1. Actually....it's a question. 'Whose worldview is defined, characterized, by naive and impossible terms?'
Whose?
Now, I don't see any religious posters demanding that every person bend their knee to God, or attacking those who don't. But, daily, the bitter-haters go out of their way to denigrate believers, as believing in an 'invisible pixie in the sky," or as 'Bible-thumpers,' or using the pejorative 'Gawd.'
And here is the salient point: the majority of the sneering cult seem not to recognize not just a childishness of their own beliefs...
....but the downright danger to humanity of them.
2. Most of those jeering are totalitarians, mostly of the Liberal persuasion.
Theirs, the opposite view to the religious one, is Leftism....a religion unto itself.
The 'Left' would include every totalitarian belief, every political doctrine that stems from materialism/Marxism, that finds 'economic inequality' more important than identifying good and evil.
'Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.'
Prager, chapter 1, “Still The Best Hope”
a. As one of his friends later recalled, "Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin) had the courage to come out and say openly that famine would have numerous positive results...Famine, he explained....would bring about the next stage more rapidly, and usher in socialism, the stage that necessarily followed capitalism. Famine would also destroy faith, not only in the tsar, but in God, too." The Black Book of Communism, p.123-124.
b. 'There is no God':
This concept is an essential element of Marxism. As Lenin stated: "Atheism is a natural and inseparable portion of Marxism, of the theory and practice of Scientific Socialism."
If God exists and is in supreme command of the universe, He possesses discretionary power, and His actions cannot always be calculated accurately in advance. The whole edifice of Marxism collapses. When Marx and the Communists deny the existence of God, they simultaneously deny the authority of the Ten Commandments, the existence of absolute standards of right and wrong, of good and evil; and man is left on the playing fields of the universe without a referee, without a book of rules. The winning side in any conflict can decide on what rules of conduct to apply. Morality is the creation of the victor.
The Schwarz Report Essays
c. “Marxism reduced man to his animal wants and material needs….Marxism was a downward step from the human to the animal- a descent from civilization into barbarism, which is to say, from the worship of God to the worship of material things.”
Berman, “Terror and Liberalism,” p. 79.
The importance of religion, here, is that it give the value to human life, beginning in the idea of man created in God's image, and, therefore, each man's life is sacred.....as opposed to the materialism of communism, which shares no such concept.
Compare that view with this:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Calling such a view 'childish' would be far too kind.
Whose?
Now, I don't see any religious posters demanding that every person bend their knee to God, or attacking those who don't. But, daily, the bitter-haters go out of their way to denigrate believers, as believing in an 'invisible pixie in the sky," or as 'Bible-thumpers,' or using the pejorative 'Gawd.'
And here is the salient point: the majority of the sneering cult seem not to recognize not just a childishness of their own beliefs...
....but the downright danger to humanity of them.
2. Most of those jeering are totalitarians, mostly of the Liberal persuasion.
Theirs, the opposite view to the religious one, is Leftism....a religion unto itself.
The 'Left' would include every totalitarian belief, every political doctrine that stems from materialism/Marxism, that finds 'economic inequality' more important than identifying good and evil.
'Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view. Philosophically, the term implies that only material things are real.'
Prager, chapter 1, “Still The Best Hope”
a. As one of his friends later recalled, "Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin) had the courage to come out and say openly that famine would have numerous positive results...Famine, he explained....would bring about the next stage more rapidly, and usher in socialism, the stage that necessarily followed capitalism. Famine would also destroy faith, not only in the tsar, but in God, too." The Black Book of Communism, p.123-124.
b. 'There is no God':
This concept is an essential element of Marxism. As Lenin stated: "Atheism is a natural and inseparable portion of Marxism, of the theory and practice of Scientific Socialism."
If God exists and is in supreme command of the universe, He possesses discretionary power, and His actions cannot always be calculated accurately in advance. The whole edifice of Marxism collapses. When Marx and the Communists deny the existence of God, they simultaneously deny the authority of the Ten Commandments, the existence of absolute standards of right and wrong, of good and evil; and man is left on the playing fields of the universe without a referee, without a book of rules. The winning side in any conflict can decide on what rules of conduct to apply. Morality is the creation of the victor.
The Schwarz Report Essays
c. “Marxism reduced man to his animal wants and material needs….Marxism was a downward step from the human to the animal- a descent from civilization into barbarism, which is to say, from the worship of God to the worship of material things.”
Berman, “Terror and Liberalism,” p. 79.
The importance of religion, here, is that it give the value to human life, beginning in the idea of man created in God's image, and, therefore, each man's life is sacred.....as opposed to the materialism of communism, which shares no such concept.
Compare that view with this:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Calling such a view 'childish' would be far too kind.
