This is a good article, but there is a mistake here, that is an important one.
Can a Jew not hold and live by the principles this country was founded on? How about a hard working Japanese engineer, whose family was Shinto but does not himself have religion?
It’s not religion that is the basis of America’s freedom and prosperity. It is a principle held by all the founders, and in their case it derived from their religious beliefs, but it was not religion, it was that principle, that was the basis of American liberty.
The Cultural Marxists intentionally attack Christianity because Christians mostly hold and live by a principle that makes them immune to the very methods they use to put over their agenda. It is the same principle held by the founders.
From the article:
“The foundation and key strategy of the consensus process is the knowledge that all individuals have an inherent fear of being alienated from the group.”
NO. That is the Marxist’s mistake. Not all individuals fear being alienated from the group. In fact, there is class of people that this never can be true of. They are the independent individualists.
If there was one true characteristic of the founders of this country, and almost every citizen of it since that has made any true contribution to it, it is individualism—which is the uncompromising determination to do what is right even if one must defy the entire population of the world. The individualist does not change what he believes or his values or his way of life to get along with any group. He’ll get along with any group that’s going his way, but won’t change his way to go along with them.
The cultural Marxists hate individualists and individualism (that’s why they are called collectivists). Most sincere Christians are, in terms of their values and principles, uncompromising individualists. The cultural Marxists, as Antonio Gramsci clearly explained, understand it is Christian’s individualism that makes them immune to the concensus method to a new “frozen” collectivist culture (which Gramsci called hegemony), and therefor why it needs to be eliminated or neutalized. It wasn’t religion as such, but the kind of character some religion produces in its believers that the Marxists considered the enemy.
To suggest that this is all about Christianity and Christians is an insult to every freedom loving, principled, decent non-Christian, from Thomas Paine to Thomas Edison.
I admire Christians and Christianity and have written in their defense many times. Although I do not think they intend to, it is disappointing how often they go out of their way to insult those who are not Christains.
(glide625, mdmathis6—enjoyed your posts.)
Hank
O.K......a response will take some serious thought. Lunchtime.
snip: If there was one true characteristic of the founders of this country, and almost every citizen of it since that has made any true contribution to it, it is individualism
Spirited: The definition of man as an individual person has its’ only basis in the person of Jesus Christ who walked this earth as a man. If Jesus Christ had not walked this earth as an individual and called each member of His flock by their individual names, the monism of materialist-pantheism would have reduced all men to ‘oneness’ with nature. Individualism, btw, is a perversion of the definition of man as an individual.
snip: Can a Jew not hold and live by the principles this country was founded on? How about a hard working Japanese engineer, whose family was Shinto but does not himself have religion?
Spirited: Yes, of course. That said, it is resentment of Christianity in particular that drives the destruction of this once great civilization.
Two books I recommend to you:
William J. Federer’s “Back-Fired: A Nation Born for Religious Tolerance No Longer Tolerates Religion.” As Federer makes very clear, the one religion that is no longer tolerated is the that is the worldview foundation of America-—orthodox Christianity, particularly Protestanism.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s “America’s Real War,” in which he reveals that it is powerful Christianity-resenting atheistic-Jews behind so very much of this nation’s troubles. For writing this book, Lapin’s life has been threatened.