Thanks, that was the message I had seen by Moore. The environmental movement has not only provided refuge for the commies, but for every wacko looking for a home. Liberals love it because it gives them a chance to be self-righteous under the protection of the “Green Church”.
“The environmental movement has not only provided refuge for the commies, but for every wacko looking for a home. Liberals love it because it gives them a chance to be self-righteous under the protection of the “Green Church”.” ~ epithermal
Exactly.
To back that up, try this:
Life Amidst the Postmodern Ruins
...Chesterton, although writing in 1907, had already diagnosed the pathologies of the left. In fact, his ideas mirror exactly what Polanyi wrote some 50 years later about the “moral inversion” of the left, i.e., the dangerous combination of radical skepticism and an unhinged, ruthless moral perfectionism unbound from tradition.
Chesteron writes of the socialist that although he may have a “large and generous heart,” it is “not a heart in the right place.”
And only a human being can have a heart dangerously set in the wrong location.
It generally occurs “when a religious scheme is shattered” as a result of their intense skepticism. When this happens, “it is not merely the vices that are let loose.” Rather, “the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage.”
Just because someone has a moral code, it hardly means that they are moral.
I have written a number of posts on the dynamics of this pathological process, which I thought that Polanyi had been the first to recognize.
But Chesterton also writes of how “the modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.”
Most every destructive policy put into place by the left can be traced to some Christian virtue gone mad:
i.e., feed the hungry, so steal from “the rich” and call it “giving,” or defending abortion on the basis of the sanctity of “liberty,” or encouraging every manner of deviancy under the guise of “tolerance.”
They have the bizarre idea that it is “easier to forgive sins” if “there are no sins to forgive” except for the sin of believing they exist. ...
More on this here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1932911/posts?page=5#5
And here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1932911/posts?page=4#4