Monday, July 15, 2019

Only religious humanism can check growing nihilism


The so called Left -and assorted Marxist cults- fail to see the necessity of building bridges to the vast majority of the world's religious people . For them life is simply meaningless with God banished from the big picture." Trump is what is produced when a society severs itself from " from human religious instincts . I think the Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky understood this very well . In the old Soviet Union militant atheism led to a very evil mockery of " socialism ".
The hostility to Christianity , and Catholicism in particular , on the American Left will marginalize it forever. 
What kind of socialist EQUALITY party would outlaw religious freedom ? At the very beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution Lenin and Trotsky - long before Stalinism - declared their state " officially atheist " .
The worship of MATTER IN MOTION , of the GOD PARTICLE , of silly images of the BLACK HOLE will never snuff out the God consciousness of ordinary working class people.
" Trump is a product of this cultural decay .. " . So is the New Atheism and weird " Marxist " personality cults with members so much like the " Clears " in the daffy Church of Scientology ". No escape from " church " and " religion " after all despite Time Magazine announcing the " Death of God " on its front cover in 1968.
How odd that that neo-liberal Democrats are most zealous about checking religious freedom. It is a threat to the capitalist Culture of Narcissism where " the medium is the message " ?
Only religious humanism can check the insanity of growing nihilism , a high tech Dark Age .

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