"Take god out of the equation,
and all you have left is social justice."
-- Daniel Greenfield
Daniel is especially brilliant today. This is not to be missed:
.... If there are no unique revelations, no special scriptures and no vital testaments... then each religion's identity becomes a formality, is reduced to a series of dubious traditions that don't really matter in the bigger picture. If all religions are equally valid, then they are also equally invalid....
In the absence of theology, the only religion that remains is the universal one of "being nice to other people". Take god out of the equation, and all you have left is social justice. Liberalization leads to secularization with the end result that religion becomes one gigantic "being nice to other people" project. And what is the best possible vehicle for social justice projects, but government. And so governments became gods. Their mission to build kingdoms of heaven on earth, utopias in which no one went hungry and which everyone was equally prosperous....
Posted by: Mannie Sherberg | Sunday, 07 November 2010 at 09:13 AM
Posted by: Tom Glennon | Sunday, 07 November 2010 at 03:18 PM