Prevent the rise of Christian Nationalism, preserve the separation of church and state, and never allow anyone to use the power of government to impose their moral beliefs on others. That, in sum, is the main battle cry of the modern American left, one they rally around with passionate conviction, and one that resonates powerfully with a lot of non liberal citizens. Which is all truly ironic, because the left, the Progressives, the big “L” Liberals, are not only the worst violators of those principles in the last one hundred years, but in that same time period they have also produced the most despicable and downright evil expressions of religious zeal combined with political ambition. I know, I know, I have some 'splainin to do about this, so let me explain.
The first big lie around all this separation of church and state stuff is the idea that it applies only to those beliefs that involve God, or some kind of deity. That lie can be easily dispelled by transliterating the term “religion” and converting it, as is done in solving mathematical equations, to the term “Belief system.” Then we can see that belief systems don't have to refer to any god.
With that insight in mind, let's look at public laws, and realize that every law is based on, or at least informed by, someone's belief system. Every law on the books is put there because of somebody's idea about what is right and wrong. Every law is imposing someone's moral conclusions on others.
Many of these moral conclusions most all of us agree on. Such as the laws against murder, slavery, rape and theft. There are, however, people who don't agree with those conclusions; we call them murderers, rapists, enslavers and thieves. Most of us feel it is perfectly acceptable to impose those beliefs, our beliefs, on such people.
Next we must consider laws which don't have such widespread support, laws which reflect belief systems held by only a portion of the pubic. This is where we will hear the leftists shouting, keep your God based beliefs and laws out of our lives. It is forbidden to impose your religious values on others. They will then turn around and impose their values, which are based on their unproven belief systems, on the rest of us.
Such as insisting that every city, town and village must remove prayer and bible reading from the public schools. Sure, some of that is being rolled back at this moment in some few states, but just wait until the Democrats are back in power and, as promised, pack the Supreme Court. Then all their agenda will be back in full force.
Once again, it will be prohibited to ban burning the American flag, because that is free speech, but burning the flag of some other nation is prohibited as hate speech and ethnic intimidation. Every little village must accept pornography, and pornographic expression, no matter how much it violates the local beliefs. Abortion must be legal, as must homosexuality, same sex marriage and transgenderism. In fact, not only made legal, but be awarded government funding when needed.
Traditional moral education must be removed from public schools, but it must be replaced by leftist beliefs. Tolerance must be taught, but tolerance only of certain identified groups and beliefs. Other unnamed groups are to be ignored, discouraged and demeaned, all in the name of conducting some kind of intersectional judgment day.
The Liberals will respond that they are merely protecting marginalized folks who need protecting. They are not imposing their beliefs on others. But then we must consider laws that force bakers to decorate cakes in ways the baker finds morally repugnant. Why not just force him to produce a cake decorated with pornography? There is no difference once we endorse the concept that forcing some creator to create something they hate is acceptable.
Medical personnel are required to perform surgeries, such as abortions and transsexual procedures, with which they disagree. Some store owners are legally required to use transsexual pronouns which they consider delusional. Sure sounds like the left is imposing their unproven moral beliefs, their secular religion, on others.
As to evil, and which side has engaged in more of it, the question becomes a little cloudy. Certainly, on the subject of sexual exploitation of children, there is plenty of blame to spread around, with both left and right wing churches sharing in the guilt, and both liberal and conservative political groups also complicit in the crimes.
When we look, however, at the last hundred or so years of the history of this troubled planet, the left wing starts to look like the more evil side. While they can point to Chile under Pinochet, Spain under Franco, or Iran under the Shah as examples of right wing excess, the crimes of left wing ideology, such as in the old Soviet Union, or China under Mao, dwarfs those examples. Russia, because Ukrainian farmers stood in the way of collectivizing agriculture starved many million to death in the Holdomor. China, under Mao and in the interest of doing what they considered the the right thing in bringing China into modern times, purged multiple, maybe hundreds of, millions of people to death. All that evil, and much more left unmentioned here, was done in the name of doing the right thing according to somebody's unproven secular humanist belief systems.
Back here in the good old USA, the liberal churches don't have hands that are nearly as immaculately clean as they imagine. A barely remembered episode in recent history points that out. Remember the Jones town Massacre from 1978, when about 900 people were forced by their pastor, Jim Jones, into committing suicide by drinking poisoned kool aid? After that happened we were never really informed about what denomination Jim Jones, and his People's Temple, was affiliated with. The media was content to let us assume he was just a rogue fundamentalist preacher who got badly off the rails. Not so.
According to the book, “Cult City” by Daniel J. Flynn, Jim Jones was intimately connected to the liberal political establishment in San Francisco. In fact, he and his flock at the People's Temple (the name reveals the agenda) were instrumental in getting Harvey Milk, who at the time was the first openly gay person to run for public office, elected to become City Supervisor. Jim Jones was a radical left wing preacher, steeped in blasphemy and heresy.
The conclusion is that before we go off and think that liberal, progressive and wonderfully minded folks are nothing but good and never harmless, we should consider the kinds of evil they have proven themselves capable of. We should take that into consideration when they try to impose their values on us in the name of preventing us from imposing our values on them.
Even more, we should consider all that before we give our support to a new generation of left wing blaspheming heretics like James Talarico and Adam Hamilton. The campaign ads the good Reverend Hamilton puts out portray him as a reasonable, compromise minded man whose simple wonderfulness will bring good solutions to the mess in DC. Just as, it must be assumed, he influenced one of Americas oldest and largest Christian denominations, the United Methodist Church, into painfully splitting up.
Think long and hard about what kinds of horror such seemingly well meant liberalism has led to in the past, and are likely to lead to in the future if we let them. Don't buy into their myths about separating church and state, and by all means, don't drink their kool aid.
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