Hi Nathanbedford, nice to hear from you.
I do believe you captured the essence of Leftism in that one post of yours-and quite completely, too.
Whittaker Chambers was the first I recall who stated this aloud for the world in his immortal quote:
“...It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God...”
Thank you for that quotation from Whittaker Chambers that brings to mind an occurrence of more than a decade ago that reveals something about the character of those of us who post on Free Republic and reminds me that my thoughts about the leftists playing God are not original but come from Whittaker Chambers.
Years ago a Freeper by private communication offered me a copy of his book "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers because he knew that it was difficult for me to obtain the book here in Germany. He sent the book, he sent it without compensation, he paid the cost of sending it. It was his idea and it was very generous, is tells us something about his generosity of spirit.
There is something about the humility that animates the conservative view of the world and man's place in it that compares favorably to the unmitigated conceits of the man of the left.
