Posted on 12/08/2020 4:03:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Question: What book is the opposite of the left?
Answer: the Torah.
The Torah is the Hebrew name of the first five books of the Bible, the "Five Books of Moses." The Torah is the foundation of the rest of the Bible and the rock on which both Judaism and Christianity stand. No Torah, no Judaism. No Torah, no Christianity. No Torah, no God, no divine creation, no Exodus, no Ten Commandments, no "love your neighbor as yourself," no Judeo-Christian values, no Western civilization and no America.
As I am about to finish the third volume of my five-volume commentary on the Torah ("The Rational Bible"), I can say with some authority that the Torah is the antithesis of left-wing ideas and values. It is not the antithesis of liberal ideas and values; it is the antithesis of left-wing values and ideas. A serious and committed Jew or Christian can be a liberal or a conservative; he or she cannot be a leftist. Left-wing Jews and Christians use Judaism and Christianity as covers for their real values -- left-wing values.
Here are examples of basic laws and values in the Torah that are the opposite of what the left advocates:
No. 1: "Do not show favoritism to a poor person in passing judgment" (Exodus 23:3). "Do not pervert justice. Do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly" (Leviticus 19:15).
The left advocates judging the poor differently. A poor man who commits almost any crime, including a violent crime, is not to be held to the same legal or moral standard as other people. As reported last week in the City Journal:
"In October, the Seattle City Council floated legislation to provide an exemption from prosecution for misdemeanor crimes for any citizen who suffers from poverty, homelessness, addiction, or mental illness. Under the proposed ordinance, courts would have to dismiss all so-called 'crimes of poverty' -- which, according to the city's former public-safety advisor, would cover more than 90 percent of all misdemeanor cases citywide."
Since Karl Marx, the left has not divided the world between right and wrong, as the Torah, Judaism and Christianity do, but between rich and poor.
No. 2: "Honor your father and mother" (the fifth of the Ten Commandments -- Exodus 20:12 and Deuteronomy 5:16).
Parental authority (as much as divine authority) is probably the greatest single obstacle to the left attaining control over a society. Therefore, the left, like all totalitarian movements and like all cults, has always sought to undermine parental authority. That is precisely what has been taking place in America over the past few generations. In every case, the diminution of parents' authority over their children is portrayed as reasonable and even morally necessary, but the end is clear: Allow left-wing laws and institutions to direct your children.
Your 9-year-old daughter says she is a boy? Your 9-year-old son says he is a girl? Neither you nor any therapist has a right to tell him or her otherwise. Your minor-age daughter says she is a boy and wants to start hormone therapy and even have her breasts surgically removed? You are in no position to stop her.
Parents who allow their young children to take walks by themselves are increasingly reported to child protective services. The authorities -- not you, the parents -- will determine at what age your children can take walks unaccompanied by an adult.
Even school breakfasts undermine parents' authority. One of the most fundamental things parents do for their children is feed them. But increasingly, progressive cities provide not only lunch but also breakfast for your child. The message is clear: We, not your parent(s), will take care of your needs.
No. 3: "Male and female He created them" (Genesis 5:2).
The distinction among human beings between male and female is built into creation. It is the only human distinction other than good and evil that matters. In the Torah, there is no built-in ethnic or racial distinction among human beings; God couldn't care less about race. But the male-female distinction is a fundamental part of the divine order.
No. 4: Race means nothing.
The creation of one human being, Adam, whose race is unknown, made it impossible to argue that race matters. This is another major conflict between the left and the Torah, given how important race is to the left. Adam, and therefore every human being, is created in the image of God -- and, of course, God has no color.
No. 5: Distinctions.
Distinctions lie at the very heart of creation. The left's war on the Judeo-Christian religions is rooted in its war against distinctions.
Male-Female: The left seeks to destroy this fundamental human distinction. The issue is not trans rights. If a person of majority age seeks to change his or her sex, the Torah is silent on that issue. The issue is the blurring of the male-female distinction -- forcing people to lie about reality and say, "Men give birth" and, "Men menstruate" or having men who identify as men, look like men and have a man's name publicly wear women's clothing, as Harry Styles did on the cover of Vogue.
Man-God: Karl Marx wrote, "Man is God." The left has always sought to displace God with man. The desire to be a god -- meaning the one who, rather than God, determines good and evil -- has tempted human beings since Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Good-Evil: On the left, good and evil are subjective. In the Torah, they have an objective reality. Moreover, the left's moral compass does not divide human beings and their actions between good and evil but between rich and poor, white and nonwhite, strong and weak.
God-Nature: The opening verse of the Torah ushered in one of the most radical innovations in history: God created nature; God is not part of nature. On the left, however, nature is God.
Human-Animal: On the left, human beings are just another animal. In the Torah, only man is created in God's image.
The left knows the Bible and the Judeo-Christian values that emanate from it are its enemy. The rest of us should, too.
This is a nonsensical statement. The rest of the article is ok though.
Except for the second paragraph, beginning with “..as I am about to begin...” where he word for word contradicts himself twice in two sentences. I actually like Dennis Prager, but he sometimes comes out with total idiocies. Arrogantly.
Eh, it’s not entirely accurate. But probably more accurate than you think.
The Torah is not a creation. It is an aspect of HaShem.
To paraphrase a Talmud quote lifted by Nazarene writers:”In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was G-d.”
It is an aspect of God as revealed to man. Had God not chosen to reveal himself in the Torah, God would still exist.
One of the biggest distinctions between the Left and the Torah is WRT personal responsibility. With the Left, there is none - you are a victim or an oppressor based on whatever (irrelevant) group you belong to - your race, economic class, religion, gender, etc. (or some combination thereof). Regardless of your actual guilt for your words or actions, you’re an oppressor. You can be an oppressor even if your ancestors or very distant relatives did something wrong - or a victim regardless of whether you actually and directly suffered some wrong at the hands of another, or instead if your ancestors or distant relatives did. Sometimes the alleged crime is a made-up one, creating imaginary victims and oppressors, all in the name if politics, of gaining power over others.
Compare and contrast with the Torah, according to which you are responsible for what YOU said or what YOU did. As mentioned, skin color and other irrelevant factors have exactly nothing to do with whether what you did was a sin or a good deed. This objective standard - i.e. Truth - is the bedrock upon which all of Western Civilization is based, and where it is in danger of failing are those who seek not Truth, but power over others - the Left.
The Torah would exist, whether it was revealed or not.
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How does he contradict himself there in that second paragraph?
It’s really the left versus any principles other than power.
"As I am about to finish the third volume of my five-volume commentary on the Torah ("The Rational Bible"), I can say with some authority that ......
the Torah is the antithesis of left-wing ideas and values. It is not the antithesis of liberal ideas and values; it is the antithesis of left-wing values and ideas.
Doesn't the second sentence in the above block exactly word for word contradict the first sentence and then the third sentence contradicts the second sentence? Or am I on heavy drugs?
The left uses race to divide and damage... This is an excellent piece... thanks for posting.
The left uses race to divide and damage... This is an excellent piece... thanks for posting.
Ping to a great one...
1. Thou shalt have none other gods before me. (Deuteronomy 5:7)
Whatever is our motivating supreme object of spiritual devotion and ultimate source of security, is our god, at least at the moment. The Left promotes creation - nature (includes humans) and materialism - as being the supreme object of spiritual devotion in whose interest all else must be subject to, seeing as if finds its source of security therein. Of course, the part of nature that is the ultimate god for many of them is their leaders. Who, as with the devil whose proxy servants there are, lust for power, to be as gods to whom all are to be dependent upon for sustenance and security, and give adulation and make obeisance to and which their supporters give them.
Note that when the true and living God calls for supreme worship, then it not as the selfishly devil seeks, for God needs nothing, (Acts 17:25) and is always giving, while man is the only creature in the physical realm that gives God grief. But making the only omnipotent omniscient and morally perfect Being to be your God is simply right and what is best for man. For created things will ultimately fail us and often mislead us.
2. Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. (Deuteronomy 5:8-10)
This flows from the former, with visible representations of their gods and their works - corruptions of the true and living God - being sacrosanct above all others, with anything that competes with or opposes being censored and targeted for extermination. A special mark which signifies this devotion and which is designed to compel obedience by requiring it for everything from travel to commerce, would be an extension of this.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:16-17)
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (Deuteronomy 5:11)
This goes along with having no graven images for worship, as just as they are forbidden, being corruptions of the one true God, so invoking His authority/name is an abuse of it. Likewise along with a sign of the required submission which the is increasingly required, would be the misuse of it, not simply what they would consider a misuse of their infrastructure (as we see in Internet censorship) but counterfeit use if the special mark which signifies devotion to the anti-Christ state.
4. Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. (Deuteronomy 5:12)
Just as a special day is given in Scripture signifying the culmination of God's created work (and in the NT, the resurrection of Christ signifying His perfect final atonement), so today Earth day is holy day of obligation in the world of the Left, and we can expect some mandatory observation of a day signifying loyalty to the liberal state.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Deuteronomy 5:16)
Flowing from rebellion against the authority of God is rebellion against any God-instituted authority when it acts according to the word of God, beginning with parents. The Left not only fosters children that have no father and thus look to the women as the authority, but they promote rebellion against any authority when it acts according to the word of God, and makes the liberal state the supreme authority, to which all are to look for sustenance and security.
6. Thou shalt not kill [murder]. (Deuteronomy 5:17)
Not content with fostering rebellion by children against any just authority, the Left promotes the murder of those which are the product of sexual union as well as the innocent elsewhere, from nursing homes to Islamic nations who murder Christians. Meanwhile consistent with its murder of the innocent, it opposes capital punishment for those to willfully take such life, all the while hypocritical professing to value life.
7. Neither shalt thou commit adultery. (Deuteronomy 5:18)
As part of its rebellion against God the Left also works to corrupt the family which depends upon stable life-long union btwn the husband and wife, and thus promotes fornication and fosters adultery if it even sees marriage as favorable, which it overall does not as compared to The Pill. Which it feeds females beginning in preteen years and for decades after. Thus robbing women of the rewards of motherhood.
In further degradation, the Left whole-heartedly promotes sexually joining together what God has placed asunder, thus perverting the most basic aspect of God-ordained human society.
8. Neither shalt thou steal. (Deuteronomy 5:19)
The Left seeks to appropriate what it has not merited, presuming as the intellectual elite that they should be in authority without meriting it, whether it be students taking over administration offices or via "occupy movements." Likewise it promotes the victim-entitlement mentality in which souls are seduced by the message that if they do not have what others have merited/earned (or as much) then they are necessarily victims of unjust oppression, for whom so many millionaire Leftists present themselves as saviors for, promising them such benefits as a matter of justice. Thus mercy (not getting what you actually deserve) and grace (blessings you did not merit) y others is rejected, since any lack is necessarily due to injustice, regardless of how less diligent one has been in meriting such. Thus race and not ability often becomes the overriding determinant in employment or enrollment in the name of combating prejudice and racism. Which must be overcome, but not based upon preferring one race over another but by rewarding industriousness and ability and morality regardless of race.
However, obtaining position by envious presumption, not worthiness, is just what their master did in presuming he was worthy to sit in the place of God, (Is. 14:14) and then essentially telling Eve that she was being treated unjustly by God, and that it was her right to be as God who needed to "share the wealth." And rather than suffering for disobedience, this power was to be justly obtained by disobedience to Him. But instead this resulted in the devil obtaining power while she and her (more accountable) husband who gave into her suffered. Likewise the self-assumed liberal elite end up being the only ones living in luxury as a result of seducing masses to put them in power with their lies.
9. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. (Deuteronomy 5:20)
The Left engage in deception as a craft, from their overtly biased forced "interpretation" of history to misleading the audience about current social issues - -including promoting harmful moral practices (abortion, fornication, sodomy, etc. ) as healthy or needed - to promoting fabricated ideas about the Bible and persons.
10a. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, (Deuteronomy 5:21)
It is within the Left that "open marriage" is treated as part of the lauded social liberation of society, if they esteem marriage at all.
10b. neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s. (Deuteronomy 5:21)
The ethos of the Left fundamentally sanctions and employs coveting/envy in promoting the victim-entitlement mentality from Hell in which souls are seduced by the message that if they do not have what others have earned then they are necessarily victims of unjust oppression, which the deceptive selfish liberal saviors promise to obtain for them as expressed under Neither shalt thou steal. (Deuteronomy 5:19)
WADR I disagree. Most Center/Leftists call themselves "liberals" (and many give them a pass) when they are in effect tiptoeing into communism.
This Prager video has a nice planation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE
As far as leftists misrepresenting themselves, and calling themselves things that are obviously false, like "liberal", or "honest", I agree with that too. In fact, I think leftists lie about pretty much everything, and they do not see any point to trying to follow the Ten Commandments, since they are usually atheists. I also agree that liberals can slip into leftist/communist views and ways, but I think that is not the same as saying that all liberals are leftist/communists.
Rush Limbaugh pointed out the other day that the anti-Communist (anti-Castro, anti-Soviet Union), and pro-America, liberal veteran JFK, was not the same kind of leftist as those who have overrun today's democrat party. Their philosophy today is not "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", but, rather, "get your country to do everything for you". Unlike liberals in the past, these leftists today want to take away basic human freedoms, such as free speech, and freedom of religion, and the right to freely assemble (with or without masks), etc.
Also, those liberals in the past, while often misguided about various things, were generally pro-America, and would never have dissed the flag or our national anthem, like today's nutball leftists do.
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