The Bible actually talks to this. Whether you knew it or not, you just confirmed it.
Cheers, 'Pod
When I first read this book, I found it to be a spy thriller.
The second time I read it, I thought it was a political book.
The third time I read it, I realized it was a man's search for God.
And that was when the book really hit me. This passage from Witness explains it, and encompasses the conversation we are having on Free Republic today, as both of you readily see:
“...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...”
The left seeks to, and has largely succeeded in replacing God with Man on this earth. Some of us won't go down that road, and that makes us alien and outcast to them. I can't think of any badges, honors, or medals I would rather wear than that.
The ultimate guage of reality is the Creator’s perspective. Get some (perspective). It has been easily accessible all the time through the senses and verified by scripture. Unfortunately when a person is so far gone the only thing to bring them back to their senses is physical pain. Some never come back from being crazy and have to be put away.