COMMUNISM AND MODERN LEFTISM ARE NEARLY IDENTICAL:
“impervious to empirical evidence, scientific evidence, sociological evidence,” the Yale professor continued. “It is also an extremely sloppy theology that does not base its observations on human behavior....
...oligarchy becomes the priesthood” and the government becomes a theocracy with “a very active inquisition, with heretics who have to be expunged one way or another.”
...a totalitarian regime becomes totalitarian precisely because it is ideological...organized and systematic lying...
ideological lie, by contrast...seeks to impose a pseudo-reality upon reality. It does not depart from reality so much as [it] completely ignores reality and…it seeks to disrupt our normal access to reality...”
Taylor concluded the discussion by noting contemporary trends disturbingly reminiscent of communist ideocracies. He criticized the “hyper-bureaucratization of life” as well as a “persistence of perfectionism” and a “prevalent culture of activism,” especially on university campuses.
The latter two he described as a kind of fanaticism that is “always certain that the enacting of a certain program will bring an end to societal dysfunction and injustice.” This fanaticism, Taylor claimed, “is not driven primarily by unbridled passion, but rather is the result of an intellectual error, which should recall ideologies like revolutionary socialism” and their disastrous results.
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Excellent thing to notice. It looks like there is a vacuum that Christ-true faith could fill, but doesn’t fill any more. So communism, advanced socialism, and more fills it.
If we’re lackadaisical about the Holy Spirit, we might more readily pardon those who in desperation opt for unholy spirits that superficially approximate Him.