The problem is for those who don’t believe in God is not that they believe nothing, but that they’ll anything.
Fascism, Communism, all kinds of evil ideologies fill the God-shaped gap in such peoples’ lives.
This instinct wasn’t planted in our “souls” by “God.” It is implanted on our brains by the fact that the first year of an infant human’s life, it is completely dependent upon a god-like creature (usually called “Mom”) that comes when you cry out, looms over you, seems all-powerful, and takes care of all your needs. That’s a full year of training, folks. After that, you pick your new parent. God. The State. Nature. Whatever.
What an incredibly STUIPD statement.
for starters
1) Libertarianism, the opposite of Communism is an Atheistic Philosophy and they certainly don't want Big Government
2) Black of all the races are the most religious, followed by Hispanics. They are also the two groups that like a big all powerful government the most
Leftists know exactly how socialism and communism turn out. If a vain person wants to lesson their painful feelings of envy, from their perspective socialism and communism work every time. Many conservatives don't get leftists because they don't understand what makes them tick. Leftist goals are the very opposite of conservative goals of success and prosperity.
There is far more to it than that.
A recurring theme in the Bible is that of what could be called “Lucifer’s sin”, imagining that if one could elevate themselves, that they could be “as God”. It was the one thing that consistently merited punishment from God.
Taking over in Lucifer’s footsteps, time and again humans have tried to imagine themselves at the center of things, and been punished for it, and the socialists are no different.
Much of socialism is actually a *parody* of the early chapters of the Bible, different in that they rewrite the story so that God is not there, instead man is at the center of things.
But it is much abbreviated. They devote much of their philosophy to a single thing: the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They see it as the downfall of mankind, leading to civilization and history.
And they figure if they can just spit out that bite, and renounce good and evil and history, they will return to their version of the Garden of Eden, which they have renamed the State of Nature.
Incredibly stupid. But it is their faith.
“On the other hand (and I will be up front here and tell you that this is what I believe), it could be that this instinct was planted in our souls by God Himself as a way to help His children turn to Him and have faith in Him even though we can’t see Him”
An idea expressed by an apostle of Jesus two thousand years ago.
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