last

few decades, the numbers of people who identify as Christian has dropped. But it appears that the slide is coming to an end, and numbers are stabilizing.

Part of that is because, as is repeatedly shown in polls, generation Z or the younger generation is far more conservative than their generation X peers. And far more religious. Indeed, the strong tendency is that when a person is politically conservative they are more religiously oriented.

Those two things very much go together. It is virtually never seen that a person becomes more religious the more Lefty they become. That’s a very rare bird. And the opposite is a very reliable rule of thumb: They strongly tend to lose any religion they once had as they adhere more and more solidly to Leftism.

It’s like root beer and vanilla ice cream. They just go together. You could make a Pepsi float, but that is not nearly as common as a root beer float. And a traditionally religious Leftist is like at Pepsi float-certainly possible, but not at all likely or common.

So why is that? Mainly it is because Leftism is their religion–it has supplanted whatever religion they once had. They have converted to Leftism, and no amount of logical reasoning will disabuse them of that. Because Leftism has become their new, primary religion, and they hold those beliefs with religious intensity. Delusional intensity, actually.

The answer is simple, as I’ve been telling you for decades. And the numbers now bear it out. You left the faith if you were a leftist. And not because conservatives were “mean” or “lacked winsomeness”, but because the belief system of the modern Democrat Party is anathema to the Christian faith.

… Why does Woke Socialism repel Christian belief? The answer is simple: the left’s worldview is completely incompatible with Christianity’s core tenets.

The two just cannot live together well. One ends up loving one and hating the other!

But let’s put that another way. Have you ever met anyone who converted to orthodox Christianity and, as a result, suddenly started advocating for Drag Queen Story Hour, or abortion-on-demand, or the abolition of the nuclear family, or the deconstruction of the faith?

Read the whole article. It is quite worth the time and effort.