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A Strong Delusion (excellent)
American Thinkerp ^ | Glenn Fairman

Posted on 11/16/2016 5:07:42 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Because it is ideologically ill-disposed to understand the motives that inform human nature, socialism's grasp of the human sciences is mortally flawed. Thus, politics, culture, history, and economics are viewed through a warped prism that distorts the full depth of reality. But even though it is an audaciously evangelical worldview that seeks to mold and explain the totality of the entire human condition using solely materialist terms, the socialist model is surprisingly resilient to critique. To be sure, to the Left it has attained the quality of a secular faith, and the altruistic moral philosophy undergirding the science of the collective is deemed untouchable. Yea, even while its stunning failures invariably bring down governments and consign its critics to either public humiliation or re-education camps for the commission of its own peculiar vintage of blasphemy, its penchant to evoke fanaticism remains unabated. For this catechism of flesh, which has shut the skies to supplication, the only entreaty left to political man is the golden calf of the Universal Homogenous State.

Had socialism’s prime article of faith, “The Heavenly City wrestled down to Earth,” not appealed to the transcendent longing in man for a temporal version of celestial happiness, it would have no doubt gone the way of all failed political schemes

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1 posted on 11/16/2016 5:07:42 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Socialism is Satan’s vehicle for creating his own Eden. He doesn’t care that it doesn’t work because he wants an Eden of chaos, pain, and suffering.

That’s heaven for a sadist.


2 posted on 11/16/2016 5:13:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Spot on!


3 posted on 11/16/2016 5:14:37 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; RitaOK; Black Agnes; nopardons; PennsylvaniaMom; Fai Mao; ...

Ping


4 posted on 11/16/2016 5:15:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Excellent exegisis of the Gospel of Marx.


5 posted on 11/16/2016 5:20:52 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

As I read this my heart soared. Whoever this writer is s/he has the words and heart to make me sing. Thank god for people seeing what I see like this. I am thrilled.

And to think my friends think I am evil for voting for Trump. Little do they understand what we know.


6 posted on 11/16/2016 5:20:59 AM PST by Bodega (elective, therapeutic abortion sequelae)
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To: RoosterRedux

Very articulate and polished presentation. Bravo!


7 posted on 11/16/2016 5:24:52 AM PST by IronJack
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To: RoosterRedux

Now that we know that approx. 2/3 of anti-Trump
protestors and rioters didn’t even vote in the
presidential election, maybe those of us who did
vote should treat them with a civil indifference
because it’s legal and also because we don’t care.
All they have demonstrated is that they are not
willing and/or able to put as much into life as
they seem to expect to get out of tax-paying
American citizens.


8 posted on 11/16/2016 5:30:05 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Later


9 posted on 11/16/2016 5:31:40 AM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: RoosterRedux

Turned their backs on God again, but everybody longs for heaven...


10 posted on 11/16/2016 5:33:48 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: RoosterRedux

bump for later


11 posted on 11/16/2016 5:43:04 AM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yes we have known the left is delusional for quite some time. What is more disturbing is the delusions of the right. Ayn Rand, libertarianism, drug-advocacy, money-worship, Trump is the annointed one of God, etc. Once the right goes completely insane, there is no one opposing the delusional left.


12 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:16 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: Travis McGee

“exegisis”

Good word. Hadn’t seen that for a while.


13 posted on 11/16/2016 6:21:22 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Sea levels are rising- from liberal tears.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Chaos, pain, and suffering are a delight to the sadist, so long as the sadist is not engulf in pain and suffering personally. As we have seen on occasion, when the leftists fool is engulf in pain and suffering personally, there is an odd awakening which progresses in stages, and if allowed to continue to conclusion results in a more conservative mindset.

And THAT is why the fraudulent vote count continues and Soros pours money into ramping up the riots and chaos, so the herded masses of leftist victims/voters do not have moments of contemplation for their own pain and suffering caused by Soros and company agenda.

A more evil man alive on this planet would be hard to find ...

Personally, the 'strong delusion' reference is so deeply Biblical and tied to the Rapture and Great Tribulation that I cringe when a secular application of the phrase is attempted.

14 posted on 11/16/2016 7:16:06 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: RoosterRedux

For later.


15 posted on 11/16/2016 7:27:14 AM PST by stayathomemom ( Read Shadow Men, The Progressive Virus, and The Marxist Playbook by Dr. Anthony Napoleon)
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To: MHGinTN

The Sadist in this case is Satan.

All his minions who believe they will rule with him in hell have bought into his lie.

The use of the term “strong delusion” in this article is not secular.


16 posted on 11/16/2016 7:35:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

And it’s you know where for the rest of us. Yipes.


17 posted on 11/16/2016 8:25:27 AM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: equaviator

New Tagline


18 posted on 11/16/2016 9:22:36 AM PST by Kaslin (All those who say President elect Donald J. Trump is not their President, can all JUMP OFF A CLIFF!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

In every, single society Marxism has been tried, without exception it has failed and produced hardship and untold misery while stifling freedom.

And yet, diehard ideologues continue to embrace the Marxist fantasy with the lame and fantastical claim that ‘it’s never been done right’ - whatever that means, and it usually means whatever they want it to mean.


19 posted on 11/16/2016 9:28:29 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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Nice, and not really mean at all. In fact, I think it’s totally benign!


20 posted on 11/16/2016 11:54:47 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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